NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 Exclusive Pics and Specs

[jydie]

Wow, what a BEAST! It will be to expensive for me to ever consider... besides, I am sure my power supply would fail within a few days if I tried to use this video card in my system.

I love reading about the high end cards and seeing what all they can do... but I only consider video cards at the $150 or less. I am hoping the 8800GT or HD3850 will drop to this range soon.

 

[Monkeywoman]

R680 Ftw!!!!!

 

[zOaib]

Wow what a waste of money. Why would you pay that much for a video card! My HD 3850 was 220$ with a 20$ rebate and I have a really slow cpu and I can max literally every game cept crysis. I just dont see the need for that much power.

this card is for enthusiasts ( crazy for the best ) and not for mainstream ( intelligent money spending ppl ) .

 

[MilkyWay]

im done with high expectations

i dont want a half baked tech that was thought of 15 years ago by 3dfx to keep a dying company going

i dont want them to just take last years tech decide that they can save money time and dupe people into buying it

if this is thier true next gen of cards a whole different jump like from 6000 series to 7000 series then i dont think it is enuf to just improve last year tech give it more amount of shaders and higher clock and presto new card

its like they said oh we cant be botherd making new cards this time

but if this is a step to the next level of tech then its just basicaly what ati done

 

[btarunr]

Just like memory vendors sell matched dual-channel memory kits, board-vendors should sell matching video-cards customised to the Crossfire / SLI setup for a price less than that of two cards bought seperately. That would be a good idea. Remember ATI sold an "Uber Edition" matched Crossfire kit of two Radeon X1950 cards in a trendy beifcase? Wasn't that a sell-out?

 

[ShadowFold]

this card is for enthusiasts ( crazy for the best ) and not for mainstream ( intelligent money spending ppl ) .

Im a mainstream gamer and love it

 

[craigwhiteside]

Just like memory vendors sell matched dual-channel memory kits, board-vendors should sell matching video-cards customised to the Crossfire / SLI setup for a price less than that of two cards bought seperately. That would be a good idea. Remember ATI sold an "Uber Edition" matched Crossfire kit of two Radeon X1950 cards in a trendy beifcase? Wasn't that a sell-out?

what an awesome idea, btarunr , that would make a lot of us happy, more performance and cheaper too

 

[LiveOrDie]

In games that support SLI twin 8800GT's will outperform a single 8800Ultra.

http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/13772/4

http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/13772/5

Unforntunately there is no Ultra in the graphs but considering its not that much quicker than a GTX (which is shown) it would still be slower than the GT SLI setup. (appologies as the link has numerous card setups so you really have to take a good look at the graphs to see which card is which.)

In the second link Timeshift shows a GT SLI Setup to be considerably faster than the GTX (so again a Ultra would slot somewhere in the middle) however in Bioshock the gap would be small to non - existant.

Yes thats what i said 2 8800GT will out outperform a 8800Ultra at low res but goin up in res the ultra still wins with the extra memory and fast clock speed, the 8800GT is made for low-med res gaming or high res gaming in DX9, but when it comes to the 8800GT and DX10 it can't handle the stran, and thats why the 8800GT is the cheapest 8800 out and the Ultra still at the top for now

 

[hugz]

I wish it was a single GPU vid.card with 256sp 1gb/512bit, now I'm not that interested =/

My GTX gives me 29fp in Crysis, 9800GX2 will bring only 10fps more, buahhhh

 

[HaZe303]

I wish it was a single GPU vid.card with 256sp 1gb/512bit, now I'm not that interested =/

My GTX gives me 29fp in Crysis, 9800GX2 will bring only 10fps more, buahhhh

Yeap.. Exactly what I was thinking. Im really dissapointed atm, I was looking forward to get a new gfx card in the near future. But as it seems now, my 8800GTX will do fine. I wont spend that much money for the low increase in performance I will get.

Edit: It feels like both Ati/Nvidia are abandoning the highend market?? I mean (old) g92 gpu´s as generation 9??? C´mon this is outrages, even for nvidia. My/Our only hope is now that ATI will come back to its glory days and give us something worth waiting for with R7 or R800? Im beginning to tire of Nv and their lack of respect for their paying customers. No im not joking.

 

[zCexVe]

I feel hot and smell driver errors .Two will heat a lot for that cooler.And SLi is age old from 3DFX ,will it keep to this?

 

[eidairaman1]

ONLY a 30% Increase from the 8800 Ultra, Man it seems like Nvidia is having manufacturing troubles now.

 

[eidairaman1]

Wow what a waste of money. Why would you pay that much for a video card! My HD 3850 was 220$ with a 20$ rebate and I have a really slow cpu and I can max literally every game cept crysis. I just dont see the need for that much power.

You call your System Slow, Try My specs, If i had the 1950 Pro around i could say something, but with the 3850 in tow from Sapphire and Powercolor, im not sure if i should go with one or build a totally new system. Hopefully sapphire will put a PCI Express powerline on the board instead of a twin molex gimmick.

 

[Krysonomous]

Too pricey

The price of the graphics cards are really not practical. Way, too expensive to tell you the truth. They should lower the prices to the level that would be competitive with PS3s, WIIs and XBoxes.

 

[a_ump]

dissapointed, but unknown

it says 30% better, but the GTS G92 was supposed to b better than the GTX and it is in some but mostly its slower. all this prediction and speculation is too annoying, as for the HD3870x2 (or w/e its called) y do people say i can't wait to see its benchmarks, all its supposed to b is 2 HD 3870's slapped together on one PCB, so crossfire on one PCB is how i c it. so i c it doin as good as the HD 3870 crossfire.and i thk it was said b4, the Ultra is almost 1 yr old and this 9800GX2 that's supposed to have "2 GPU's" and only 30% better. new tech and more gpu's come one at least like 50 or 60% better. and if it is only 30% better then that's goin to b about as good as GT's in SLI or GTS G92's in SLI, big dissapointment for me for next gen imo.good price for performance i guess, but i wish that this wasn't being said as the next flagship:-(

 

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

SLI = Slow Lame Implementation

 

[a_ump]

SLI = Slow Lame Implementation

yea its inferior to cf, and even though cf does a better job of improving fps over their own cards single performance, nvidia's cards r good enough by themselves that SLI's poorer(dont' thk that's a word)job of multi-gpu implementation doesn't really matter, but i certainly don't thinks its a bad idea or Slow Lame Implementation.though i would defiently rather have a single card solution, less heat, less pwr consumption(usually), but if there is no better card, which there isn't, and u got the money, then SLI is ur option.

 

[Krysonomous]

I am talking in general ofcourse. Relatively the prices are right but generally and in a practical sense it does not make sense. PS3 is also powered by NVidia. You could use the money to buy new games rather than new graphics cards. Imagine how much difference could there be between DX10 And DX10.1? By the way, the new ATI 38750 X2 also came out with dual gpu with 1Terabyte and selling at $449. It is competitive in price to Nvidia but still too expensive for a graphics card. I mean these should cost a lot lower than the computer itself.

 

[eidairaman1]

I am talking in general ofcourse. Relatively the prices are right but generally and in a practical sense it does not make sense. PS3 is also powered by NVidia. You could use the money to buy new games rather than new graphics cards. Imagine how much difference could there be between DX10 And DX10.1? By the way, the new ATI 38750 X2 also came out with dual gpu with 1Terabyte and selling at $449. It is competitive in price to Nvidia but still too expensive for a graphics card. I mean these should cost a lot lower than the computer itself.

From a Starting Price Point is better than the GTX, Ultra is just overpriced for what you get.

 

[KAMEHb]

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[btarunr]

Use English.