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- LordSkywalker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11That card is so goddamn massive. It's like a second motherboard.
- japroach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8You call that a card?
This is a card: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_5_6000 - killerofkiller, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7/orgasm
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah, it uses a 32 lane PCI Express switch on board too. Pretty serious circuit design there...
- leftfield, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Looks like the daughterboard trend is coming back around.
- MasterChi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Anyone have information if this will support Direct X10 or not? If not then I think I will stick with the 8800GTX.
- Smeed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A dual GPU card seems to be released with every generation of new cards and it never does well.
- graemee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31000 W Power supply not included....
- ScottJG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4For a second there in the first pic I thought the robot behind the card was a real person. I was like "wow I knew graphics cards were getting big but...."
- mirunit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A BIT late. Nvidia did this with the 7950 X2 last year, at at this point the X1950 is outdated as it is not DX10/Unified Shader - but an 8800GTX until ATI comes out with their DX10 cards.
- gfreeman223, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Um, there is absolutely no reason at all for anyone to buy this card in this day and age where 8800 GTX and GTS cards are readily available...
It's like if someone invented the world's fastest coal and steam powered car. The world's best steam powered car is not going to be able to come close to the next generation of technology, aka internal combustion gasoline cars in terms of power and convinience. For the sake of fairness, I will admit I'm the happy owner of a 8800 GTX - lifeandtimes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2No, it does not.
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Exactly. At more than what the 8800GTS costs, this card is absolutely useless, especially considering how huge it is.
- Confusinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A spy? Wow... and he/she uses flash on his/her camera? Okay...
- lifeandtimes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yawn, a single nvidia geforce 8800 GTX outperforms crossfired X1950 XTXs. Sure, its a little more than $100 compared to the rumored cost of this card that radeon is going to make, but for the $100 you have to spend in extra you get a card that can run DirectX 10 apps.
- pinesol101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1With expansion slot cards starting to being that large, i think we may need to revise a new standard on how close each card can be together.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I recently switched my gf7950GX2 card (really 'cards') for an 880GTS for this very reason. Most cases simply can't accommodate these new dual-GPU monster cards!!
- HonoredMule, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1RTA, or at least the bloody article description. Sapphire is doing this, not ATI/AMD
- soogy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I miss 3dfx. They were so far ahead of their time. Not just with hardware; look at Diablo II for example. The effects in that game's Glide mode couldn't be mimicked completely until DirectX 9.
- Brandoskey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1how inefficient!
instead of putting two power hungry gpu's on one board, why not work on creating a much more power efficient gpu that doesn't require its own nuclear reactor? - khyberkitsune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You do realize this performance gain is almost purely because at the practical level the 8800 has like, more than 128 processors inside, right? Remember, this was a HUGE design change for nVidia. They made a different hierarchy of processors in this change, and these processors can effectively switch between a few modes to leave the mains ready for the hardcore stuff.
- tallonx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very nice ^o^
- lifeandtimes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You could be right, or it could be the fact that directx 10 has a unified shader system. No more vertex or pixel shaders, just one shader that can handle both. So, yes, it does have more processors, faster core clock, and faster memory clock, but the point still holds...why would anyone buy this new card when they know its huge, slow, and doesn't support directx 10? Why any company would waste money developing this card, I don't know.
- AkatsukiNoTobi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Why can't AMD/ATI just concentrate on releasing the R600 sooner. It's bad enough the card has been delayed for over 2 months, and now they show inferior products like this. =/
- tgunner, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1I for one welcome our new dual GPU video card / space heater overlords.
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