techreport.com — Review and benchmarks of NVIDIA's 7950 GX2 - a pair of circuit boards, 2 GPUs and 2 sets of memory chips, an "SLI setup on a stick", which fits in the same PCI Express space as other top-end graphics cards. Although DIYers are prevented by NVIDIA from doing Quad SLI with 2 of them, it's still a monster performer that uses less power than expected.
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bleakvoidJun 6, 2006
I'm going to go ahead and wait some more...though count me in once the 8xxx series hits. The engineer I talked to said that "the 8000-series cards are going to be faster than these ones coming out [the 7800 GTX at the time]; massively parallel, with almost the same clock rate" which I'm guessing means they're going to have quite a few extra pixel and vertex pipelines, possibly at the cost of clock speed.(quick anecdote: I was on a physics field trip last year to Great America, which is about 15 minutes from their Silicon Valley headquarters...apparently, a few of the engineers had gotten together for a day at the park. He was wearing an nVidia shirt, so I asked him about it.)
lamentJun 6, 2006
"It's a stopgap... just like when Intel stuck two P4 chips on one package and called it dual core."dual core is 2 processors in one core, not "two P4 chips on one package"
nanostuffJun 6, 2006
In the real world there are people who have more money than you and can afford to spend $600 or even $1200 on a video card without much financial hassle. I'm sure you didn't think of that.
Closed AccountJun 7, 2006
Well, Presler, the 65nm, is literally two seperate dies on one package, and is called the Pentium D.
matt_rubinJun 8, 2006
wow get some enjoyment in life if u haven't noticed this is a good place for serious talk and joke we like to joke .. now
kupotekJun 8, 2006
Got my 7600Gt for 175 bones at newegg and am quite happy. Buying one of these cards is a waste though, especially when things are going to change very fast very soon.