More on the 9800 GX2...
Let's be honest - the nVidia G80 (8800 GTX & Ultra) cards have been the top dogs for an unusually long time. Their supremacy is mostly due to a lack of competition from AMD/ATI (when will they settle on one name for that company?) Thankfully, nVidia has finally delivered some next-gen replacements for these venerable beasts.
The 9800 GX2 is a return to nVidia's dabblings with dual-GPU cards, which began with the somewhat-successful 7950 GX2. Initial reports on the 9800 GX2 is that a pair of 8800 GT 512's will beat it out at a lower price. The main selling point then is the possibility of running two GX2's in SLI mode for quad-GPU gaming. Only time and benchmarking will tell which games will respond well to this, but since TRI-SLI (which has been possible with the G80 cards since the 780i motherboards came out a little while ago) isn't a compelling deal yet, I'm skeptical about the near-term usefulness of dual-GX2s. Things will be much clearer as the cards get benchmarked.
The 9800 GX2 is a return to nVidia's dabblings with dual-GPU cards, which began with the somewhat-successful 7950 GX2. Initial reports on the 9800 GX2 is that a pair of 8800 GT 512's will beat it out at a lower price. The main selling point then is the possibility of running two GX2's in SLI mode for quad-GPU gaming. Only time and benchmarking will tell which games will respond well to this, but since TRI-SLI (which has been possible with the G80 cards since the 780i motherboards came out a little while ago) isn't a compelling deal yet, I'm skeptical about the near-term usefulness of dual-GX2s. Things will be much clearer as the cards get benchmarked.
posted by Thomas Glen at
11:20 AM
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