Graphic Cards Nvidia to sell their GeForce 7950 GX2 as a single card

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NVIDIA PLANS to sell its upcoming, doubled-up, if shorter, Geforce 7950 GX2 cards as a single card. You will of course be able to buy two of them for use in Quad SLI, but a single card will work happily on its own. It should settle down at around the €/$600+ price and should be announced on the last day of May, the 31st, of course.

We think Nvidia can really give ATI a run for its money here, as it plans to position a two-chip single card against ATI's top-of-the-line Radeon X1900XTX. The Geforce 7950 GX2 card will roughly cost the same or it might end up little more expensive than ATI's but it will certainly outperform a single-chip Radeon X1900 XTX.

It won't be a cheap card to produce but it sure has all the chance of being the fastest one.

So, if you were thinking about buying two 7900 GTX cards, you might want to hold your breath for two more weeks and buy a two-chip, two-PCB 7950 GX2 for just a little bit more money.
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Nvidia to flog GeForce 7950 GX2 as a single card

 
Wow, wow, wow, ATi fanboys ??

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Manufacturers have already started to get their 7950GX2 graphics cards from NVIDIA. These are the cards capable of Quad SLI. The lengh of these cards have been reduced to 22.5cm from the 33.5cm of the 7900GX2 cards first shown when NVIDIA displayed Quad SLI. The card will have an SLI bridge connector (not shown in the picture above) allowing users to SLI 2 of these for Quad. Specs of each card which consists of 2 boards: 500MHz Core and 600MHz GDDR3 1.4ns 512MB Memory on each board.
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What use?

Even the GX2 cant do HDR+AA.

Plus, the XTX in Crossfire beats the 7900GX2 in more than half the test's.

7950GX2 = Smaller version of the 7900GX2. So you can expect the same performance. Nothing more.
Unless nVidia really improves the Drivers, no use going quad sli.
 
All these slap on an extra GPU methods are a waste... especially considering the fact that it still has all the limitations of the G7x series.
 
Lets wait and see how GeForce 8800GTX fares..:) ATi cards are still costlier than nVidia in India. Hope they bring the temperatures and prices....:ohyeah:
 
^^ Um?

Taking into consideration, the same performance.. Plus the added HDR+AA to ATI cards... i can come up with this..

7900GTX = 500$.

X1900XTX = 500$.

7900GT is for 300$

X1800XT is for 300$

I dont see how ATi cards are more expensive?

Edit : Didnt read india. My bad :P.
 
It may not be... but its more then enough for ATI to start thinking on same lines or slash product prices... I mean CF Edition Retail Card mostly goes for $500 or more and when you get Dual-Gpu[Even tho its not so good] card for $600, which out-performs ATI, there is some pressure. I hope to win the battle, as in after Slashed Prices :D
 
Harshal said:
It may not be... but its more then enough for ATI to start thinking on same lines or slash product prices... I mean CF Edition Retail Card mostly goes for $500 or more and when you get Dual-Gpu[Even tho its not so good] card for $600, which out-performs ATI, there is some pressure. I hope to win the battle, as in after Slashed Prices :D
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Agrees with u completely. But ATI's flagship still beat nVs new card in most benchies.
 
Plus, the XTX in Crossfire beats the 7900GX2 in more than half the test's.
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Jeez, your supposed to compare CF benchmarks to Quad SLi ones...:|

shado_chazzer_killer said:
Agrees with u completely. But ATI's flagship still beat nVs new card in most benchies.
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^^ :rofl: if you read the info I gave, the "New Card" has 2 processors on it, so how can a single ATi card beat it ?

Chaos said:
All these slap on an extra GPU methods are a waste... especially considering the fact that it still has all the limitations of the G7x series.
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Some things never change :P

But yeah, it does have limitations, but who wouldn't want 2 Proccy's for $100 more ?

Plus the option of QSLi is always there..:ohyeah:
 
Anish said:
Jeez, your supposed to compare CF benchmarks to Quad SLi ones...:|
^^ :rofl: if you read the info I gave, the "New Card" has 2 processors on it, so how can a single ATi card beat it ?
Some things never change :P

But yeah, it does have limitations, but who wouldn't want 2 Proccy's for $100 more ?

Plus the option of QSLi is always there..:ohyeah:
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Here is the logic...

nVidia IQ = Crap
So
7950 = Twice the crap...
And you are suggesting that you would like to go in for Quad Crap :P...

Anyways... Coming to the point... No denying its a great price but what will one do with so much raw power when you can have better IQ with something Cheaper.. Also Investig $600 as of now in a nVIDIA GPU is a waste of money as the DX 10 artitechture is more comfortable with ATI then nVIDIA...
 
What's the point of Quad SLI?? It has been beaten by Crossfire thoroughly....

Unless nvidia improve driver support massively, then QSLI will continue to be a waste :P
 
lord_nemesis said:
Lets wait and see how GeForce 8800GTX fares..:) ATi cards are still costlier than nVidia in India. Hope they bring the temperatures and prices....:ohyeah:
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You said it pal... my thoughts exactly... the X1800 is decent VFM now :ohyeah:
 
Anish said:
Jeez, your supposed to compare CF benchmarks to Quad SLi ones...:|

^^ :rofl: if you read the info I gave, the "New Card" has 2 processors on it, so how can a single ATi card beat it ?

Some things never change :P

But yeah, it does have limitations, but who wouldn't want 2 Proccy's for $100 more ?

Plus the option of QSLi is always there..:ohyeah:
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Its not always necessory that a dual core card beats a single core card. Just for eg. a A64 beat a x2 3800/4200 in almost every gaming benchies. Dual core is needed if ur powering up a 32" LCD. And this is the truth Quad core is a absolute waste of money.

Switch said:
Here is the logic...

nVidia IQ = Crap

So

7950 = Twice the crap...

And you are suggesting that you would like to go in for Quad Crap ...

Anyways... Coming to the point... No denying its a great price but what will one do with so much raw power when you can have better IQ with something Cheaper.. Also Investig $600 as of now in a nVIDIA GPU is a waste of money as the DX 10 artitechture is more comfortable with ATI then nVIDIA...
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Agrees with u completely.
 
shado_chazzer_killer said:
Its not always necessory that a dual core card beats a single core card. Just for eg. a A64 beat a x2 3800/4200 in almost every gaming benchies. Dual core is needed if ur powering up a 32" LCD. And this is the truth Quad core is a absolute waste of money.
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Its Dual-GPU not Dual Core ;)

And where does a X2 beat a single core A64 ?
 
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