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coiler
13-02-08, 13:48
http://www.tcmagazine.com/images/news/Hardware/Nvidia_GeForce_9800_GX2_03.jpg

http://www.tcmagazine.com/images/news/Hardware/Nvidia_GeForce_9800_GX2_04.jpg

http://media.bestofmicro.com/1/D/73921/original/06Geforce9800GX2.jpg

http://www.tcmagazine.com/images/news/Hardware/Nvidia_GeForce_9800_GX2_06.jpg

Source : Tech Connect (http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=17490&catid=2)




Love the HDMI port!
nft99
13-02-08, 13:57
thats a big card :O
Jiggles
13-02-08, 14:02
WOAH!!! I thought that the 8800 models were big!!!
monkey56657
13-02-08, 23:14
Soon they will need to change the design else it will come out the other side of the case :lol:
marsey99
14-02-08, 15:16
hold on iv seen some of this card naked :D



http://www.techpowerup.com/img/08-01-28/1-1_thm.jpg

http://www.techpowerup.com/img/08-01-28/1-3_thm.jpg

http://www.techpowerup.com/img/08-01-28/1-5_thm.jpg

http://www.techpowerup.com/img/08-01-28/1-4_thm.jpg

http://www.techpowerup.com/img/08-01-28/1-7_thm.jpg

http://www.techpowerup.com/img/08-01-28/1-9_thm.jpg

http://www.techpowerup.com/img/08-01-28/1-11_thm.jpg
Lynx
14-02-08, 15:20
I thought it had 2 gpus on it? theres only one in the picture...
coiler
14-02-08, 16:04
Picture 2 is the top of the card, picture 3 the bottom, look at the semi circle shape it fits together with fan/heatsink in middle like a sandwhich 8)
Lynx
14-02-08, 16:17
Lol amd managed to get it all on one board :P
dtox
15-02-08, 16:08
any specifications available for the card yet?
alexnifty
19-02-08, 23:00
Lol amd managed to get it all on one board :P

Yup thats a reason why ATI's are cheaper, they use less material.


Im gonna be skipping this stupid GPU generation anyway. Its all just 8800 chips in SLi on one card. Next gen is current gen in Sli.
Sl4x0r
20-02-08, 14:27
Well - me an my X38 board are saving up for a pair of 3870X2 cards...
marsey99
21-02-08, 06:34
^^^^^and a 1k psu? :D
PeterStoba
21-02-08, 15:22
You wouldn't need 1000W, no were near
Sl4x0r
23-02-08, 11:49
Nah - I already have 750W PC Power & Cooling Quad crossfire certified PSU - I should be fine ;)
Hoodeddeathman
23-02-08, 14:10
wow
so those things will eat a pci express underneath it. and it takes 2 back plates right?
Broadsword1976
26-02-08, 05:29
Pure porn those piccies - I should be ashamed of the saliva dribbling into my keyboard. - Looks like I'll be dusting off and repainting some server cases just to fit those bad boys in. - Great uploads Coiler/Marsey99!
marsey99
26-02-08, 09:34
You wouldn't need 1000W, no were near

not quite a 1k but the 38x2 is the most power hungry card ever made and 2 well thats quite a bit of draw from the psu but a quadfire rated psu should do it.

post some benchies when you get it up and running as they will push out some massive numbers.

edit

nw broadsword, i think they are filth too :D

dam i wish i could afford 3, and a new mobo and psu and a quad to feed them and some ac to keep them cool.
wonderlust
26-02-08, 18:14
According to OCWORKBENCH the GX2 is to be delayed until 18th March 2008
Shawz
05-03-08, 09:14
any idea on price?
when will aria have them in stock?

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/03/05/nvidia_geforce_9800_gx2_caught_on_camera/1
00mike000
06-03-08, 16:42
each card has 1gb of gddr4 memory i think
wonderlust
07-03-08, 10:08
GeForce 9800 GTX to launch on 25 March

source www.ocworkbench.com
coiler
07-03-08, 10:21
Ooooooooooh, any benchmarks floating about yet?
wonderlust
07-03-08, 10:54
I thought I posted this earlier in the week! but may be I forgot!

also from ocworkbench

The GeForce 9 series will add another member soon and that is the GeForce 9800 GTX card.

This reference cards comes in a dimension of 4.376x10.5 inch. GPU is clocked at 675MHz while the Shader is at 1685MHz. It has a memory interface of 256 bits wide and incorporates 512MB of 0.8ns GDDR3.

The card supports 3 way SLI and it uses a reference design. Total power requirement for this card would be 168W.

The card supports DX10 and SM4.0.

Initial benchmark shows that this card performs similar to a GeForce 8800GTS. The difference in most games are merely 1 to 2 fps. It is quite disappointing to say for a new card that doesn't show much improvements over the previous 8 generation card.
coiler
07-03-08, 10:55
1 to 2 fps!

i'm waiting for the 11,000 GTX then
wonderlust
07-03-08, 11:03
Another piece of news is that 9800 GT will be announced on 3 April 2008. There is also a 9800 GTS. We presume that NVIDIA will announce more mid range and low end cards in the GeForce 9600/9500/9400 series in the upcoming months.
coiler
07-03-08, 11:09
sounds a bit pointless with the lack of fps increase
wonderlust
07-03-08, 11:23
perhaps just a move to rake in the £££s as people will always think that an nvidia 9800 is better than an Nvidia 8800
mac124
07-03-08, 17:32
might improve with newer drivers though, but yeah tis a bit disappointing.
wonderlust
07-03-08, 17:45
With AMTI not being too competitive why do they need to try too hard?

Reminds me of Intel P4s
Mul.
08-03-08, 12:30
Exactly. There's no sign of ATi relaeasing a single GPU successor to the 3870X2 and all that ATi did was die shrink their HD 2xxx's, added a few optimisations and refreshed them as HD 3xxx's. No reason for nVidia to jump the gun and release a single fast card.

The GeForce 9's will still sell and it'll be the price of them that will dictate the extent of the product range's popularity. For example, I can still see single PCI-E slot users buying a 9800GX2 despite it being a "bodged" solution, and depending on the price existing GeForce 7xxx and midrange 8xxx users may still buy a GeForce 9 style card.

All I can say is, if I were an early adopter of the 8800 series I'd be laughing so hard right now. It's been a seriously long time since a graphics card model has lasted so long as "high end".
wonderlust
08-03-08, 12:37
But for a person like me that normally runs a gen or 2 behind it means high costs to upgrade, having said that there is a B stock 8800GT for just over £100 inc that I have my eyes on :twisted:
PeterStoba
08-03-08, 17:07
My graphics card will last me 10months then i will upgrade again, no point now
wonderlust
08-03-08, 17:21
yeah? but your 8800GTS is a little more powerful than my 6800GT :p
theBishopp
08-03-08, 20:06
Exactly. There's no sign of ATi relaeasing a single GPU successor to the 3870X2 and all that ATi did was die shrink their HD 2xxx's, added a few optimisations and refreshed them as HD 3xxx's. No reason for nVidia to jump the gun and release a single fast card.

The GeForce 9's will still sell and it'll be the price of them that will dictate the extent of the product range's popularity. For example, I can still see single PCI-E slot users buying a 9800GX2 despite it being a "bodged" solution, and depending on the price existing GeForce 7xxx and midrange 8xxx users may still buy a GeForce 9 style card.

All I can say is, if I were an early adopter of the 8800 series I'd be laughing so hard right now. It's been a seriously long time since a graphics card model has lasted so long as "high end".

Hmmm... It looks like the 9xxx range is nothing more than a mild revision of the 8xxx series... pointless money spinning pap.

As for AMD not launching a successor to the 3870 x2? Try a whole new series - 4XXX - http://www.nordichardware.com/news,7356.html...

It seems to me, reading up about the gaming industry as a whole, and graphics hardware more specifically, that more powerful single cards are going to occur less frequently, but more and more GPUs appearing which are multiple cores on one or more PCBs... with rumours of AMD shifting the GPU onto the CPU, and (potentially, but some years off yet) Intel taking AMD's place as a discrete GPU manufacturer floating around it could all get quite messy. Having said that, a 3 way GPU race could make life interesting for the consumer. Maybe better, if they can keep to a general standard which makes it easy to code for all GPUs; maybe worse (although unlikely) if the hardware is significantly different between the manufacturers, leaving certain games only available for one to begin with or requiring complicated recoding to run on both/all 3...


edit - The 3XXX series is really what the 2XXX series should have been...
Mul.
08-03-08, 22:19
edit - The 3XXX series is really what the 2XXX series should have been...

Totally agree.

Pardon me, I wasn't aware of this information beginning to appear. Cheers

The specs do look fairly believable. The high end chips still seem to have 16 ROPs but the clock speeds are high and there's more TMU's. Assuming they've kept a similar architecture to the R6xx's, the top end's got 96 5 way shaders which is up from the HD 3870's 64. Now if it performs as good as it seems on paper, isn't a power hog and an electric heater with vacuum cleaner sound effects, ATi's got a winner up their sleeves :)

It's just End of Q2 seems to be quite close. Either the expected launch date is incorrect or ATi's done a good job keeping the new series secret. Anyway, we'll see how it pans out :D
Shawz
16-03-08, 00:25
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1331/nvidia_s_geforce_9800_gx2_early_test/index.html
Shawz
18-03-08, 02:05
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1335/geforce_9800_gx2_with_forceware_174_51/index.html

"SUMMARY: Shane made the promise that the 9800 GX2 would be re-visited once we got our hands on new drivers; well here it is!"

Link to all the articles

http://www.tweaktown.com/cat/visual/index.html