Nvidia's headlining GeForce 9 series card, the monstrous 9800 GX2, officially launched today. It pulls an old trick out of Nvidia's hat—melding two GPUs onto a single board—so you can actually go quad-SLI for a mere $1200. It completely crushes ATI's top-of-the-line dual-GPU Radeon HD 3870 X2. But is two times the GPU necessarily two times the awesome? It's running the same GPU series as the 9600 GT, 8800 GT and 8800 GTS 512MB (not be confused w/ the regular 8800 GTS). Actually when you look closely at the number of shader and stream processors and their clock speeds, it turns out the 9800 GX2 is basically two slightly underclocked 8800 GTS 512MB GPUs strapped together, and this plays out in the virtually indistinguishable benchmarks too. Here's the rub: The 9800 GX2 is over 600 smackers. You can run two 8800 GT cards in SLI at $200 a pop and get almost the exact same performance for $200 less. So the real conclusion is that the 8800 GT is still the best card out there for the money.
id like to see this in a quad-SLI setup running in a system with a top of the line QX quad core intel processor and around 6 gigs of ram... maybe with a setup like that i could actually play crysis.
Holly crap, I want one of these bad boys on my computer. But it's wayyyyy to expensive like you said.
tooo gigantic lmao... you need a big case.. big power supply to use for sure... i rather stay with a 3870x2 instead cheaper.. smaller.. good enoguh
that is one powerful beast....I think I'll wait for the price to drop a bit before I get my new comp with this
graphics card are just getting stupid. i got a ATI 1950 Pro and thats more than enough for me, plus im still running in PCI-Express
ye its way to expensive and large but wait a few years and as technology develops it will go down a lot in price and size. like to see them try to get one of these graphics cards into a laptop.
its only slightly bigger than the x2 9800GX2 - 267mm x 111mm x 41mm (WxDxH) 3870 X2 - 266mm x 112mm x 34mm
LMFAO..... well then..... ill wait another couple years and see where nvidia stand... it's too pricy and the power consumption it would take....... jesus...
lol wait a few years and the 10000 series of nvidia cards will be out, then you'll be like 'hmm i guess il just wait a few more years'
lol, isn't that basically the real thing. it will just defeat the point of a game unless its like a virtual reality one where u don't die but feel all the pain.
