The First Quad SLI Benchmarks

An anonymous reader writes "X-bit labs have a preview of NVIDIA's Quad SLI system based on two GeForce 7900 GX2 cards. On each GeForce 7900 GX2 is allocated 512 MB of on-board memory, which is connected through a special bridge chip with 16X PCIe lanes to the other daughter card and the system. The two GPUs on the card work in SLI mode. The core and memory are clocked lower than a single GPU card at 550 MHz and 1.2GHz (DDR). For Quad SLI, NVIDIA has introduced a new mode of SLI, AFR of SFR where each card alternately renders a frame split between the two GPUs of one card after the other. The GX2 cards are benched (when possible) at resolution of 2560 by 1600 with 32X SLI AA and compared to a Crossfire x1900 XTX system on a variety of games."

Unlike CPU, dual GPU costs double

[LiquidCoooled]

Why is this?

Its obvious we expect more processing power, but the prices nowadays are silly.
Its also fucked up the benchmarking because you can't just look for the card your interested in, you have to check for it being in SLI or QSLI mode.

X-bit found a tit on that one, no?

[DrunkenTerror]

Twenty-seven pages? Gimme a fucking break. Think they're milking it a touch?

Re:X-bit found a tit on that one, no?

[suv4x4]

Twenty-seven pages? Gimme a fucking break. Think they're milking it a touch?

They are, and this is why when I see an article with more than 3 pages I just click the last page for the conclusions by habit.

I don't know why the editors think their readers can be arsed to click for a new page after each word, because it definitely doesn't work.

I wonder

[masterpenguin]

I wonder what percentage of people who will be running quad sli 7900's live in their parents basement.

Although I'm a college student, my experences are that once people graduate college(and are making the money to afford these toys), generally they realize what a waste of money it is to stay on the bleeding edge of PC Gaming tech

I don't know though, perhaps there is a larger market for these than I think.

very cool and all, but

[Prophetic_Truth]

This will be yester year's technology when the next architecture comes out. In the video card market new archs seem to happen every year. My new cap on video cards is $300/year. I got a 7900gt, you can do a voltage mod and buy a $30 cooler and by overclocking, get the same performance as a 7900gtx. They both use the exact same gpus. Google for guides

Re:Yeah, that all *SOUNDS* very impressive...

[m50d]

Erm, wtf? The driver shipped with the card plugs it into opengl and directx, the game outputs to those and doesn't care, and everything is happy.