NVIDIA GeForce 7950GX2 Benchmarks 51
An anonymous reader writes "On June 6, NVIDIA will launch what it calls 'the fastest single graphics card' on the planet, capable of running 40% faster than the current GeForce 7900GTX. Dailytech has benchmarks and specifications of the card already." From the Dailytech article: "GeForce 7950GX2 takes two GeForce 7900GTX boards, and joins them via 32 PCIe lanes. 16 additional lanes are routed to the motherboard out to the PCIe adaptor. The GeForce 7900GX2 was designed specifically for OEM system builds and as a result nothing was compromised for performance. However, GeForce 7950GX2 is designed to be the retail component, and as such a few things needed tweaking for retail sales."
The numbers and suffices, oh my... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The numbers and suffices, oh my... (Score:2)
Are they counting singly, by decimal? In that case 49. They clearly aren't using octal since we're up to 7950, but if we allow hex you've got 73. Then again, hex might seem to conflict with the letters, so let's stick with decimal.
Assuming that we can have up to three letters after the name (more would be just silly, don't you think?), you'd get 26^3 more possibilities, so you have 17576 possibilities for each number. However, we have to allow for single and double letter combos,
Only True Next Gen Chips can go 8XXX (Score:2)
Fastest single graphics card... (Score:5, Insightful)
o_O
Re:Fastest single graphics card... (Score:2)
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It's also important to note that the SLI bridge is not present on the 7950GX2.
And further down:
Even though the card is designed for QUAD SLI, there will be no four-GPU support at the time of launch with the 7950GX2 due to driver constraints.
Thats one hell of a software driver which can fabricate missing hardware!
Re:Fastest single graphics card... (Score:2)
Not two seperate cards that require seperate PCI Express slots.
Re:Fastest single graphics card... (Score:2)
GeForce 7950GX2 takes two GeForce 7900GTX boards, and joins them via 32 PCIe lanes.
So, yeah, its technically on one board, but its really just two cards thinking they are in SLI.
Re:Fastest single graphics card... (Score:2)
Cost (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Cost (Score:1)
It's like two 7900GTs, not 7900GTXs. (Score:5, Informative)
7950GX2: 500MHz core, 1024MB @ 600MHz memory $600
7900GTX: 650MHz core, 512MB @ 800MHz memory $500
It's not two 7900GTXs, it's a pair of 7900GTs with extra memory, coming out of the same quality of chip yield, not the one-in-however-many GPUs that can be stably clocked up to GTX levels.
Plus, the lower clock means much lower cooling requirements and power consumption, with corresponding cost reduction.
Not a bad idea, really.
Re:It's like two 7900GTs, not 7900GTXs. (Score:1)
I guess it's just a
Never happened before (Score:5, Funny)
My god, this is so unprecedented.
Re:Never happened before (Score:2)
It should read "Fastest card out right now" or "Fastest card we have ever tested" would be accurate. But when you bring "the planet" into the equation this thing should be Above and Beyond fast(er) than every thing else out there. It is technically right... until next month.
Bah! (Score:5, Insightful)
Why should I go spending ridiculous amounts of money (more than my PC cost) just for some silly games, especially since it's like pulling teeth to get current higher-end GPUs supported under anything but MS operating systems?
It seems to be much more economical to simply play games on a console, especially since it seems that many media/game/other content providers insist on the newer cards simply for the DRM enforcement.
Don't get me wrong, I prefer gaming on a PC compared to a game console, but not anywhere near enough to sink that much cash into a GPU, nor add all the DRM that seems increasingly to be required to play current generation games on a PC.
Guess I'll stick to my old games and GPU that still work very well, thankyou. For the money saved alone, I could buy a nice guitar (or 2!).
Cheers!
Strat
Re:Bah! (Score:4, Insightful)
my PCI card still beats the best integrated! (Score:1)
Re:Bah! (Score:2)
Re:Bah! (Score:1)
Re:Bah! (Score:2)
More Like 5-6 Years (Score:2)
This is probably part of the reason for the delay this year and lack of readyness by Sony. They are not only having huge technical issues to work out
Re:Bah! (Score:2, Insightful)
I'm happy driving my '94 Ford Probe!
It doesn't mean they should stop making Ferraris and Aston Martins.
Re:Bah! (Score:3, Interesting)
It doesn't mean they should stop making Ferraris and Aston Martins.
Rich people have to put their money somewhere. If they didn't, the economy would stagnate.
Luxury items are a major avenue of wealth dispersal.
Re:Bah! (Score:4, Insightful)
I've never had any problems getting any NVidia GPU to work flawlessly under Linux.
Yeah, the closed-source aspect of NVidia's drivers may be annoying to some, but I don't mind closed-source drivers if they're high enough quality, and NVidia's drivers are one of the few examples of closed source software with high quality. (The associated closed-source games for Linux, specifically iD Software's products, comprise most of the other examples...)
Face it - due to patent issues out of the chipset manufacturers' control (classic example being S3 Texture Compression - S3TC was the beginning of ATI's transition from fully documented open source drivers to binary-only drivers with the open-source versions lacking critical features for 3D gaming), no chipset manufacturer can release open source drivers that support their card's full feature set, unless their card's feature set is massively crippled. (See Intel GMA-series integrated graphics as an example.)
Re:Bah! (Score:2)
I've never had any problems getting any NVidia GPU to work flawlessly under Linux.
Yeah, the closed-source aspect of NVidia's drivers may be annoying to some, but I don't mind closed-source drivers if they're high enough quality, and NVidia's drivers are one of the few examples of closed source software with high quality. (The associated closed-source games for Linux, specifically iD Software's products, comprise most of the other examples...)
Face it - due to patent issues out of the chipset ma
Re:Bah! (Score:2)
Nvidia doesn't claim this, by the way. They claim that writing drivers is simply 'too complex' for the free software community to help with it. Which not only misses the point entirely, but is just l
Re:Bah! (Score:2)
You forget that it's possible to LICENSE someone else's patents. That is, you are given permission to legally use their patents under certain conditions.
For whatever reason, those conditions have apparently required closed source drivers. I don't know about NVidia's excuse, but this was ATI's reasoning for no longer providing full specifications of their chipsets.
Re:Bah! (Score:1)
You must not have seen the estimated cost of the PS3.
Re:Bah! (Score:3, Insightful)
Well, clearly you're not part of the target market if your entire PC (just one?) cost less than $600, so the answer is doubtless "you shouldn't".
Sure, which is why there are plenty of cheaper cards. Isn't the market clever, covering a wide range of income and interest bra
Re:Bah! (Score:2)
Well, clearly you're not part of the target market if your entire PC (just one?) cost less than $600, so the answer is doubtless "you shouldn't".
Actually, that's my high-end box. My others are network servers and such, old P2s and P3s and the like. I agree, I shouldn't.
"Don't get me wrong, I prefer gaming on a PC compared to a game console, but not anywhere near enough to sink that much cash int
Re:Bah! (Score:1)
1) There is nothing stopping you from using a modern graphics card on a non-MS operating system. The GeForce 7-series cards work perfectly well under BSD, Solaris or Linux - using 2D-only Free drivers or proprietary 3D drivers. Infact, chances are you could swap your current card over with zero reconfiguration (depending on the card. A new nvidia-glx release might be required).
2) DRM enforcement... What? Have you considered basing your posts on reality? Whether a g
Re:Bah! (Score:2)
But I personally love new games with impressive, high-powered graphics, and I am willing to pay to get a good framerate. Furthermore, the vertex and fragment shaders (which aren't available on the geforce2) are very fun to play around with from a development perspective.
I currently have a geforce 6800 ultra which I bought at least 1 year after the card came out. I'd never buy one of these things brand new (I ma
Re:Bah! (Score:2)
Guess I'll stick to my old games and GPU that still work very well, thankyou. For the money saved alone, I could buy a nice guitar (or 2!).
Then you're not a PC gamer. If you're in to guitars, then saving for a guitar is money better spent for you. On the other hand, for th
Re:Bah! (Score:2)
Guess I'll stick to my old games and GPU that still work very well, thankyou. For the money saved alone, I could buy a nice guitar (or 2!).
Then you're not a PC gamer. If you're in to guitars, then saving for a guitar is money better spent for you. On the other hand, for th
leaks (Score:1)
But really, why? (Score:1)
nobody (Score:2, Insightful)
It's the nature of the beast, we live in a society where you need to "keep making money" in ord
Re:But really, why? (Score:1)
Fine by me (Score:2)
I can play oblivion on medium quality with my 6600gt, 768mb, athlon64 3400 rig.
Wake me up when... (Score:1)
Your not looking hard enough (Score:2)
Re:Wake me up when... (Score:2)
I dunno about power consumption (My box is 420w... 2gb of DDR-400 ram, Athlon64 3500+, 2 160gb SATA-2 HDD, 2 16xDVD burners. I'd say that I could throw in quite a bit more before I got up to 420w, but I can't say for sure.
If your box can handle it, though-- the 7900GT is a great card. This 7950GX2 is basically just 2 7900GT's in one board, from what I understand.