Dual-GPU Video Cards: They're Back!

Discussion in 'News and Article Comments' started by Anti-Trend, Dec 17, 2004.

  1. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    Some of us who've been in the PC gaming scene for a while now may remember the days of the dual-GPU versions of the (then) popular 3DFX Voodoo series cards. They were quite the power-house at the time, but were considered by many to be a bit on the excessive side. Well, those glory days are back, with Gigabyte's new offering: the Dual-GPU NV6600. According to Gigabyte, this baby will outperform both NVidia and ATI's current flagship products, while being priced significantly less than either. This is accomplished by using on-card SLI and 256mb of fast DDR3. Sweet!

    -AT
     
  2. ProcalX

    ProcalX all grown up

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    Yummy, I think i might sell my motherboard and get an SLI based one now :D and the NV6600 Gigabyte.
     
  3. Addis

    Addis The King

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    It would be cool to have a dual GPU 6800Ultra of a 6600 can outperform the current top range cards.
     
  4. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    At present, you'd need a multiprocessor system in order not to bottleneck on the CPU with a card any better than that. A dual-GPU 6800GT would just be wasteful until CPUs get better. :eek:
     
  5. Addis

    Addis The King

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    But then again this is only 1 single card with 2 GPUs not 2 separate cards which would probably cause a bottleneck. So Something high end like an A64FX 55 or higher would do the job without too many problems. However dual CPUs would be the best.
     
  6. ninja fetus

    ninja fetus I'm a thugged out gangsta

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    yes it will be bottlenecking, but it will still be a large performance increase over a single GPU.
     
  7. Anti-Trend

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    Yes, it'll be a large performance increase, but only at very high resolution, and/or with high antialiasing. Still, I wish I could afford something like that! :D
     

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