Dual-GPU Video Cards: They're Back!

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Nonconformist Geek
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!

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Yummy, I think i might sell my motherboard and get an SLI based one now :D and the NV6600 Gigabyte.
 
It would be cool to have a dual GPU 6800Ultra of a 6600 can outperform the current top range cards.
 
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:
 
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.
 
yes it will be bottlenecking, but it will still be a large performance increase over a single GPU.
 
ninja fetus said:
yes it will be bottlenecking, but it will still be a large performance increase over a single GPU.
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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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