Dual 7900 GTX graphic card at CeBIT

[Darksaber]

NVIDIA will be showing off a graphic card with 2 GPUs on one PCB, making it possible to put 2 together for "Quad SLI". We have seen a machine from Dell already, which had 4 graphic cards, but with this everyone (with the right amount of pocket change) can buy 2 of these and run them in SLI. Great, now the graphics subsystem will not only cost more than the entire PC itself, but more than my car too. ATI will surely pull out something like that sometime soon as well, to steal some of NVIDIAs thunder.

Source: TheINQ (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30025)

[wtf8269]

Again I say this is all getting out of hand.:shadedshu

[Polaris573]

My car only cost $1100. So yeah, a four GPU setup could easily cost more than it.

[KennyT772]

yeah this is crazy...thing is you probly wont get an increase in frames until 5 years from now when games need 5gb of vram and 20gb of system ram...

[FLY3R]

Seems overkill to me but remeber what seemed overkill one year ago is just average now. I think this is great becuase it will only lower the prices of other cards and continue to make both companys compeative.

[trog100]

the real story here is dual chips on one card.. in other words sli or c/f without needing to buy two bloody cards..

if it follows the same patern as with CPUs a single dual card should give good performance without costing more than double money..

high end cards will be dual chip.. low end single chip.. and more than one card needs to go the way it did before.. die off.. its a stupid idea in the first place.. he he he

trog

[Thermopylae_480]

Considering my car only cost $800, my computer already cost more than my car and I don't even have the best card money can buy or SLI/CF. :shadedshu

[15th Warlock]

Will this be a 1 GB video card? I mean, each 7900GTX GPU is supposed to address 512MBs of RAM, so, a dual GPU card = 1 GB video card?
Not that having 2 of this cards in SLI will mean you have over 2 GBs of frame buffer, as each GPU can access "only" 512 MBs at a time, but damn, that would give the owner of one of this rigs some bragging rights :eek:

[Steven B]

yeah 1 gig is hwat im thinking

[zekrahminator]

quad SLI? why invest in quad SLI when all you need is a single GPU? :laugh: . Another funny thing...AGP will never die out because cards today barely even use all the bandwidth provided in AGP4X :roll: . Of course, PCIe is better then AGP 8X because AGP 8X the card can have a "2 lane highway" to the CPU, but still...not the greatest framerate gain :D.

[15th Warlock]

quad SLI? why invest in quad SLI when all you need is a single GPU? :laugh: . Another funny thing...AGP will never die out because cards today barely even use all the bandwidth provided in AGP4X :roll: . Of course, PCIe is better then AGP 8X because AGP 8X the card can have a "2 lane highway" to the CPU, but still...not the greatest framerate gain :D.

Of course AGP will die (like all other buses have died before, ISA, PCI, and after that, AGP), but not as fast as Ati, nVidia or Intel would have liked it to happen...
About the bandwidth thing, there already are applications that take advantage of the extra bandwidth found in PCIe, like hardware encoding and decoding of H264 video, and when HD formats as HD-DVD or BluRay disks become mainstream, the bandwidth available for AGP won't be good enough anymore...

[TooFast]

wow soon we will be taking a loan to buy a computer

[Polaris573]

wow soon we will be taking a loan to buy a computer

I doubt that. Just because it's extremely expensive now doesn't mean prices will never drop.

[trog100]

quad is just a bragging rights publicity thing.. but i think tommorows high end cards will be dual gpu as the norm.. a single dual gpu card will be enough for most folks.. hopefully.. he he..

i dont see any real reason they should cost any more than todays overpriced single gpu high end cards..

its just become easier to use multiple gpus than try and make single ones go faster.. just like with cpus..

trog