4x7800GT in SLI

[Elfear]

I didn't see this one coming for awhile. Not much yet but they have a few benchmarks here. FEAR gets pummeled by these cards. Other results are not as impressive.

 

[RichUK]

:shocked: .. lol external power supplies they must milk some serious power, and whats with the dual VGA holes on the GFX card back plate .. air holes right

The heat sink looks quality as well.

 

[RichUK]

English Translation

 

[otispunkmeyer]

weeee here asus goes again.... these cards are like the bugatti veyron, the result of an exercise to prove it can be done. what was that one before than had 4 seperate cards.....dayum!.

"The map does not get itself the river over the PC power pack, a separate current supply externally at the screen is attached" great translation lol!

 

[CP5670]

Awesome. FEAR actually gets doubled performance with this setup even over one of those monster cards.

"Two ugly stripping from the mouth hang the thick Stromfressern"

:laugh:

 

[vanvock]

Thanx RichUK. That translation is something of to be more desired.

 

[ddogg]

Wonder what happened to that quad GTX system that was spotted on HKPEC.

 

[SynthDude2001]

wow...

 

[sisq0kidd]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001
wow...

 

[gi0rgi0]

Thats the shizzle...!!!

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: gi0rgi0
Thats the shizzle...!!!

Fo Shizzay

 

[h7o]

Each has its own AC adapter :Q

 

[mwmorph]

79.6 extra watts from each power adapter, 77watts for each pci-e slot. holy ******. much be limited though. quake 4 performancei s slower than 2x7800gtx. 3dmark05 isnt all that impressive either.

 

[Ackmed]

No SLI bridge? Would probably make it faster.

 

[TecHNooB]

Yea, the sli bridge would definitely help.. they probably couldnt get it to work for some reason. 3DMark05 score looks hideous =/ approx. 11000-12000. The 512's are around 14000?

 

[nRollo]

This is the kind of stuff I like to see companies come out with. Not because I'll buy it new, but because at some point down the road it will be priced within the realm of the middle classes, and then it will be fun to try.

 

[Goi]

So does that mean that FEAR is mostly GPU bound while Quake4 is gonna be CPU bound with the next gen ultra high end cards? A pity they didn't test it with more games

 

[necro007]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: gi0rgi0
Thats the shizzle...!!!

Fo Shizzay

To right...

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: TecHNooB
Yea, the sli bridge would definitely help.. they probably couldnt get it to work for some reason. 3DMark05 score looks hideous =/ approx. 11000-12000. The 512's are around 14000?

A pair of 512MB 7800GTX's score about 13,300 with an FX-57. If it's not software related, I'll bet the low scores in 3DMark05 are because of cpu overhead from SLI. Get someone with a phase-change cooled FX-57 to run those cards and I'll bet the score would go up a ton. I know I gained 3000 points going from 2.0GHz to 2.9GHz with only a pair of 7800GTs.

 

[destrekor]

wow back to the days of the 3dfx voodoo 5 6000 series with the external psu and all lol

 

[Corporate Thug]

where can i get one?

 

[Wentelteefje]

Anyone of you guys knows this one...? Pre-overclocked to 700/1600MHz... It doesn't look as impressive as those two-GT's-in-one, but it needs its own external 80W PSU too...

EDIT: "Stromfressern" means literally "power eaters", so it's an indication on how much power these actually need...

 

[potato28]

:Q :Q :Q :Q :Q!!!

 

[RampantAndroid]

My goodness...I didn't know if the Asus card would work in SLI...it does! And looks one heck of a lot more gracefull at it than Gigabyte's dual 6800GT does!

I wouldn't mind the external powerbrick.

How long until dual core GPUs I wonder?

 

[Goi]

I don't think dual core lends itself that well to GPU architecture since graphics processing is almost infinitely parallel anyway, so GPUs can just have as many rendering pipelines as they can cram into the chip and still have them scale extremely well. There's no point in dual core if you can put it in a single core.