7950 GX2 coming in 2 weeks

[imported_X]

I first heard about the 7950 a couple days ago. Sounds like it will be the new king, at a relatively competitive price (for today's standards anyway):

NVIDIA PLANS to sell its upcoming, doubled-up, if shorter, Geforce 7950 GX2 cards as a single card. You will of course be able to buy two of them for use in Quad SLI, but a single card will work happily on its own. It should settle down at around the ?/$600+ price and should be announced on the last day of May, the 31st, of course.

We think Nvidia can really give ATI a run for its money here, as it plans to position a two-chip single card against ATI's top-of-the-line Radeon X1900XTX. The Geforce 7950 GX2 card will roughly cost the same or it might end up little more expensive than ATI's but it will certainly outperform a single-chip Radeon X1900 XTX.

It won't be a cheap card to produce but it sure has all the chance of being the fastest one.

So, if you were thinking about buying two 7900 GTX cards, you might want to hold your breath for two more weeks and buy a two-chip, two-PCB 7950 GX2 for just a little bit more money.

(Inquirer article)

 

[RyanVM]

Of course, a 7900GTX SLI setup will still be faster since nVidia had to downclock the 7950GX2 a bit in order to save on power consumption and heat output.

 

[Genx87]

I figured this is what Nvidia was going to do when they produced a core nearly half the die size of the competition.

The reviews showed the power consumption of the card was less than the X1900XT.
If they can sell these at a 600 dollar price point they will make a killing, but may crush their own SLI sales doing it.

 

[imported_X]

Originally posted by: RyanVM
Of course, a 7900GTX SLI setup will still be faster since nVidia had to downclock the 7950GX2 a bit in order to save on power consumption and heat output.

That is, unless you compare it to a 7950GX2 SLI setup 😉

 

[Elfear]

While it will undoubtedly be faster than ATI's current best I disagree that they will be close competitors. An X1900XTX can be had for as little as $455 right now with many in the $470 range. At $600 the 7950 will be considerably more. If you want to spend $600 on hardware, I think a better solution would be two volt-modded 7900GTs.

 

[Munky]

Well, if you cant beat 'em with 1 card, gotta try it with 2 cards... slapped together to have a faint resemblance of 1 card.

 

[Powermoloch]

a monster on your wallet :Q !!!

 

[Jules]

" The Geforce 7950 GX2 card will roughly cost the same or it might end up little more expensive than ATI's but it will certainly outperform a single-chip Radeon X1900 XTX. "

Kinda like the how the price of the 7900gtx was suppose to be? lol.

 

[IeraseU]

I'm going to go ahead and predict massive shortages and ebay reselling for profit with this card ala the 512mb 7800 GTX.

 

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: IeraseU
I'm going to go ahead and predict massive shortages and ebay reselling for profit with this card ala the 512mb 7800 GTX.

QED

may or may not be shortage, but ill be sure those guys who are just made of cash will be ready to gobble it up like the 7800GTX 512 was,

 

[Ronin]

Originally posted by: munky
Well, if you cant beat 'em with 1 card, gotta try it with 2 cards... slapped together to have a faint resemblance of 1 card.

And use less power. And be more quiet. And run cooler. And have better performance.

Keep tryin, munky.

 

[Munky]

Originally posted by: Ronin

Originally posted by: munky
Well, if you cant beat 'em with 1 card, gotta try it with 2 cards... slapped together to have a faint resemblance of 1 card.

And use less power. And be more quiet. And run cooler. And have better performance.

Keep tryin, munky.

Do I care if they slap 10 cards together and call it the gf79999gtxxxx nvownsjoo edition, and it runs at room temps while using 1 watt of power? There'a absolutely nothing that impresses me about multiple video cards, regardless of how they're connected together.

 

[Cooler]

From the 7900GX2 quad sli benchmarks Both the 1900 Crossfire and 7900GTX dominated in most of the benchmarks. I Hope this was a driver issue and not the lower clocked core/ memory speed. If it was a memory /core speed issue these cards are not going to sell very well.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: BassBomb

Originally posted by: IeraseU
I'm going to go ahead and predict massive shortages and ebay reselling for profit with this card ala the 512mb 7800 GTX.

QED

may or may not be shortage, but ill be sure those guys who are just made of cash will be ready to gobble it up like the 7800GTX 512 was,

i think you meant QFT, or quoted for truth, rather than it is proven.



voodoo 6000, anyone?

 

[theprodigalrebel]

I believe the 7900GX2's (single card) performance was somewhere between 7900GT SLI & 7900GTX SLI, right?

$600 doesn't sound bad if it compares favorably to a 7900GT SLI (which would also cost in the same ballpark, depending on vendor/factory-OC)
Actually, sounds pretty good. If they can resolve all those fatal errors and crashes, I think a lotta people might buy two of them and jump on the Quad-SLI bandwagon. I know a lot of people on AT have tons of money, if the recent survey in ATOT indicates anything!

 

[Ronin]

Originally posted by: munky

Originally posted by: Ronin

Originally posted by: munky
Well, if you cant beat 'em with 1 card, gotta try it with 2 cards... slapped together to have a faint resemblance of 1 card.

And use less power. And be more quiet. And run cooler. And have better performance.

Keep tryin, munky.

Do I care if they slap 10 cards together and call it the gf79999gtxxxx nvownsjoo edition, and it runs at room temps while using 1 watt of power? There'a absolutely nothing that impresses me about multiple video cards, regardless of how they're connected together.

Man, it must suck to be so closed minded. 🙂

 

[jim1976]

It is a very good solution for those that want greater than 7900GT SLI performance with less power consumption and heat in one card at a good price.. BUT.. Are they gonna o/c as well as the simple 7900GTs? Because if they don't it's not a solution for someone than can have much better performance through o/cing 2 GTs in SLI.
Anyway I didn't went ATI this time for the speed. I went for the IQ.. Even if you put 8 Nvidia cards together they will still have the same IQ (well except 32xAA 😛 .. )
But unless you care about that it's a great solution..

P.S : I wouldn't event mention Quad SLI which sounds like a joke in my ears with the cpu limitations we have even at the most gpu limited resolutions.. No matter how immature the drivers are I bet the results would not be the expected from a Quad $LI system..

 

[Munky]

Originally posted by: Ronin

Originally posted by: munky

Originally posted by: Ronin

Originally posted by: munky
Well, if you cant beat 'em with 1 card, gotta try it with 2 cards... slapped together to have a faint resemblance of 1 card.

And use less power. And be more quiet. And run cooler. And have better performance.

Keep tryin, munky.

Do I care if they slap 10 cards together and call it the gf79999gtxxxx nvownsjoo edition, and it runs at room temps while using 1 watt of power? There'a absolutely nothing that impresses me about multiple video cards, regardless of how they're connected together.

Man, it must suck to be so closed minded. 🙂

Not as much as it must suck to buy into the hype "we'll sell you 2 cards for 100% more money, so you could get somewhere between 0-80% more performance, and you'll gladly ask for more."

 

[secretanchitman]

hmm, i hope nothing new will come out over the summer/fall if i get this card...

 

[Ronin]

Originally posted by: munky
Not as much as it must suck to buy into the hype "we'll sell you 2 cards for 100% more money, so you could get somewhere between 0-80% more performance, and you'll gladly ask for more."

What would you know about hype? You don't do more than one card. You have no personal reference, which means you rely on whatever jaded views you feel like to support your view.

Come back when you've invested your own time in the technology. Until then, you're the mouth spouting out 3rd hand information.

 

[Munky]

Originally posted by: Ronin

Originally posted by: munky
Not as much as it must suck to buy into the hype "we'll sell you 2 cards for 100% more money, so you could get somewhere between 0-80% more performance, and you'll gladly ask for more."

What would you know about hype? You don't do more than one card.

And I dont need to...

You have no personal reference,

A typical tRollo responce :roll:

which means you rely on whatever jaded views you feel like to support your view.

I've seen enough reviews to know what kind of results to expect, and I'm not impressed in the least.

Come back when you've invested your own time in the technology.

I wasnt one of the idiots who shelled out $2000 for gtx512 SLI. And I wont be one of them now either

Until then, you're the mouth spouting out 3rd hand information.

Which is bound to be more accurate than the information coming from the Nvidia marketing department.

 

[Ronin]

You've proved several points, munky...none of which put you in a positive light.

While you're obviously entitled to your own opinion, your reasoning is simply put....stupid.

/thread

Oh, and it's not a typical Rollo response..it's fact. You're a marketing machine yourself, spewing what you've read, but not experienced. As far as most people are concerned, that's a bias that can't be denied. 😉 Do yourself a favor and stop digging yourself a hole.

 

[Munky]

And, likewise, that's your opnion also, which doesnt make it a fact.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Now, now, children. This is anandtech. If a person wants to spend 1200 for 'quad SLI' then Let It Be.

Why call names? jealous? Isn't it enought to say I don't like the price to performance ratio. But really, people can buy what they want. I think it's justified since ATI doesn't have a similar product.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Actually the 7900GTX are falling in prices. The cheapest one in newegg is 460~ AR. However thats newegg.

However, in NZ right now, a GTX can be had for $100 USD cheaper than XTX for some reason. Even the X1800XTs cost as much as a GTX!! I wish i could enjoy US prices..

The 7950GX2 looks interesting as it is a 2slot SLi monster. no connector needed, and the ability to go quad is impressive. Well according to gstanfor, HDR plus SSAA in D3D games 🙂

But i get the feeling it will be in high demand, and it will sell like hot cakes, drive the prices to $899~, 😀