7950GX2 or 7900GT signature series?

[jshuck3]

If you had to pick one which would you pick? If I remember right isn't the 7950GX2 basically 2 7900GTs stuck together?

What about SLI issues? Would they exist?

 

[keeleysam]

7950GX2

 

[acegazda]

are you talking about 2 7900gt's in sli? If you're not, there's no comparison... 7950gx2. Sli should be fine with the gx2.

 

[jshuck3]

I am talking about 2 7900gts in sli....is the 7950gx2 the same as that or is it a lot more?

And will games that have issues with SLI have issues with the 7950gx2 or do games see it as 1 card?

 

[Skott]

In performance one 7950 GX2 performs about on par or slightly better than two regular 7900GT in SLI mode. You dont need SLI to run the 7950GX2 which is a nice feature for those that dont have a SLi mobo or dont want to run two cards on their SLI mobo. It does however take up two cardslots due to its width. So one 7950GX2 is a better performer overall than two normal 7900GTs. However its not better than two 7900GTX cards in SLI so remember that.

Eventually (I'm betting it'll happen anyway) if you have a SLI mobo and get a 7950GX2 you could conceivably run two 7950GX2 in SLI and that'll give you Quad-SLI. thats pretty good future-proofing if you ask me. Right now though nVidia isnt supporting Quad-SLI (driver techinical issues) and the ones you do see being advertised from some pc manufacturers are tweaked without nVidia's support. So buyer beware about that.

 

[acegazda]

sli 7900gt signiture series, ko superclocked and vmodded 7900gt's will beat the 79050gx2 otherwiase, about equal.

 

[nitromullet]

I think for something that high end you want 512MB of RAM for each core so you can run high res textures, go with the GX2.