POLL - What is your "No Limits" GPU platform?

[alcoholbob]

What exactly happens in Windows 32bit if you attempt to tri SLI 1.8GB cards? When I post into Windows with SLI 285s, Vista 32bit shows I have 2GB of RAM (I have 6). LOL I wonder if Windows will just try to run off the disk (page file).

 

[lopri]

Originally posted by: happy medium

Originally posted by: n7
No microstuttering, multi-display issues, broken scaling, worse minimum fps, or other multi-GPU crap for me thanx.

I'd echo lopri & say GTX 285 or possibly 4890.

So in short, as i already have a GTX 280...there's nothing i'd presently upgrade to.

I think sli scaling has come a long way.
Tri 285's seem to scale ok with the right cpu?

http://www.guru3d.com/article/...85-review--3way-sli/12

Minimum fps seem fine too?

http://www.tweaktown.com/artic...sli_tested/index6.html

SLI scaling and experience was actually better in the past. Games like F.E.A.R. and Call of Duty 2 (or even Doom 3) scaled very, very well with 7800/7900 SLI. Of course this was under XP.

 

[Cookie Monster]

Um how about the speculated "HD4890X2 4GB" Quad Xfire? Can be an option too?

 

[Hauk]

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Um how about the speculated "HD4890X2 4GB" Quad Xfire? Can be an option too?

Certainly a worthy (very worthy) option. Added poll answer. To be fair, included GTX 275 1792MB, also a pending release.

 

[evolucion8]

Since the potential gains in performance diminishes greatly with more than 2 GPU's I would choose the HD 4870X2, HD 4890X2 or for nVidians, the GTX 295.

 

[happy medium]

Originally posted by: Hauk

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Um how about the speculated "HD4890X2 4GB" Quad Xfire? Can be an option too?

Certainly a worthy (very worthy) option. Added poll answer. To be fair, included GTX 275 1792MB, also a pending release.

If we can add cards that are not realeased yet how about this gtx 390 Quad sli on a single card?

This one gets my vote. Supposed to launch in May.


http://www.tweaktown.com/news/...single_card/index.html

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: happy medium

Originally posted by: Hauk

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Um how about the speculated "HD4890X2 4GB" Quad Xfire? Can be an option too?

Certainly a worthy (very worthy) option. Added poll answer. To be fair, included GTX 275 1792MB, also a pending release.

If we can add cards that are not realeased yet how about this gtx 390 Quad sli on a single card?

This one gets my vote. Supposed to launch in May.


http://www.tweaktown.com/news/...single_card/index.html

Ill take 2 of those! :laugh:

 

[happy medium]

Originally posted by: OCguy

Originally posted by: happy medium

Originally posted by: Hauk

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Um how about the speculated "HD4890X2 4GB" Quad Xfire? Can be an option too?

Certainly a worthy (very worthy) option. Added poll answer. To be fair, included GTX 275 1792MB, also a pending release.

If we can add cards that are not realeased yet how about this gtx 390 Quad sli on a single card?

This one gets my vote. Supposed to launch in May.


http://www.tweaktown.com/news/...single_card/index.html

Ill take 2 of those! :laugh:

Yea with working 8x sli drivers.:laugh:

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: Astrallite
What exactly happens in Windows 32bit if you attempt to tri SLI 1.8GB cards? When I post into Windows with SLI 285s, Vista 32bit shows I have 2GB of RAM (I have 6). LOL I wonder if Windows will just try to run off the disk (page file).

that is a funny observation... i do wonder.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I'm surprised that no-one here has mentioned the Hydra chipset.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I'm surprised that no-one here has mentioned the Hydra chipset.

because it doesn't exist yet.
that is like saying you want a 20nm GTX580 or an HD8700

 

[AstroManLuca]

Any super-powerful single-card setup, like a 4890X2 or GTX 295.

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: taltamir

Originally posted by: Astrallite
What exactly happens in Windows 32bit if you attempt to tri SLI 1.8GB cards? When I post into Windows with SLI 285s, Vista 32bit shows I have 2GB of RAM (I have 6). LOL I wonder if Windows will just try to run off the disk (page file).

that is a funny observation... i do wonder.

Pretty sure you'll just BSOD once you don't have enough address space for all the kernel-mode processes to play nicely in.

 

[Hauk]

Originally posted by: happy medium

Originally posted by: Hauk

Originally posted by: Cookie Monster
Um how about the speculated "HD4890X2 4GB" Quad Xfire? Can be an option too?

Certainly a worthy (very worthy) option. Added poll answer. To be fair, included GTX 275 1792MB, also a pending release.

If we can add cards that are not realeased yet how about this gtx 390 Quad sli on a single card?

This one gets my vote. Supposed to launch in May.


http://www.tweaktown.com/news/...single_card/index.html

So this was not an April Fool's joke?? We know a single PCB 295 is in the works, but this??

 

[Tempered81]

yah that gtx390 was a joke. fastest single real card should be the 4890x2 4GB

 

[Hauk]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
yah that gtx390 was a joke. fastest single real card should be the 4890x2 4GB

I thought so but when I saw Tweaktown's name, I thought it's gotta be real!

I mean there it is right under their name.. "Technology content trusted by users all around the world."

 

[Cookie Monster]

Hauk its 4GB, not 4MB!

 

[Wreckage]

From the benchmarks I have seen dual GTX295s would be the fastest setup. (unless you count something crazy like the guy who has 23 of them).

Not only will it crush any game (including GTAIV) but just think of what you can do with CUDA..... PhysX, Folding, Video editing and transcoding, etc. etc.

Your own personal super computer.

Plus you will be more than ready for OpenCL...
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_opencl.html

"As part of the OpenCL presentation NVIDIA featured the world's first OpenCL GPU demonstration"

 

[MrK6]

Originally posted by: Wreckage
From the benchmarks I have seen dual GTX295s would be the fastest setup. (unless you count something crazy like the guy who has 23 of them).

Not only will it crush any game (including GTAIV) but just think of what you can do with CUDA..... PhysX, Folding, Video editing and transcoding, etc. etc.

Your own personal super computer.

Plus you will be more than ready for OpenCL...
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_opencl.html

"As part of the OpenCL presentation NVIDIA featured the world's first OpenCL GPU demonstration"

Actually it wouldn't. Last reviews I saw, GTAIV performed worse with Quad SLI over SLI. No doubt about it Quad-SLI would have the most GPU/crunching power, and games like Crysis would probably take advantage of it.

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: MrK6

Originally posted by: Wreckage
From the benchmarks I have seen dual GTX295s would be the fastest setup. (unless you count something crazy like the guy who has 23 of them).

Not only will it crush any game (including GTAIV) but just think of what you can do with CUDA..... PhysX, Folding, Video editing and transcoding, etc. etc.

Your own personal super computer.

Plus you will be more than ready for OpenCL...
http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_opencl.html

"As part of the OpenCL presentation NVIDIA featured the world's first OpenCL GPU demonstration"

Actually it wouldn't. Last reviews I saw, GTAIV performed worse with Quad SLI over SLI. No doubt about it Quad-SLI would have the most GPU/crunching power, and games like Crysis would probably take advantage of it.

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/...BCaVVmajNfOV80X2wuZ2lm

 

[evolucion8]

Originally posted by: Wreckage

Not only will it crush any game (including GTAIV) but just think of what you can do with CUDA..... PhysX, Folding, Video editing and transcoding, etc. etc.

There's no popular applications that can take advantage of CUDA, besides PhysX, Folding@Home and Badaboom, OpenCL is the future and yet there's no applications which can accelerate the video editing, and video transcoding is faster on ATi hardware.

http://www.pcper.com/article.p...=647&type=expert&pid=3

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3475&p=1

http://www.gamexeon.com/forum/...o-video-converter.html <<Summary of the performance table of both

AVIVO is working much better now with newer drivers than in those reviews which used the 8.12

Your own personal super computer.

It would be great, but most of us are not programmers, so how can we untap those TFLOPS of power?

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/...BCaVVmajNfOV80X2wuZ2lm

http://www.hardocp.com/article...l?art=MTYyMyw4LCwxMTA=

The performance boost going from the GTX 295 to Quad GTX 295 is quite poor proving that the drivers aren't up to the task, and considering how fast the nVidia cards ages, I wouldn't count on it, look at the 7900GX2 and 7950GX2. Optimizations for them stopped much before and their real power was left untapped. In many games the minimum frate rates dipped in the Quad SLI like in Far Cry 2, GTAIV is just too CPU bound to take advantage of Quad SLI or CrossfireX. There's no perfect Quad GPU solution.

http://www.hardocp.com/article...wxMSwsaGVudGh1c2lhc3Q=

HardOCP is nvidia biased and look this review in which compares the plain GTX 295 and the HD 4870 X2, so anything higher probably is more driver dependant. Both are a wash.

 

[Tempered81]

wreckage, that dual gtx295 doesnt show a comparison to triple sli gtx285. I think 3 285's would be fastest.