What's the word on PCIE 2.0?

[RyanW2050]

Has it been determined if the nvidia 9800 series will be PCIE2.0? If not, when do you all think it will come into the picture?

 

[PCTC2]

well, the only 9800 series card we know of is the 9800GX2 and that will be PCIe 2.0 because it's just two G92GTS's smacked into "one".

 

[taltamir]

must for a 3870x2.

useful (10%) for sli / crossfire setups.

Absolutely useless for everything else (less then 2%)

The expected 9800GTX will probably not benefit much from it (like 2%).
The GX2 would probably HAVE to have it like the 3870x2. (not only is it bandwidth hungrey, but it contains a splitter that splits it into two 8x lanes... so sli on a bandwidth hungrey new card in 8x sli... or 8x pciev2, where v2 gives double the speed per lane... making it equal to two x16 v1)

 

[DSF]

Originally posted by: RyanW2050
Has it been determined if the nvidia 9800 series will be PCIE2.0? If not, when do you all think it will come into the picture?

I don't see why it wouldn't be, since the 8800GT already is.

 

[RyanW2050]

Hmm. So is it correct to say that a single 8800GT would gain no benefit from a 1.1 to a 2.0 slot? It's just more bandwidth available that it's not using, right? Or is there more to it.

 

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Yep.

 

[Nurn]

Originally posted by: taltamir
must for a 3870x2.

useful (10%) for sli / crossfire setups.

Absolutely useless for everything else (less then 2%)

The expected 9800GTX will probably not benefit much from it (like 2%).
The GX2 would probably HAVE to have it like the 3870x2. (not only is it bandwidth hungrey, but it contains a splitter that splits it into two 8x lanes... so sli on a bandwidth hungrey new card in 8x sli... or 8x pciev2, where v2 gives double the speed per lane... making it equal to two x16 v1)

Actually, I think that the 10% boost comes from the 2 x 16 slots (vs 2 x 8) for crossfire boards such as the X38, rather than the difference between PCI 1 vs PCI 2. PCI 2.0 doesn't really do much for today's crop of video cards. I just read a big article over at Tom's about this.

http://www.tomshardware.com/20...ire_meets_pci_express/