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.
Manufacturers have already started to get their 7950GX2 graphics cards from NVIDIA. These are the cards capable of Quad SLI. The lengh of these cards have been reduced to 22.5cm from the 33.5cm of the 7900GX2 cards first shown when NVIDIA displayed Quad SLI. The card will have an SLI bridge connector (not shown in the picture above) allowing users to SLI 2 of these for Quad. Specs of each card which consists of 2 boards: 500MHz Core and 600MHz GDDR3 1.4ns 512MB Memory on each board.
Plus, the XTX in Crossfire beats the 7900GX2 in more than half the test’s.
7950GX2 = Smaller version of the 7900GX2. So you can expect the same performance. Nothing more.
Unless nVidia really improves the Drivers, no use going quad sli.
It may not be… but its more then enough for ATI to start thinking on same lines or slash product prices… I mean CF Edition Retail Card mostly goes for $500 or more and when you get Dual-Gpu[Even tho its not so good] card for $600, which out-performs ATI, there is some pressure. I hope to win the battle, as in after Slashed Prices
nVidia IQ = Crap
So
7950 = Twice the crap…
And you are suggesting that you would like to go in for Quad Crap :P…
Anyways… Coming to the point… No denying its a great price but what will one do with so much raw power when you can have better IQ with something Cheaper.. Also Investig $600 as of now in a nVIDIA GPU is a waste of money as the DX 10 artitechture is more comfortable with ATI then nVIDIA…
Its not always necessory that a dual core card beats a single core card. Just for eg. a A64 beat a x2 3800/4200 in almost every gaming benchies. Dual core is needed if ur powering up a 32" LCD. And this is the truth Quad core is a absolute waste of money.
ATi cards are still costlier than nVidia in India. Hope they bring the temperatures and prices…
if you read the info I gave, the “New Card” has 2 processors on it, so how can a single ATi card beat it ?