NVIDIA Corp. said the popularity of its core-logic aimed to support the company’s multi-GPU technology had been growing rapidly. This may indicate that the firm’s position in the graphics processors market has also improved.
The Santa Clara, California-based chipset designer said it had shipped 750 thousand of its nForce4 SLI core-logic components for AMD Athlon 64 systems. The figure is up significantly from about 350 thousand of appropriate units proclaimed to be supplied to mainboard partners by early March, 2005. By mid-February, 2005, NVIDIA Corp. had shipped approximately 1 million of its nForce4 chips in total.
According to the company’s probes in March, 80% of systems equipped with mainboards based on the nForce4 SLI actually featured two graphics cards. Furthermore, the most successful Multi-GPU configuration on the market was relatively expensive dual NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT setup, which was installed in the majority of the SLI-enabled systems, according to NVIDIA.
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News source: Xbit Labs
The Santa Clara, California-based chipset designer said it had shipped 750 thousand of its nForce4 SLI core-logic components for AMD Athlon 64 systems. The figure is up significantly from about 350 thousand of appropriate units proclaimed to be supplied to mainboard partners by early March, 2005. By mid-February, 2005, NVIDIA Corp. had shipped approximately 1 million of its nForce4 chips in total.
According to the company’s probes in March, 80% of systems equipped with mainboards based on the nForce4 SLI actually featured two graphics cards. Furthermore, the most successful Multi-GPU configuration on the market was relatively expensive dual NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT setup, which was installed in the majority of the SLI-enabled systems, according to NVIDIA.
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Test configuration and benchmarks
The systems used for testing on which we have successively installed Windows XP SP 2 and Windows XP x64 Professional Edition was provided by Senorg Romania www.senorg.ro.
The configuration of the test system:
- ABIT AN8 Socket 939 with nForce 4 chipset motherboard
- AMD Athlon 64 bit 3000+ boxed processor, cooler included
- 512 MB RAM Kingston Dual Channel 400 MHz
- SATA Western Digital 120 GB hard disk
- ATI Radeon X700 PCI Express cu 256 MB RAM GDDR3 ABIT video card
- DVD-RW Lite-ON optical device
- 350 W power source
- Eizo 1280x1024@85 Hz monitor
For the motherboard, the following drivers were used: nForce 6.53 for Windows x32 and nForce 6.39 for Windows x64, being the last available versions from Nvidia when this test was done.
The driver for the ATI Radeon X700 video card was Catalyst Center 4.5, available on the ATI site both for Windows XP Professional Edition and Windows XP x64 Professional Edition.
The operating systems were Windows XP Professional Edition SP2 and Windows XP x64 Professional Edition SP1 build 1433.
The following benchmarks were used:
SiSoftware Sandra 2005 Professional Edition, both 32-bit and 64-bit
3D Mark 2005 1.20
ScienceMark 2005, both 32-bit and 64-bit bit
Chronicles of Riddick : Escape from Butcher’s Bay, both 32-bit and 64-bit bit
As much as I love my 6600 GT I think that statment is wishful thinking on Nvidia's part
thats alot of dumb people then
benchmarks of SLI show its not as good as ppl think
current games are NOT optimised for multi gpu or an SLI interface so will show minimal gains using it but games coming within the next few months to one year like unreal III, Duke nukem forever and of course the next half life 2 expansion as well as many more engines WILL be making use of the rendering power dual cores produce.
unreal engine 3 has shown massive gains using sli incase you were under a rock
one expensive one is enough to get a VERY playable framerate
these obsessed probably will probly buy two top of hte line cards..and probably OC them to go from like 100 fps to 180 or w/e...when there wud be no visible difference
it's just stupid...
Bingo! 80%
I don't intend to put in another 6800GT either unless I can find one on the cheap down the track. I could also sell the 6800GT when the next generation card (from ATI or NVIDIA) becomes available (with WGF1.0 support, etc.) if there was someone else looking to make their setup SLI or even want to upgrade from an inferior Graphics Card (6600GT, 6600, 6200, X300, etc.). I have my options available.
They're not saying Nvidia pwns the world, just the the state of Montana.
Last edited by 578 on 21 Apr 2005 - 22:04
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