ASUS GeForce 9800 GX2 review
Posted by Julio Franco on 28 March 2008 - 08:04 · 14 comments & 7485 views
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#1 Posted by RAID 0 on 28 Mar 2008 - 08:40
- Oh dear God I want one!
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#1.1 Posted by ToastedJellyBowl on 28 Mar 2008 - 19:47
- Or you can buy an 8800GT for a 3rd of the price and not notice a visual difference in frame rate. I think I'll stick with my 8800GT.
With it being a next gen card, and it being a dual GPU video card, I would expect the frame rate to be a bit better than a measily 30 or so max FPS better in UT3 at a standard resolution over the 8800's. I'm disappointed in this card. -
#1.2 Posted by RAID 0 on 28 Mar 2008 - 20:00
- (ToastedJellyBowl said @ #1.1)Or you can buy an 8800GT for a 3rd of the price and not notice a visual difference in frame rate. I think I'll stick with my 8800GT.
With it being a next gen card, and it being a dual GPU video card, I would expect the frame rate to be a bit better than a measily 30 or so max FPS better in UT3 at a standard resolution over the 8800's. I'm disappointed in this card.
I get where you're coming from. You have to understand I'm rocking a 8600 GT, so this is like... WAY better.
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#2 Posted by kravex on 28 Mar 2008 - 09:23
- $600, no wonder they say PC gaming is dying.
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#2.1 Posted by ahhell on 28 Mar 2008 - 10:59
- First gen cards are always expensive. How is this anything new?
Oh, I forgot, that is unimportant when you're trolling. -
#2.2 Posted by WICKO on 28 Mar 2008 - 12:28
- (kravex said @ #2)$600, no wonder they say PC gaming is dying.
Yeah I know eh? And thats the only model in existence too.. oh wait. -
#2.3 Posted by Smigit on 28 Mar 2008 - 12:31
- (kravex said @ #2)$600, no wonder they say PC gaming is dying.You can run ANY game on the market on a $200US 8800GT too by the way...
Infact the market atm is saturated with alot of cards at very good price points. 9600GT isn't too bad and from there you have the 8800GT 256, 8800GT 512, 8800GTS 512 and the new 9800GTX.
Most expensive of those I believe, the 9800GTX, is set to be about $350US I believe and thats the price at launch. Theres PLENTY of cards here for those that don't want to spend alot.
Yes, the GX2 is expensive but it's a) a new card and b) two graphics cards in one. I think it's overpriced and should be about $500 - $550 based on the price of a single card, but theres a reason for the price. If people have an NVidia board I'd just go SLI to be honest. It *may* be worth more a look at for Intel board owners.
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#3 Posted by +Beastage on 28 Mar 2008 - 10:36
- Actually you can get them at 500usd and we are talking about a couple of G92 based video cards merged together without the loss involving SLI scaling.
This card is worth its money unlike the 8800gtx and 8800ultras
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#3.1 Posted by Smigit on 28 Mar 2008 - 12:32
- It's still SLI so it still has a performance loss associated with SLI, it's just the 2 boards are integrated onto one physical card. The drivers still need to support SLI and all that for it to work. It just uses the one PCI-E slot so the board chipset itself doesnt need to support SLI. Still has the bridge seen when you connect two cards up in normal SLI but.
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#4 Posted by +stevember on 28 Mar 2008 - 11:17
- Why did they use Catalyst 8.1?
Yes maybe more stable in a rare occasion but ATI HAVE BOOSTED PERFORMANCE a lot in 8.2 and 8.3. Ummm 20% in COH alone.
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#5 Posted by Nose Nuggets on 28 Mar 2008 - 17:30
- i had a 7950 gx2 and i thought it was terrible. having to reboot my system to switch between single monitor and duel monitor was a pain. for what ever reason, it cant split the resources. you can either run duel video card mode and project to a single screen or you split the cards and dedicate one to each monitor.
not too fond of that. now i have an 8800gts oc 512 and its sweet.
If the Radeon HD 3870 X2 is essentially two Radeon HD 3870 GPUs put together on the same PCB, then it is safe to say that the new GeForce 9800 GX2 is no different, with two GeForce 8800 GTS 512 GPUs slapped together on a single PCB.
What ATI should find scary about this is that the GeForce 8800 GTS 512 is significantly faster than the Radeon HD 3870, and so that gives us a good starting point to start analyzing the GeForce 9800 GX2...