New NVIDIA 7950 GX2 1gb is out!

**nubcake** · June 6th, 2006, 10:23 PM

The new card is out !! What do you think?

**cunokyle** · June 6th, 2006, 10:34 PM

WOW! A single card that runs in SLI! That is actually pretty sweet! the prices look pretty reasonable too!

**TeeRex** · June 6th, 2006, 10:34 PM

Yea man I just bought a Dell XPS 700 today and got this card in it. I cannot wait to get it man it's gonna be badass.

**carl33p** · June 6th, 2006, 11:11 PM

I wonder how it'll perform... Think a single slot may bottleneck it? I also wonder how hott it runs, and if its better than 2 in SLI.

**lazyman4444** · June 7th, 2006, 12:29 AM

AMAZING SPECS!!! someone here will soon get it and be king of the benchmarks!

**RamonGTP** · June 7th, 2006, 12:36 AM

Originally Posted by carl33p

I wonder how it'll perform... Think a single slot may bottleneck it? I also wonder how hott it runs, and if its better than 2 in SLI.

No it doesn't... A PCI X16 slot has MORE than enough bandwidth, not that it matters anyway, becuase in most boards when you run SLI in two slots, they each effectively run at PCIe 8x anyway. The fact that both GPU's are on one card eliminates a lot of latency, according to toms anyway. They have a review and it shows it outperforming a 7900GT SLI setup.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/06/...orce_7950_gx2/

Don't expect any unreal benchmarks though, remember, its simply a 7900 GT SLI setup on a single card. Someone with a 1900xt/x setup in CF will surly outperform it. As of right now, there isn't the driver, nor the bios support to have TWO of these cards, except from the OEM's like Dell. Hopefully that will change soon, and then we can REALLY get excited