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GeForce 9800 GX2 might get 2GB of memory

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Could be manufacturer dependant

Although we've already seen a lot of different pictures of the GeForce 9800GX2, Fudzilla is the first site to have a screen shot from a manual of one of the partner cards as you can see below. This in itself might not be the most exciting thing in the world, as it just confirms the previous pictures, but what made us take notice, was that each of the PCB's seem to feature 1GB of memory on this specific card.

Now we can't be 100 percent sure that this is the case, as it could simply correlate to the total ammount of memory on the card, but comparing other manuals from the same manufacturer seems to imply that this card might very well come with 2GB of graphics memory.

As you'll notice from our post yesterday, this board doesn't have the optical S/PDIF in seen on some of the card pictures that have been posted elsewhere. It's also strange that each card seem to feature a fan connector, as it looks as if the card only has a single cooling fan.

Apart from that there isn't much else that we didn't know, but at least it shows that these cards can't be too far away. Now we just need some real performance figures and everyone will be happy.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5563&Itemid=34

Check link for a picture.
 
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well... since they dont bother designing an all-in-one pcb layout, slapping 2 1gb cards would be easy.

Id be impressed if they followed ATI and made it all on one pcb...
 
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Sounds silly. In most cases, the 8800GT isn't fast enough to benefit from the extra 512mb of RAM and it certainly doesn't bring the same performance increase as going from 256=>512mb RAM.
 
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I agree. Although it's possible, it's silly. The extra 2x512MB frame buffer will give 0 performance boost. There was a comparison between a 8800GTS g92 512MB and 1024MB. Both cards were performing same.
I hope nVidia are going to use faster video RAM, because the cards are bottlenecked by the video RAM bandwidth. For example gDDR4 @1200MHz can improve the performance dramatically. It'll dissipate less heat and consume less energy.
 

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I agree. Although it's possible, it's silly. The extra 2x512MB frame buffer will give 0 performance boost. There was a comparison between a 8800GTS g92 512MB and 1024MB. Both cards were performing same.
I hope nVidia are going to use faster video RAM, because the cards are bottlenecked by the video RAM bandwidth. For example gDDR4 @1200MHz can improve the performance dramatically. It'll dissipate less heat and consume less energy.

But if you keeped the card for 5 years it could see the light of day.

My cos has a 9600SE 256meg card, I gave him a 9600XT 128meg to see if it would help him play some of the newer games(yea I know I sold him a FX-62 and 2900XT for 200 after that)

The SE played better because it had more memory, now when the cards first came out the XT was the faster card because not all games used all the memory. Now today it's different, and if you think that times are going to slow down and use less memory:laugh:.
 

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2 Gigs is a waste of time IMO. All it does is create latencies that aren't needed. How many games will need 2 gigs?
 

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but, unless I'm wrong - usage of GDDR4 would mean they'd have to pay ATI royalties for the technology - if ATI is even willing to cough it up.

either way, I think nVidia are taking the "con the buyer" route with this. How many buyers would truly realize the extra MEM would be rather pointless from a performance standpoint, and just buy it because it's offers more MEM than the competition?

TBH, though, I wonder which company will jump on GDDR5 first . . .
 
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but, unless I'm wrong - usage of GDDR4 would mean they'd have to pay ATI royalties for the technology - if ATI is even willing to cough it up.

either way, I think nVidia are taking the "con the buyer" route with this. How many buyers would truly realize the extra MEM would be rather pointless from a performance standpoint, and just buy it because it's offers more MEM than the competition?

TBH, though, I wonder which company will jump on GDDR5 first . . .

Yeah I figured it would be GDDR5 if it is truely 2GB of RAM. Cause GDDR3 ain't sayin much.
 

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2 Gigs is a waste of time IMO. All it does is create latencies that aren't needed. How many games will need 2 gigs?

I don't know yet, BUT remember two cards with one gig doesn't mean 2 gigs of memory.

It's just SLi with both cards having a gig of ram.
 

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I don't know yet, BUT remember two cards with one gig doesn't mean 2 gigs of memory.

It's just SLi with both cards having a gig of ram.


but as far as the whole "package" is concerned - it very easy to market as 2GB


(and print elsewhere on the box in fine print 2x1GB)
 

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Two GPU-s on one PCB that is what I am looking for rather then 2x1024MB of video RAM. Nvidia can do it!
 

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man, 2 gis of RAM is simply too much....I have no doubt that the card will trade blows with the ATi's X2 and maybe win but THE question is HOW MUCH will cost????

Almost all of us choose our VGAs using performance/price rule, If the card cost too much then maybe ATi's solutions will be a better choice.
 
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Two GPU-s on one PCB that is what I am looking for rather then 2x1024MB of video RAM. Nvidia can do it!

well.. no, i dont think they can, or why else would all their dual gpu cards of late be just 2 cards welded together???

they appear to lack the innovation to go back, redesign a single pcb with everything incorporated like ATI. which is a shame, because if they actually could be bothered it would probably be good.

BUT. judging by the SIZE of their cards in comparison to ATI's, they lack the engineering ability to do it. If ATI's dual gpu design is the same size as NV's best single gpu design, thats saying alot, and NV's dual gpu (dual pcb design) is 100% larger than a single gpu design...
 
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Dude its like they are selling you two Ultras that just take up one slot.... Thats why the are going to put warning signs that say to not touch the GPU because it can get to hot and oh what was the other one... Oh yeah and to not place it near another pice of hardware in your computer lol.

take a look. http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?p=647307#post647307
 
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well.. no, i dont think they can, or why else would all their dual gpu cards of late be just 2 cards welded together???

they appear to lack the innovation to go back, redesign a single pcb with everything incorporated like ATI. which is a shame, because if they actually could be bothered it would probably be good.

BUT. judging by the SIZE of their cards in comparison to ATI's, they lack the engineering ability to do it. If ATI's dual gpu design is the same size as NV's best single gpu design, thats saying alot, and NV's dual gpu (dual pcb design) is 100% larger than a single gpu design...

10% larger, 40% more power, works out for me. And why would the bother, both cards take 2 slots no matter what, so whats your problem?
 
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There is always sense to put 2GB RAM on video card :cool: instead of 1GB because it is the only way to justify 100USD more and final price of 700USD for example ;). Who is talking about performance and necessity here :laugh:?
 
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SCREW 2GB give me a frigging physx proccessor optimized by nvidia for use in all games directly on the card
 
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All its gonna do is make it more expensive for no gain in oomph.
 

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It'd only make sense if each GPU/RAM had a 512Mbit memory bus instead of the 256 we see on the cards now. Then, people with stupidly high-resolutions would be laughing.

I doubt they'll increase the bus, but they should. It's basically just a marketing ploy.
 
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being as its only 1gig effective 2 total is about right.. especially if more than one x 2 get paired up as they will..

plus there is the "selling" point.. ati need to do the same and probably will..

lets not forget these type cards are about very high resolutions and AA.. no point in having em else wise..

the green team will make it sound as good as they can and jack the price up high.. ati on the other hand will keep going for price competition.. their first x2 needed to be relatively good value..

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It'd only make sense if each GPU/RAM had a 512Mbit memory bus instead of the 256 we see on the cards now. Then, people with stupidly high-resolutions would be laughing.

I doubt they'll increase the bus, but they should. It's basically just a marketing ploy.
I agree...
In that situation probably 2GB will attain significance but once again the 512bit memory bus (already implemented in 2900 series) is very nice and also very expensive feature. It requires more complicated and long PCB, big enough GPU to allow the electrical connection with the memory chips and many more things which lead to higher price of the GPU itself.
The comparison between 2900 with 512bit memory bus (512MB and 1GB) and between 2900 with 512bit vs 256bit memory bus shows that todays GPUs arn't powerful enough to fill the existing buffer of 1GB. What about 2GB?
Probably the next generation of GPUs from both companys will be with 2-3 or more times better performance and 2GB of memory buffer will be must but probably. The time will answer on that question... hopefully soon.
 
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10% larger, 40% more power, works out for me. And why would the bother, both cards take 2 slots no matter what, so whats your problem?

incorrect

the ati 2870x2 can be single slot water cooled, a dual pcb design cannot.

Id imagine the power draw on 1 pcb may be less than 2 pcbs joined.

It lacks any amount of innovation, style or effort.

cannot be said to "truly" be a single card, since its infact not, its 2 pcbs = 2 cards

1 pcb = 1 card

Edit: this is just my opinion on dual pcb cards, of course im not saying anything bad about the performance etc etc, just ATI should be given immense credit for a total redesign on their x2 cards against Nvidia's literal slapping together of 2 cards
 
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I agree,2 pcb's is not a single card,it is obviously 2,same mashup they did with the 7950 gx2.When will they learn.

The ati design is much more innovative,even if it may not be faster than the nvidia option.
 
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but, unless I'm wrong - usage of GDDR4 would mean they'd have to pay ATI royalties for the technology - if ATI is even willing to cough it up.
ATi have nothing to do with gDDR4 technology and nVidia doesn't have to pay anything to use it.
San Jose, CA – July 5, 2006: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology and the leading producer of high-end graphics memory, announced today that it has begun mass producing the world’s fastest graphics memory, GDDR4 (series four of graphics double-density-rate memory), which processes images 33 percent faster than the fastest memory on the market today. Graphics memory is installed in desktop PCs, notebooks and workstations to move huge volumes of video images simultaneously.

“With GDDR4-based systems, we’re entering a new frontier with life-like movements and richly textured imagery far better than DVD movies being viewed today,” said Mueez Deen, Marketing Director, Graphics Memory and Mobile DRAM at Samsung Semiconductor. “Using 80-nanometer production technology, the memory has an ultra-high-speed data processing rate of 2.4Gigabits per second (Gbps).”

Samsung has dramatically increased the performance of GDDR4 while reducing power consumption on a performance equivalency basis. When measured against GDDR3 at the highest comparable speed (2.0Gb/s), GDDR4 showed a 45 percent power savings. The 512Mb GDDR4 memory will be offered in a 32-bit data bus configuration.

GDDR4 uses JEDEC-approved standards for signal noise reduction, including data bus inversion and multi-preamble specifications, to help attain the highest possible speed.

Manufacturers of graphics processing units (GPUs) and video cards have expressed strong interest in the new memory.

"NVIDIA worked with JEDEC to develop the GDDR4 standard and we are excited to see Samsung ramping this into production," said Tony Tamasi, vice president of technical marketing at NVIDIA. "The graphics industry has an insatiable demand for high bandwidth memories and GDDR4 is poised to become the next major evolutionary step for our GPUs."

"We''re delighted that we''ll be able to use GDDR4 from Samsung in our latest graphics cards," said Joe Macri, senior director of engineering, ATI, and chair of the JEDEC committee on GDDR4. "Samsung''s timely introduction will increase the performance of our upcoming products and ultimately improve the gaming experience for our users".
http://www.samsung.com/us/business/semiconductor/newsView.do?news_id=749.0
 
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