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Nvidia could combat ATI’s forthcoming X2 cards with dual-GPU cards of its own.
Nvidia has been rumoured to be reviving the idea of dual-GPU cards for some time, but is there actually a new GeForce 7950 GX2-style DX10 card in the works, now that ATI has announced its dual-GPU X2 cards? We decided to put the question to Nvidia.
‘Hang on a minute, haven’t we already done that?’ said Nvidia’s product PR manager for Northern Europe, Adam Foat, when asked about the possibility of new dual-GPU Nvidia cards. We pointed out that Nvidia wasn’t doing it any more, to which Foat replied: ‘Who says?’
‘That’s our last generation product,’ said Foat, ‘so without me going into too much detail, you know how Nvidia works. We know when we want to launch a product, and we execute when that product comes out, and we’ve done that successfully now for the last couple of years… the 7950 GX2 was a very successful card and we’ve got the technology, you know that, we don’t have to spell it out.’
So why is Nvidia being so secretive about it, while ATI is proudly telling everyone about its forthcoming X2 cards? ‘Just because you don’t hear anything about what we have coming, that doesn’t mean we’re not doing anything,’ says Foat. ‘There are other companies out there that shout from the rooftops about what they’re doing, and what they’ve got coming in the future. We’ve made the mistake in the past where we’ve not rested on our laurels, as it were, but we’ve not got the product 100 per cent right, and you know we’re not going to make that mistake again.’
He has a point – nobody wants to see the disaster that was Quad SLI with the original GeForce 7900 GX2 cards again. Of course, ever the master of PR, Nvidia hasn’t said anything concrete here, but it hasn’t been a denial either, and the hints have been strong enough for it to look very much like Nvidia could be bringing out another dual-GPU card this year. We’ll just have to wait and see.
Source: Custom PC
Nvidia has been rumoured to be reviving the idea of dual-GPU cards for some time, but is there actually a new GeForce 7950 GX2-style DX10 card in the works, now that ATI has announced its dual-GPU X2 cards? We decided to put the question to Nvidia.
‘Hang on a minute, haven’t we already done that?’ said Nvidia’s product PR manager for Northern Europe, Adam Foat, when asked about the possibility of new dual-GPU Nvidia cards. We pointed out that Nvidia wasn’t doing it any more, to which Foat replied: ‘Who says?’
‘That’s our last generation product,’ said Foat, ‘so without me going into too much detail, you know how Nvidia works. We know when we want to launch a product, and we execute when that product comes out, and we’ve done that successfully now for the last couple of years… the 7950 GX2 was a very successful card and we’ve got the technology, you know that, we don’t have to spell it out.’
So why is Nvidia being so secretive about it, while ATI is proudly telling everyone about its forthcoming X2 cards? ‘Just because you don’t hear anything about what we have coming, that doesn’t mean we’re not doing anything,’ says Foat. ‘There are other companies out there that shout from the rooftops about what they’re doing, and what they’ve got coming in the future. We’ve made the mistake in the past where we’ve not rested on our laurels, as it were, but we’ve not got the product 100 per cent right, and you know we’re not going to make that mistake again.’
He has a point – nobody wants to see the disaster that was Quad SLI with the original GeForce 7900 GX2 cards again. Of course, ever the master of PR, Nvidia hasn’t said anything concrete here, but it hasn’t been a denial either, and the hints have been strong enough for it to look very much like Nvidia could be bringing out another dual-GPU card this year. We’ll just have to wait and see.
Source: Custom PC
IMO, both GX2s were disasters from an innovation standpoint, they didn't bring anything new, Nvidia just stuck 2 PCBs together and called it a day.
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