GeForce 9800 GX2 leaked (two 65nm G92 / 8800 on 1 card)

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...800-gx2-nabbed

Keeping roadmaps under wraps is [H]ard

By Wily Ferret: Friday, 04 January 2008, 2:35 PM

THE GREEN TEAM is usually pretty good at keeping its future graphics
plans under wraps. Usually it shares them only with selected websites
and "partners" who are NDA'd up to the eyeballs to avoid the
information leaking onto the web.

But the straight-up folks at HardOCP have posted fresh pictures and
information about Nvidia's roadmap today, including a look at the dual-
GPU beast which will be known as the 9800 GX2.

The card is similar to the 7950 GX2, with two 8800 GPUs on separate
PCBs, slammed together and running in SLI. It is due to launch at the
end of February or early March, the site reckons, and will take over
the crown of fastest card from the 8800 Ultra - at least in games that
support SLI.

Heat should be less of a problem than in existing SLI setups, as the
new 8800 GPUs are die-shrunk to 65nm.

The rest of the roadmap takes a decidedly unwelcome skew, as Nvidia
adopts DAAMIT's tactics of rebranding current-gen products with a new
name. The 9800 series will be a small revamp of the 8800, with support
for Tri-SLI and some tweaked clocks and specs. The 9600 will do the
typical trick of being a new mid-range card that doesn't perform as
fast as well, bang for buck, as previous generation cards.

It seems that we won't have anything genuinely new from Nvidia for
quite a while - it's possible that we won't see a truly next-gen
graphics architecture for another nine months. If R700 continues to
see delays, there will be little incentive for Nvidia to push out
anything sooner.

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GeForce 9800 GX2 Exclusive Pics & Specs

NVIDIA's yet-to-be released 9800 GX2 in the "flesh." We reveal some of
the specs and what should be expected.

NVIDIA's yet-to-be released GeForce 9800 GX2 in the "flesh." We reveal
some of the specs and what should be expected.

The best way to think of the GeForce 9800 GX2 card is as an 8800 GPU
that has been die shrunk to 65nm and placed in an SLI configuration in
a "single" card. The 9800 GX2 is very reminiscent of 7950 GX2 of days
past. (And we loved the 7950 GX2 at launch, but terrible support and
diminishing returns soon painted it as one of NVIDIA's biggest
failures since the 5800 series.)

The GeForce 9800 GX2 will launch in late February or early March as it
now stands and will replace the 8800 Ultra (single GPU) card in
NVIDIA's high-end product line up. The 9800 GX2 is said to be at least
30% faster than a 8800 Ultra. While it is not clear from the pictures
below, we are told it will support "Quad SLI."

GeForce 9800 GX2

1. 1GB Frame Buffer

2. Two PCBs

3. Two 65nm GPUs Total

4. 256 Stream Processors Total

All of the information here comes from sources overseas that we
consider trustworthy. Obviously there are some specifications that
could be a bit more clear, especially on the memory bus. We would
expect to see two 768MB frame buffers per GPU here, but that is not
what is spelled out. We are guessing 512MB per GPU currently. Should
we learn of any changes and/or corrections we will certainly update
this page and inform our readers on our daily news page.