GeForce 7950 GX2 reference and XFX!!! @ Guru3d

[werty316]

Holy crap holy crap holy crap; gaze and behold the 7950GX2 and its greatness.

GeForce 7950 GX2 reference and XFX!!! @ Guru3d (http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/353/)

That's right people, come and see come and see! NVIDIA officially gave birth to Siamese twins today! I promise, I'll try not to make any twin jokes okay? So what is it about Siamese twins that makes them so special? Well they look alike, you feel for them yet they are a little peculiar aren't they? And yes that's exactly what is going on with today's tested products. And I do say products as we will be testing both the NVIDIA reference design GeForce 7950 GX2 and XFX GeForce 7950 GX2 "XXX" edition, which obviously is a pre-overclocked version of the reference model of the card.

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GeForce 7950 GX2 reference and XFX!!! @ Guru3d (http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/353/)

Here are others reviews of this monster card:
XFX 7950 GX2 XXX @ Bjorn3d ;) (http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=925)

NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2 Preview @ nVNews (http://www.nvnews.net/previews/geforce_7950_gx2/index.shtml)

NVIDIA's GeForce 7950 GX2 & Forceware Rel. 90 @ Hothardware (http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articleid=826&cid=2)

[Bio-Hazard]

There must be at least a half a dozen reviews or so up around the net already.........;)

[werty316]

Yeah when I was look around reading news I saw these all over and they are everywhere. I didn't even know the 7950GX2 was to be released today.

[Bio-Hazard]

Yup, first day of Computex (http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MTkzMTcsLCxobmV3cywsLDE=), or however they spell it.

[Kougar]

Yep... have another press release bit, but with a not to shabby pic gallery of the 7950GX2 thrown in http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/06/05/nvidia_doubles_up_geforce_7950gx2/ (http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/06/05/nvidia_doubles_up_geforce_7950gx2/)

[mousiness]

bjorn3d just reviewed that card and WOW, QUAD SLI HAS 2GIGS OF MEMORY IF ITS IN QUAD SLI MODE!!!

EDIT: The dell site gave me clues to expect the gx2 soon because it was on sale as an option on the xps700

[Scott]

**** that reminds me to update my signature.

[werty316]

**** that reminds me to update my signature.

:shock: SLi?


Talk about the price too for us Canadians:
Thats actually not bad considering a 7900GTX costs around $600CAD

BFG 7950GX2 - $774.99 (http://www.pccanada.com/viewitem.asp?id=4686)

Ncix also has the 7950GX2 from BFG, VGA, Gigbyte, and XFX

BFG 7950GX2 - $799.50CAD (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=18627&vpn=BFGR7950GX21GBOCE&manufacture=BFG%20Technologies)

eVGA 7950GX2 - $750.00CAD (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=18724&vpn=01G-P2-N592&manufacture=eVGA)

Gigabyte 7950GX2 - $825.60CAD (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=18731&vpn=GV-3D1-7950-RH&manufacture=Gigabyte)

XFX 7950GX2 - $771.00CAD (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=18671&vpn=PV-T71U-ZDL9&manufacture=XFX)

XFX 7950GX2 Extreme - $791.70CAD (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=18672&vpn=PV-T71U-ZDF9&manufacture=XFX)

XFX 7950GX2 XXX - $829.99CAD (http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=18670&vpn=PV-T71U-ZDD9&manufacture=XFX)

[mousiness]

exactly what i was just gonna edit, great minds think alike lol

[Kougar]

**** that reminds me to update my signature.

So out of curiosity, how do they compare to your previous SLI rig? I'm sure the power draw is much less, in the very least...

[werty316]

Power Consumption Levels:

Low power consumption and being 'green friendly' is all the rage in the market today. We took a pair of the GeForce 7800GTX 512's and measured them at idle and load versus the overclocked XFX GeForce 7950GX2 and the results were shocking. Let's take a look at the test system used for power consumption testing.

*AMD A64 X2 5000+ (AM2) Processor
*ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluexe Motherboard
*Nautilus 500 Water Cooling by Corsair Memory
*4GB Corsair PC-6400C3 800MHz DDR2 Memory
*Thermaltake 750W ToughPower Power Supply

We looked at the total system power consumption at idle with nothing running on the desktop.

Reference NVIDIA 7800GTX 512's - 177W
XFX's GeForce 7950GX2 XXX Edition - 154W

At idle the GeForce 7950GX2 uses roughly 23W less power than a pair of 7800GTX 512's. Let's now run a 3D application like Futuremarks 3DMark06 and see what they run like under a load.

Reference NVIDIA 7800GTX 512's - 401W
XFX's GeForce 7950GX2 XXX Edition - 284W
Quad-SLi Action! (http://www.legitreviews.com/article/354/3/)

Talk about a big difference :shock:

[Scott]

System runs great, it is faster than my old cards and is not as loud.

[liqnit]

that card is really a killer
it looks like Nvidia has done it again...
wonder if combine this with Aegia physics card ....
congrats on the card scott

[Kougar]

Aegia might be onto something, but I won't get interested until they start shipping a PCIe x4 edition to their cards! With all the noise ATI is generating over their own x1000 model cards doubling as PPUs, it looks like the whole physics thing is here to stay... so with any luck that'll be enough to get the game (And other) developers on the bandwagon, and then we'll get to see something come of PPUs in the first place :)

Thanks Werty for those numbers!

[Bio-Hazard]

So out of curiosity, how do they compare to your previous SLI rig? I'm sure the power draw is much less, in the very least...

As if Scott ever had to worry about power draw of anything with the PSU that he's running.................:mrgreen:

[Scott]

Hey somebody has to keep those nuclear power plant guys in Alabama employed.

[Kougar]

As if Scott ever had to worry about power draw of anything with the PSU that he's running.................:mrgreen:

Well, just wait until Scott upgrades to the XFX 7950GX2 "XXX" card that I have heard about... and then gets a second one for quad-SLI ;) He'll need the extra headroom!

Edit: I take that back... NewEgg already is selling the "XXX" GX2s http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150159 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150159)

[mousiness]

System runs great, it is faster than my old cards and is not as loud.
this card is a great value to any SLI enthusiast, cheaper than 7900GTX SLI, faster, cooler and ofcorurse quad-sli, and its so lame that dell still offers the SLI 7900GTX in their new xps700 and its more expensive than single 7950GX2,tsktsktsk tricking average joes again

[werty316]

Quad-SLi of course if you have two. Hopefully nVidia will make more optomized drivers that takes advantage of it; there are the new beta v91.31 which I haven't tried yet.