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High-end D8E has two G92s

by on20 November 2007

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Under the dual PCB hood


We found out that D8E, Nvidia's high-end answer to Radeon 3870 X2 dual chip card, is indeed based on two G92 chips.

We suspected that Nvidia would use them, and finally we can confirm this. This card is planned for early Q1 and it looks like it will be faster than R680. The logic behind it is quite simply, as we suspected:  if a single G92 leaves RV670 in the dust, then two of Nvidia’s chip should be faster than two of ATI’s.

Nvidia will have two PCBs interconnected with two power connectors, one 3x2 pin and one 4x2 pin and we’ve seen that ATI will use the same. This board will need more than 200W, but it will be the real high-end deal.

We guess that Nvidia needs to focus on driver development, as Crysis still doesn’t work in SLI and the dual chip card needs a great SLI driver.

Last modified on 21 November 2007
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