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Abdul Raauf
ATI's 3870X2 card is the best buy of the moment, despite the fact slightly more powerful NVIDIA-based video cards exist on the market, but if you consider paying over 50 percent more for a performance gain below 20 percent, in most cases, do as you wish. I don't have anything against NVIDIA, in fact I have seen a lot of excellent NVIDIA-based cards at work, from Riva to the GeForce 8800 series, but when they say that "multi GPU is not the way", something's fishy, especially because ATI has the 3870X2 available, and their 9800 GX2 is currently "on hold"...
Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA, said "If you want to put two GPUs on an add-in card and you deliver the absolute highest performance in the world, the enthusiast that uses that particular PC will certainly tolerate the fact that it’s a much larger solution. But if it’s not the highest performance solution in the world, as in the case of the X2, then it’s just really problematic. You know, there’s no market really for a product that’s larger, louder, and not as high performance. So, I think that GeForce 8800 GTX is still absolutely the best DX10 and highest graphics performance GPU in the world".
Well, Mr. Huang, I think you have some problems with ATI's 3870X2, and you may have even more problems in the future. Think about the Catalyst drivers with full CrossfireX support, and users that will use 2 or 3 such cards, with drivers that had enough time to get better, in a head to head competition with one 9800 GX2 card, which I guess will be pretty expensive when first released, and the new NVIDIA drivers won't probably work perfectly in first place. Do you feel a chill down your spine? If you don't now, you may feel it this spring, as soon as you manage to release the 9800 GX2 (or maybe not...).
Anyway, the 8800 GTX and Ultra still hold the performance crown, and this may be one of the reasons making Jen-Hsun Huang to say that "a single GPU is a better approach". After all, if you have a dual GPU card that fails to work properly in more than just "a few" games, where's the big deal?
These being said, I don't have anything else to add, apart from the fact that I hardly wait to see NVIDIA's 9800 GX2 at work. Most chances are to see it outperform the 3870X2 by a significant margin, but is it going to arrive in time and for the right price tag?
Jen-Hsun Huang, president and CEO of NVIDIA, said "If you want to put two GPUs on an add-in card and you deliver the absolute highest performance in the world, the enthusiast that uses that particular PC will certainly tolerate the fact that it’s a much larger solution. But if it’s not the highest performance solution in the world, as in the case of the X2, then it’s just really problematic. You know, there’s no market really for a product that’s larger, louder, and not as high performance. So, I think that GeForce 8800 GTX is still absolutely the best DX10 and highest graphics performance GPU in the world".
Well, Mr. Huang, I think you have some problems with ATI's 3870X2, and you may have even more problems in the future. Think about the Catalyst drivers with full CrossfireX support, and users that will use 2 or 3 such cards, with drivers that had enough time to get better, in a head to head competition with one 9800 GX2 card, which I guess will be pretty expensive when first released, and the new NVIDIA drivers won't probably work perfectly in first place. Do you feel a chill down your spine? If you don't now, you may feel it this spring, as soon as you manage to release the 9800 GX2 (or maybe not...).
Anyway, the 8800 GTX and Ultra still hold the performance crown, and this may be one of the reasons making Jen-Hsun Huang to say that "a single GPU is a better approach". After all, if you have a dual GPU card that fails to work properly in more than just "a few" games, where's the big deal?
These being said, I don't have anything else to add, apart from the fact that I hardly wait to see NVIDIA's 9800 GX2 at work. Most chances are to see it outperform the 3870X2 by a significant margin, but is it going to arrive in time and for the right price tag?
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