Today, NVIDIA launches their new flagship video card, the GeForce 9800 GX2. For your wallet-busting $600, it sure does boast some impressive numbers — and the plethora of reviews that sprouted up today had mostly praise for its supreme performance.
[H]ard|OCP enjoyed both the thoughtful design (including warning lights and the centrally-mounted fan) as well as the ability to hold its own against a pair of its top SLI competitor the 8800GTS, but warns frugal gamers against it because a pair of 8800GTs are simply a much better value.
Full press release follows:
NVIDIA Launches the Fastest Graphics Card on the Planet
New Generation Dual GPU solution provides a complete, high definition entertainment experience for the PC
The NVIDIA GeForce 9800GX2 is the latest graphics card to revolutionise your PC experience. GeForce 9800 GX2 gives the best gaming performance in the world, HybridPower means a quiet, low power and more environmentally friendly PC and PureVideo HD takes your PC to the cutting edge of High Definition.
Bar None the fastest Graphics Card on the Planet
The GeForce 9800GX2 is at the cutting edge of technology; with 256 screaming fast processor cores and a 1GB total framebuffer, all running through PCI Express 2.0, means the GeForce 9800GX2 is designed from the ground up for Gaming at Extreme HD resolutions.
NVIDIA Hybrid Power – gives you power when you need it most
Combining a GeForce 9800GX2 with one of the latest motherboards featuring NVIDIA’s nForce 790i Ultra SLI chipset makes your system ready for Hybrid Power. Not all applications require a high end GeForce discrete GPU, for times such as these an integrated GeForce GPU can run these applications perfectly while saving power and therefore the environment. The intelligent Hybrid Power system can also combine the power of the GeForce 9800GX2 with the onboard graphics for maximum performance.
PureVideo HD – make your PC the centre of your digital home
PureVideo HD makes High Definition content come to life on your PC – whether video’s are downloaded, streamed, or on Blu-Ray – even the most demanding HD content plays back effortlessly thanks to the best HD engine available on the market. But it is not only the speed of HD rendering that is improved, with PureVideo HD films comes to life with dynamic Contrast Enhancement and automatic enhancements to Greens, Blues, & Skin Tones
The NVIDIA GeForce 9800GX2 Makes all of the above possible, for the very best graphics on the planet there is no other choice.
Processor Cores
256 (128 per GPU)
Core Clock
600MHz
Shader Clock
1500MHz
Memory Clock
1000MHz
Memory
1GB GDDR3 (512MB per GPU)
Power Connector
8-pin + 6-pin
Board Power
197W
Thermal
Patent Pending Integrated Cooling Solution
Outputs
2x DVI-DL + HDMI
If you’ve got the benjamins, Newegg has five flavors of the 9800 GX2 currently available for your persuasion.
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