Well to be fair it was not relevant in Dec at the gtx 580 launch either, but thats history. They are both 40nm parts with 1gb dual gpu's, they will be compared.
No, you are wrong just the same gpu, not the same ram,clocks or cards.
No, you can mix a DDR3 card with a DDR5 card, the clocks will adjust to the lowest card and you need to use the same cards. Thats why you can SLI a 275 with a 295 when they are the same GPU.
Dddr3 / ddr5 what? are you talking about?
A gtx275 and gtx295 are not the exact same card and back then you did need the ame exact card.
Things have changed Skurge, go do some googling buddy, you are wrong.
You can't SLI cards with different types or amounts of RAM (hence the GDDR3, GDDR5 comparison)
You are basically saying I am right by saying the 275 and the 295 are not the same card, but the same GPU and you can't SLI them.
I think I am out of touch with reality. But how exactly does that make sense when you can get 2x HD6850s for $300 or 2x GTX560s for $400?
Also, 1 PCB is cheaper than 2 PCBs. :hmm:
I suppose there is a niche market for people who are willing to pay extra because they have a small case that won't accomodate 2 cards. But it just seems a little unfair to charge them a premium for what is essentially the same 2 GPUs in a slightly different package.
This card is one generation late to the fray. 460's are cheap nowadays. If this card is more than $299.99 it's not that good a value.
They should have put their time toward dual 560 setup.
Someone linked us this picture in the 590 rumor thread insisting it a was a GTX 590.. oh... that's right..
Or that AMD's driver are better at using the CPU.
Showing 90% GPU usage is one thing, we want to know the scaling. Even in the 5870 days. QUADCROSSFIRE scaled better than quad SLI, but it was still poor, the 6990 shows how its done.
EDIT: Where is that 3GB palit, I don't see it on the egg.
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Originally Posted by Grooveriding
Someone linked us this picture in the 590 rumor thread insisting it a was a GTX 590.. oh... that's right..
Yeah, I wonder if that somebody will point out he wasn't right this time.
I believe at the time, tri-sli was better than quadfire and quad-sli...therefore no one bothered with it!. Ill have to go find the benchies as it was poor from both camps!
You could be right, I might have to have another look.
But yeah, they were both poor, part of the reason was Nvidia added quad SLI support to their drivers basically for people who wanted to break 3Dmark records.
I couldnt find Quad Crossfire vs Quad SLI, but this is the best I can do.
http://translate.google.com/transla...test/&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&twu=1
No quad SLI? I'm no longer interested in it then.
Exactly and why 460's and not 560's? EVGA is in a tailspin. I'd rather get two 460 DirectCU's
well technically all that means is that it uses more than 300 watts.Because it uses 2 8pin there's the possibility it uses 375W. Hopefully, it's just to allow O/C headroom (and the VRM can handle it). If it does use 375W ALL of that heat is going to be dumped inside the case, with that design. The 6990 only dumps ~1/2 it's heat inside the case and there have been reports of pretty substantial temp increases to other components. People REALLY need to consider there case's airflow before getting these "outlaw" (my term) cards.
2x external exhaust reference designs (2x6990/50, 2x460) are a better solution, IMO.