NVIDIA slips GTX 280 GX2 rumor

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A statement made by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang during the firm's fiscal Q2 2009 earnings sparked rumours that the graphics firm might be working on a dual-GPU card with two GeForce GTX 280:

Hans Mosesmann -- Jen-Hsun, a couple of questions; the way NVIDIA introduced GPUs into the marketplace, a single GPU at the high-end and you cascade going forward into higher volume segments -- has that strategy changed in relation to what AMD has done here with their strategy?

Jen-Hsun Huang -- As, you might recall, we were actually the world’s first GX2 and I forget which chip we did it with -- was it 7900? I think it was 7900 we introduced the world’s first GX2.

We’ve got nothing against GX2s and recently, we just had another GX2 with the 9800 GX2. It has its advantages and disadvantages and so I don’t know that there’s any particular philosophical approach that we take here. We just have to look at the market and build the right product.

From a scalability perspective, single-chip is always better than two. I mean, if you take a look at the scalability of crossfire and you compare that to SLI, if you take your top 200 most popular games, SLI or GeForce GTX 280, the scalability across those 200 games is 100%. Every one of those 200 games are going to scale when you put a GTX on it. When you put SLI on it, those 200 games, the vast majority of them will scale, maybe 90% of them will scale. And with crossfire, a lot less will scale. And so when you use an X2 with crossfire, you are just going to see a lot less scalability. There are many games that don’t scale and there are some games that even get worse in scaling.

So you just have to take it case by case and -- but we think our approach is the right approach. The best approach is to do both. If we could offer a single chip solution at 399, it certainly doesn’t preclude us from building a two-chip solution at something higher. So I think that having the right price, right product at each price point and the best-performing product at each price point is the most important thing.
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Look who's the daddy! Not ATi.
 
Look who's the daddy! Not ATi.
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Performance-wise, maybe not, but considering that the card's probably going to cost more than the city of Rome filled up with prestige virgins (and of course anyone would pick an Italian city full of virgins over a more expensive box that paints pictures), I think people are going to think of ATi as their father figure for a little longer (or go to Rome for a...vacation).
 
if they release drivers for 3 of them in sli, i might be all over it, unless it costs $600+ a card, then im not that happy
 
ATi is my daddy because ATi actually care about making a card that is right for real people and builds there cards with efficiency in mind even though few people buy them for that reason
 
That's why it is so easy for ATi to suddenly dominate nVidia. ATi has prices that are a lot more affordable to the common gamer :D
 
GX280? Lol!

I would say that it's a typical American(post-divorce) custody battle...

It might be against the law to run those as Quad SLI.. The 9800GX2's come pretty close to being that way, the cops look at me pretty strange...
 
I don't believe this at all. It won't move them forward at all. Not to mention its very well known that Nvidia plans to release a gddr5 card Q4 2008 - Q1 2009. This wouldn't make any sense. So if nvidia releases a dual card it will be dual gddr5 cards after they release their gddr5 cards... dual gtx280's = fail.. its basically 9800gx2 v1.1
 
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