It was about time for Nvidia to come up with a double-gpu card again. The 9800GX2 reminds us about the 7950GX2 and it is said that this card will be the one to support the quad-sli configuration setups. Judging by the looks, there are two PCBs (printed circuit boards) inside, each with one 65nm built gpu (most likely G92s with 128 stream processors), 1GB of video memory (512x2), and two DVI outputs. The expected date of announcement is February 14, 2008. Gamers are barely waiting for this card to be released. Among other ports, there is also an HDMI port near the DVI ones but it hasn't been confirmed whether it will send out 5.1 sound as well besides HD video signal quality, like the standard 2xxx and 3xxx video cards from ATI.

 

A lot of Radeon fans are waiting for this "hottie" to arrive on the market. The reference board is longer than a 2900XT card and thus would require quite a big computer case. It is said that it tops out in performance any 3870 CrossFire setup and that it has both GPUs (2 rv670 chips) running at 750MHz each (probably some more MHz at the official launch). What about the rest? Expect to see everything going on the double - 512MB of DDR4 x2, 2 DVi-to-HDMI ports. Performancewise - more than double - hardware specialists assume that if it does better than a CrossFire setup with 2 cards that have a single core each, obviously the performance will be quite satisfactory for most gamers. And that reminds me  - the developers at Crytek said that Crysis was a game which needs to be played on the next-gen computers in order for the gamer to be able to see all details in high resolution - this might happen a lot sooner than expected actually - due to the increasing speed of development in the PC hardware industry. The estimated price of this card presented at CES 2008 will range around $499.

The latest card from GeCube's list of products from the Radeon 3800 video cards is the GC-HD385P3-E3, a Radeon 3850 with a special cooling system that is.

The video memory is 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 and should be quite effective in the requirements of the games of today. The card is mounted on the mainboard of the computer through the PCI-Express 2.0 slot. The video processing unit is a Radeon HD3850 (RV670PRO), produced under the 55nm standard which helps in reducing the power resources and the cooling requirements. Beside the support for the Direct X 10.1, the card brings 1080p resolution image through the integrated HDMI port including built-in 5.1 surround audio, HDCP and native support for Blu-ray and HD-DVD movies playback. Among other features, the card is fully compatible with Windows Vista and the aero shell interface and the supported Shader Model version is 4.1. Like any other card from the 3800 family, this one is compatible with the ATI CrossFireX™ technology which allows to use two video cards into the same PC, with 2 video card PCI-Express slots, and a CrossFire compatible motherboard chipset. The price ranges around $200 and the card should be available already in all the big PC stores.