The chaps over at
Engadget
have posted a batch of pictures of a NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 that was on
display at CeBIT. The shots show the same large, sealed dual-slot cooler
we've already seen in leaked shots, not to mention the presence of an HDMI port
next to the two DVI ports on the card's I/O panel. At the top of the card, one
can see a pair of power connectors - one eight-pin connector and one six-pin
connector, both of the PCI Express type - as well as an SLI connector.
Evidently, folks will be able to pair up 9800 GX2 cards in Quad SLI setups. They
haven't posted specifications for the card yet, but information recently posted
by
Chinese rumor sites
suggests the 9800 GX2 will have two G92 graphics processors clocked at 600MHz
with 1500MHz shaders and 128 stream processors. Each GPU will reportedly be
paired with 512MB of 1000MHz GDDR3 memory (that's an "effective" memory speed of
2000MHz, once you take the clock-doubling properties of GDDR3 RAM into account).
In essence, the 9800 GX2 should be akin to a pair of GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB
graphics cards running in SLI mode. According to Engadget, the 9800 GX2 will
launch by the end of this month.
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