It's two GeForce 6800s on a single PCI-E card. This might be a Quadro/Wildcat/FireGL killer. Not much of an advantage can be achieved by having a SLi setup, but it has never been tested with a card like this that has SLi-On-Card.
The chips are the same, the Quadro just has a couple more options activated.
There even used to be a BIOS flash for some older model that would turn your GeForce into a Quadro.
Shut the fuck up, you have no idea what you're talking about. [edit: Dumb kids who read rag sites like HardOCP and swear they know everything. ROFL.]
SoftQuadro just makes the GeForce 4 think it's a Quadro. In comparisons the real Quadro still performs better. God. [edit: The emulation isn't all that great, and you're better off just leaving the GeForce as it is. With Maxtreme a Quadro FX is pretty hard to beat.]
I'd like to hear your stories about Wildcat and FireGL cards, too. LMAO.
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I wasn't even talking about Softquadro. I said "some older model". You know why it's called Quadro4?
Because there were THREE earlier models.
I think I'm wasting my time here.
This card is two cards in one. It has two GPUs running in SLi mode on the card, instead of using both PCI-E slots on the motherboard. In other words, it could be possible to buy two of these cards and therefor have 4 GPUs. With each GPU responsible for a quad of the screen, it most likely would mean great performance at insane resolutions like 2048x1600. Of course, you would need an assfuck giant monitor to appreciate such detail, but I digress.
Also, people won't have to spend $1200 for a SLi setup ($500 for the cards, $200 for the motherboard with dual PCI-E video). Since it fits in one slot, it should work on a standard motherboard that has one slot.
Edit: The top FireGL can refresh 750M verts per second. I'd like to see a Radeon x850 try that.
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rep wrote:It has two GPUs running in SLi mode on the card, instead of using both PCI-E slots on the motherboard. In other words, it could be possible to buy two of these cards and therefor have 4 GPUs.
No it wouldn't you idiot. Each GPU needs at least 8 PCI-E lanes, the SLI chipsets only have twenty (16 of which are dedicated to the graphics ports).
Even if it was technically possible to run such a setup, it would probably be slower cause each GPU only had 4 lanes.
Thanks for posting information about future, and no doubt better motherboards. Are you on an nForce 5, buddy? Because by the time this card hits the market, you'll have eaten more buckets of shit. [Edit: Jesus Christ, he thinks he's Brent or something, lmao! Go write another review, and make sure you overclock your glasses and braces. Nerd.]
Edit: The whole running two of these things is entirely speculative on what they can do with the technology already laid down anyway. Since you're blind to see that there is no SLi daughterboard connector, I suppose you think that this card in particular could do it, lol. Look before you eat shit.
SLI only increases your framerate if the application is specifically coded to take advantage.
You're an idiot, rep. Why buy 4 consumer grade video cards to produce some cloudcuckooland video setup when you could just get a pro card which is 5 times as powerfull?
SLi sucks in comparison to the original 3DFX SLi. This is a well known fact. The original SLi worked just like you would think it would. In Quake 2, I had friends who got double their original framerate at any resolution.
This new nVidia SLi is equal (or lower in a lot of benchmarks) to using just one card. The only advantage you see is when you run games at extremely high resolutions, 1600x1200 and up. Benches I've seen have SLi setups beating single 6800s in games like DOOM 3, Half-Life 2, and FarCry at high resolutions by a factor of 1.8 and higher.
Inphlict: It is ironic, however making a single thread about a piece of technology per year is much different than discussing the inner workings of said technology.
There is a difference between people who talk about Superman, and those who talk about S.T.A.R. Corps.
redfella wrote:I have enough GPU power... its my shitty mobo holding me back at the moment. Can you do anything about that?
Try voting Democrat.
Ah, with irony and undertones hinting at how the economy truly could be. Fake or not, I've noticed that in times of democracy under democrats, we've less violence and more prosperity.
Not much of an advantage can be achieved by having a SLi setup, but it has never been tested with a card like this that has SLi-On-Card. 
