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Possible new 300 series card

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:23 pm
by InspectahACE
TweakTown surprised me the other day.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/11826/nvi ... index.html


Never thought I'd see that..although real early,it's a bit shifty to leave it with 896 per gpu though..hopefully it's not too much of a wallet rapist

Re: Possible new 300 series card

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:09 pm
by mr_noname111
holy crap! That can't be real can it? :-k

edit: Hah! April fools?

Re: Possible new 300 series card

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:46 pm
by InspectahACE
I thought that myself too honestly, but there's a bit of coincidence with how they're remaking the 295 into one pcb with the 2 gpus(so I've read anyway)..so I wouldn't put it past them. It does pose a thought on whether 8 gpus are possible

Re: Possible new 300 series card

Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:17 pm
by skier
InspectahACE wrote:I thought that myself too honestly, but there's a bit of coincidence with how they're remaking the 295 into one pcb with the 2 gpus(so I've read anyway)..so I wouldn't put it past them. It does pose a thought on whether 8 gpus are possible
it looks like its real to me :\ and you can guarantee the enthusiast market will climb to higher numbers of GPUs, i doubt it will slow down until there are 8 per PCB, and it is perfected.

Re: Possible new 300 series card

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 11:41 am
by InspectahACE
damn skier lol..you went and jumped the gun and put 8 on one pcb..I was just thinkin Octo-SLI..I like the idea of 8 gpus on on board tho..

Re: Possible new 300 series card

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:02 pm
by skier
what may seem far fetched now may become the norm in a couple years, i'm sure back when the first pentiums came out no one was expecting quad or 6-core CPUs!

Re: Possible new 300 series card

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 2:04 pm
by InspectahACE
hehe true..I know I didn't expect even a dual core really.

Re: Possible new 300 series card

Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:30 pm
by mr_noname111
Well as die size keeps getting smaller and power consumption decreases, maybe it'll be possible :supz:

Re: Possible new 300 series card

Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 6:29 pm
by Kougar
That fan would have to be damn loud...

I'd hate having one of these cards. 4x the cores & memory, that's just 4x the risk of parts failing. It'd probably be a high RMA part and not last very long. :|