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^Three possible extreme graphics cards setups currently. From left to right, 4-way CrossfireX with 4 Radeon ATI HD 6970s, Quad CrossfireX with 2 Radeon AMD HD 6990s, 4-way SLI with 4 Nvidia GeForce GTX 580s, Quad-SLI 2 Nvidia GeForce GTX590s.

 

AMD

 

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AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series:

  • AMD Radeon HD 6990
  • AMD Radeon HD 6970
  • AMD Radeon HD 6950
  • AMD Radeon HD 6870
  • AMD Radeon HD 6850
  • AMD Radeon HD 6790
  • AMD Radeon HD 6450

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^ Top left to right, AMD Radeon HD 6990, AMD Radeon HD 6970, AMD Radeon HD 6950, AMD Radeon HD 6870, AMD Radeon HD 6850.

^ Bottom left to right, AMD Radeon HD 6790, AMD Radeon HD 6670, AMD Radeon HD 6570, AMD Radeon HD 6450.

 

ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series:

  • ATI Radeon HD 5970
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870
  • ATI Radeon HD 5850
  • ATI Radeon HD 5830
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770
  • ATI Radeon HD 5750
  • ATI Radeon HD 5670
  • ATI Radeon HD 5570
  • ATI Radeon HD 5550
  • ATI Radeon HD 5450

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^ Top left to right, ATI Radeon HD 5970, ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6, ATI Radeon HD 5870, ATI Radeon HD 5850, ATI Radeon HD 5830.

^ Bottom left to right, ATI Radeon HD 5770, ATI Radeon HD 5750, ATI Radeon HD 5670, ATI Radeon HD 5570, ATI Radeon HD 5550, ATI Radeon HD 5450.

 

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^Non-reference HD 5970 designs. Non-reference HD 5870 designs. Non-reference HD 5850 designs.

 

 

Nvidia

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Nvidia GeForce 500 Series:

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 590
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 580
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 570
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 560
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 520

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^Top left, Nvidia GeForce GTX 590.

^Middle left to right, Nvidia GeForce GTX 580, Nvidia GeForce GTX 570.

^Second Bottom left to right, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560, Nvidia GTX 550 Ti.

^Bottom left, Nvidia GeForce GT 520.

 

Nvidia GeForce 400 Series:

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 480
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 470
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 465
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 460
  • Nvidia GeForce GTS 450
  • Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 (OEM)
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 440
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 440 (OEM)
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 430
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 430 (OEM)
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 420 (OEM)

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^Top left to right, Nvidia GeForce GTX 480, Nvidia GeForce GTX 470, Nvidia GeForce GTX 465, Nvidia GeForce GTX 460.

^Middle left, Nvidia GeForce GTS 450.

^Bottom left,Nvidia GeForce GT 440,Nvidia GeForce GT 440 (OEM),Nvidia GeForce GT 430, Nvidia GeForce GT 420 (OEM).

 

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^Non-reference Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 designs. Non-reference Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 designs. Non-reference Nvidia GeForce GTX 465 designs.

 

 

Notes:

  • ATI Radeon HD 6000 series and Nvidia GeForce 500 series are the newest cards currently, and they support DirectX 11.
  • AMD is releasing brand new AMD Radeon HD 6000 series GPUs, the next generation of DirectX 11 GPUs.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6990 is a flagship fastest dual GPU card from AMD.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6990 [Default (BIOS1)]: 830Mhz engine clock speed, 5.10 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power, 1.27 TFLOPs Double Precision Compute Power, 4GB GDDR5 Memory, 1250MHz Memory Clock (5.0 Gbps GDDR5), 320 GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum), TeraScale 3 Unified Processing Architecture (3072 Stream Processors, 192 Texture Units, 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units, 64 Color ROP Units, Dual geometry and dual rendering engines)
  • AMD Radeon HD 6990 [Overclocked (BIOS2)]: 880Mhz engine clock speed, 5.40 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power, 1.37 TFLOPs Double Precision Compute Power, 4GB GDDR5 Memory, 1250MHz Memory Clock (5.0 Gbps GDDR5), 320 GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum), TeraScale 3 Unified Processing Architecture (3072 Stream Processors, 192 Texture Units, 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units, 64 Color ROP Units, Dual geometry and dual rendering engines)
  • AMD Radeon HD 6970 is a highest single GPU performance variant graphics card.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6970: 880Mhz engine clock speed, 1536 Stream Processors, 2GB GDDR5 Memory, 1375MHz Memory Clock (5.5 Gbps GDDR5), 176 GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum), 2.7 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power, 683 GFLOPs Double Precision compute power, Maximum board power: 250W.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6950 is the second highest single GPU performance variant graphics card.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6950: 800Mhz engine clock speed, 1408 Stream Processors, 2GB GDDR5 Memory, 1250MHz Memory Clock (5.0 Gbps GDDR5), 160 GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum), 2.25 TFLOPs Single Precision compute power, 562.5 GFLOPs Double Precision compute power, 562.5 GFLOPs Double Precision compute power, Maximum board power: 225W.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6870 is a mid-high-performance variant graphics card.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6870: 900Mhz engine clock speed, 1120 Stream Processors, 1GB GDDR5 Memory, 1050MHz Memory Clock (GDDR5), 134.4 GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum), 2 TFLOPs compute power, Maximum board power: 151W.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6850 is a mid-high-performance variant graphics card.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6850: 775Mhz engine clock speed, 980 Stream Processors, 1GB GDDR5 Memory, 1000MHz Memory Clock (GDDR5), 128 GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum), 1.5 TFLOPs compute power, Maximum board power: 127W.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6790 is a mid-performance variant graphics card.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6790: 840Mhz engine clock speed, 800 Stream Processors, 1GB GDDR5 Memory, 4.2Gbps Memory Data Rate (GDDR5), 134.4 GB/s memory bandwidth (maximum), 1.34 TFLOPs compute power.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6670
  • AMD Radeon HD 6670: 800Mhz engine clock speed, 512MB-1GB GDDR5 Memory, 1000 MHz memory clock (4.0 Gbps GDDR5), 64 GB/s memory bandwidth, 768 GFLOPS Single Precision compute power.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6570
  • AMD Radeon HD 6570: 650Mhz engine clock speed, 512MB-2GB DDR3 or 512MB-1GB GDDR5 memory, 900 MHz (DDR3) or 1000 MHz (GDDR5) memory clock (1.8 Gbps DDR3 or 4.0 Gbps GDDR5), 28.8 GB/s (DDR3) or 64 GB/s (GDDR5) memory bandwidth, 624 GFLOPS Single Precision compute power.
  • AMD Radeon HD 6450
  • AMD Radeon HD 6450: 625-750 MHz engine clock, 512MB-1GB DDR3/GDDR5 memory, 533-800 MHz DDR3 (1.066-1.6 Gbps) or 800-900 MHz GDDR5 (3.2-3.6 Gbps) memory clock, 8.5-12.8 GB/s (DDR3) or 25.6-28.8 GB/s (GDDR5) memory bandwidth, 200-240 GFLOPS Single Precision compute power.
  • AMD Radeon HD 5970 is the flagship card of Radeon HD 5000 series. This card utilizes two ATI Radeon HD 5800 series graphics processors. Add another ATI Radeon HD 5970 for optimum Quad-CrossFireX performance!
  • ATI Radeon HD 5970: Engine clock speed: 725 MHz, Processing power (single precision): 4.64 TeraFLOPS, Processing power (double precision): 928 GigaFLOPS, Memory clock speed: 1.0 GHz, Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps, Memory bandwidth: 256.0 GB/sec, Maximum board power: 294W.
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 comes in two variants. The launching default model, which bears 1GB GDDR5 memory, can support up to 3 display outputs. The other, known as HD 5870 Eyefinity 6, has 2GB GDDR5 memory, and can support 6 simultaneous displays at most.
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6: Engine clock speed: 850 MHz, Processing power (single precision): 2.72 TeraFLOPS, Processing power (double precision): 544 GigaFLOPS, Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz, Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps, Memory bandwidth: 153.6 GB/sec, Maximum board power: 228W.
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870: Engine clock speed: 850 MHz, Processing power (single precision): 2.72 TeraFLOPS, Processing power (double precision): 544 GigaFLOPS, Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz, Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps, Memory bandwidth: 153.6 GB/sec, Maximum board power: 188W.
  • ATI Radeon HD 5850 is a mid-high-performance variant as compared to ATI Radeon HD 5870.
  • ATI Radeon HD 5850: Engine clock speed: 725 MHz, Processing power (single precision): 2.09 TeraFLOPS, Processing power (double precision): 418 GigaFLOPS, # Memory clock speed: 1 GHz, Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps, Memory bandwidth: 128 GB/sec, Maximum board power: 151W.
  • ATI Radeon HD 5830 is a mid-performance variant as compared to ATI Radeon HD 5850.
  • ATI Radeon HD 5830: Engine clock speed: 800 MHz, Processing power (single precision): 1.792 TeraFLOPS, Processing power (double precision): 358 GigaFLOPS, Memory clock speed: 1 GHz, Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps, Memory bandwidth: 128 GB/sec, Maximum board power: 175W.
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770.
  • ATI Radeon HD 5770: Engine clock speed: 850 MHz, Processing power (single precision): 1.36 TeraFLOPS, Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz, Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps, Memory bandwidth: 76.8 GB/sec, Maximum board power: 108W.
  • ATI Radeon HD 5750
  • ATI Radeon HD 5750: Engine clock speed: 700 MHz, Processing power (single precision): 1.008 TeraFLOPS, Memory clock speed: 1.15 GHz, Memory data rate: 4.6 Gbps, Memory bandwidth: 73.6 GB/sec, Maximum board power: 86W.
  • An updated version of the HD 5670 will launch in the fall of 2010. Instead of being based on the lower-end Redwood GPU architecture, it is expected to be a trimmed-down version of the HD 5700 series cards and to be based on the Juniper architecture
  • ATI Radeon HD 5670
  • ATI Radeon HD 5670:Engine clock speed: 775 MHz, Processing power (single precision): 620 GigaFLOPS, Memory clock speed: 1.0 GHz, Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps, Memory bandwidth: 64 GB/sec, Maximum board power: 64W.
  • ATI Radeon HD 5570
  • ATI Radeon HD 5570:Engine clock speed: 650 MHz, Processing power (single precision): 520 GigaFLOPS, Memory clock speed: DDR3: 900 MHz / GDDR5: 900-1000 MHz, Memory data rate: DDR3: 1.8 Gbps /GDDR5: 3.6-4.0 Gbps, Memory bandwidth: DDR3: 28.8 GB/s / GDDR5: 57.6-64 GB/s, Maximum board power: 39W.
  • ATI Radeon HD 5550
  • ATI Radeon HD 5550:Engine clock speed: 550MHz, Processing power (single precision): 352 GigaFLOPS, Memory clock speed: DDR3: 800-900 MHz / GDDR5: 900-1000 MHz, Memory data rate: DDR3: 1.6 – 1.8 Gbps / GDDR5: 3.6 – 4.0 Gbps, Memory bandwidth: DDR3: 24.5 – 28.8 GB/s / GDDR5: 57.6 – 64 GB/s, Maximum board power: 39W.
  • ATI Radeon HD 5450
  • ATI Radeon HD 5450:Engine clock speed: 650MHz, Processing power (single precision): 104 GigaFLOPS, Memory clock speed: 400 MHz DDR2 and up to 800 MHz DDR3, Memory data rate: 0.8 Gbps DDR2 and up to 1.6 Gbps DDR3, Memory bandwidth: 6.4 GB/sec (DDR2) and up to 12.8 GB/sec (DDR3), Typical power: 19.1W.

  • Fermi is the internal name for Nvidia's GTX 400 and GTX 500 series architecture.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 590 is Nvidia's answer to a dual GPU solution card. Featuring two GeForce GTX 580's GF110 GPU chips, this card is seriously powerful enough to crush any competition! Add another GeForce GTX 590 to get a quad-SLI configuration!
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 590: CUDA Cores 512, Graphics Clock 612MHz, Processor Clock 1224MHz, Memory Clock 3420MHz, Standard Memory Config 3072MB GDDR5 (a.k.a. 3GB GDDR5), Memory Interface Width 2x384-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 97 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 365W, Minimum Recommended System Power 700W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 is the flagship card in the market currently. It replaces Nvidia GeForce GTX480, a single GPU card that supports SLI, 3-way SLI and even 4-way SLI configurations!
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 580: CUDA Cores 512, Graphics Clock 772MHz, Processor Clock 1544MHz, Memory Clock 2004MHz, Standard Memory Config 1536MB GDDR5, Memory Interface Width 384-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 97 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 244W, Minimum Recommended System Power 600W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 has almost every good stuff GTX 580 has, at a cheaper price point but sacrifices some performance.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 570: CUDA Cores 480, Graphics Clock 732MHz, Processor Clock 1464MHz, Memory Clock 1900MHz, Standard Memory Config 1280MB GDDR5, Memory Interface Width 320-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 97 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 219W, Minimum Recommended System Power 550W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti is the most bang-for-buck performance graphics card today.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti: CUDA Cores 384, Graphics Clock 822MHz, Processor Clock 1645MHz, Memory Clock (Gbps) 4008, Standard Memory Config 1024MB GDDR5, Memory Interface Width 256-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 99 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 170W, Minimum Recommended System Power 500W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 560, a younger brother to the Ti variant, delivers an awesome gaming experience in its price class for games running at 1080p.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 560: CUDA Cores 336, Graphics Clock 810-950MHz, Processor Clock 1620-1900MHz, Memory Clock (MHz) 2002-2200, Standard Memory Config 1024MB GDDR5, Memory Interface Width 256-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 99 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 150W, Minimum Recommended System Power 450W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti is one of the cheapest DirectX11 graphics card today.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti: CUDA Cores 192, Graphics Clock 900MHz, Processor Clock 1800MHz, Memory Clock (Gbps) 4100, Standard Memory Config 1024MB GDDR5, Memory Interface Width 192-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 100 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 116W, Minimum Recommended System Power 400W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 520 is Nvidia's entry-level graphics card today.
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 520: CUDA Cores 48, Graphics Clock 810MHz, Processor Clock 1620MHz, Memory Clock (MHz) 900 (DRR3), Standard Memory Config 1024MB (DDR3), Memory Interface Width 64-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 102 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 29W, Minimum Recommended System Power 300W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 is the flagship card of the 400 series cards. It is a single GPU card, can support SLI, 3-way SLI and even 4-way SLI configurations!
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 480: CUDA Cores 480, Graphics Clock 700MHz, Processor Clock 1401MHz, Memory Clock 1848MHz, Standard Memory Config 1536MB GDDR5, Memory Interface Width 384-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 105 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 250W, Minimum Recommended System Power 600W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 is the middle end variant as compared to Nvidia GeForce GTX 480.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 470: CUDA Cores 448, Graphics Clock 607MHz, Processor Clock 1215MHz, Memory Clock 1674MHz, Standard Memory Config 1280MB GDDR5, Memory Interface Width 320-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 105 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 215W, Minimum Recommended System Power 550W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 465 is the lower end variant as compared to GeForce GTX 470 and GeForce GTX 480.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 465: CUDA Cores 352, Graphics Clock 607MHz, Processor Clock 1215MHz, Memory Clock 1603MHz, Standard Memory Config 1024MB GDDR5, Memory Interface Width 256-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 105 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 200W, Minimum Recommended System Power 550W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 is designed for mainstream users, comes in two variants, a 1GB GDDR5 memory variant and a lower 768MB GDDR5 memory variant.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 1GB GDDR5: CUDA Cores 336, Graphics Clock 675MHz, Processor Clock 1350MHz, Memory Clock 1800MHz, Standard Memory Config 1GB GDDR5, Memory Interface Width 256-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 104 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 160W, Minimum Recommended System Power 450W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 768MB GDDR5: CUDA Cores 336, Graphics Clock 675MHz, Processor Clock 1350MHz, Memory Clock 1800MHz, Standard Memory Config 768MB GDDR5, Memory Interface Width 192-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 104 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 160W, Minimum Recommended System Power 450W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 SE: CUDA Cores 228, Graphics Clock 650MHz, Processor Clock 1300MHz, Memory Clock 1700MHz, Standard Memory Config 768MB GDDR5, Memory Interface Width 256-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 104 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 160W, Minimum Recommended System Power 450W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 is currently new mainstream bang-for-the-buck graphics card.
  • Nvidia GeForce GTS 450 1GB GDDR5: CUDA Cores 192, Graphics Clock 783MHz, Processor Clock 1566MHz, Memory Clock 1804MHz, Standard Memory Config 1GB GDDR5, Memory Interface Width 128-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 100 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 56W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 440
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 440: CUDA Cores 96, Graphics Clock 810MHz, Processor Clock 1620MHz, Memory Clock 1600 (GDDR5) or 900 (DDR3), Standard Memory Config 512MB (GDDR5) or 1GB (DDR3), Memory Interface Width 128-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 98 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 65W, Minimum Recommended System Power 300W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 440 (OEM) is only available for OEMs only.
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 440 (OEM): CUDA Cores 144, Graphics Clock 594MHz, Processor Clock 1189MHz, Memory Clock 800MHz or 900MHz, Standard Memory Config 1.5 GB or 3.0 GB GDDR3, Memory Interface Width 192-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 100 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 106W, Minimum Recommended System Power 400W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 430 is specifically designed to provide the horsepower needed to power today's digital media PCs and provide the high definition video and audio experiences that desktop customers demand.
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 430: CUDA Cores 96, Graphics Clock 700MHz, Processor Clock 1400MHz, Memory Clock 900MHz, Standard Memory Config 1 GB DDR3/GDDR5(2GB per GPU), Memory Interface Width 128-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 98 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 49W, Minimum Recommended System Power 300W.
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 420 (OEM) is only available for OEMs only.
  • Nvidia GeForce GT 420 (OEM): CUDA Cores 48, Graphics Clock 700MHz, Processor Clock 1400MHz, Memory Clock 900MHz, Standard Memory Config 2GB DDR3, Memory Interface Width 128-bit, Maximum GPU Temperature 105 C, Maximum Graphics Card Power 50W.

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Great graphic cards :thumbsup: ..

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Four Way SLI, for when you truly have no life and the slightest frame drop will kill you. :P

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Four Way SLI, for when you truly have no life and the slightest frame drop will kill you. :P

 

Not very ideal for normal users, a single GTX 480 produced way too much heat and you require a lot of power. And you multiply this by 4, oh dear. Nuclear power plant needed.

 

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See in that last pic, all that power is wasted on that tiny little screen. If you are going to do that, you might as well have a nice big 50" screen to look at, ya know.

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I don't need help. I know what I'm going to do with my next system and it will be cheaper than using high-end cards.

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Do you use such a graphic card Mal?.

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Do you use such a graphic card Mal?.

 

I used a single non-reference Nvidia GTX 260 card at this point of time. At the moment, it has served me pretty well. As much as I am tempted to grab the newer Direct X 11 GPUs, I decided not to, because firstly, I will be wasting too much money. Secondly, it boils down to either ATI 5000 series or Nvidia 400 series. As much as ATI's offering is so competitive and interesting, I favor more towards Nvidia because of PhysX and Cuda. However, Nvidia disappoints me with the Fermi based GPUs as there are complaints of high power consumption and high amount of heat produced. So no upgrades for me now until when I see a need to phase out my GTX 260. By then I'll probably get 2 pieces of dual GPU cards for quad-SLI fun. (or its just a dream...)

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Four Way SLI, for when you truly have no life and the slightest frame drop will kill you. :P

 

Depends, i've built a machine for a girl with a rich daddy which had quad SLI'd GTX 295's. Because thats exactly the setup you need for WOW and facebook. I've built one with 3xSLI'd GTX 285's for a 60 year old guy who was into photo editing..

 

Quad SLI's for folders and overclockers from my experience. I wouldn't recommend it for gamers unless you live in the antarctic or have it built in a fish tank full of de-ionised water. They get seriously warm, almost XBOX 360 warm (if thats not too much of an overstatement).

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Depends, i've built a machine for a girl with a rich daddy which had quad SLI'd GTX 295's. Because thats exactly the setup you need for WOW and facebook. I've built one with 3xSLI'd GTX 285's for a 60 year old guy who was into photo editing..

 

Say what? :o

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Say what? :o

 

I was being ironic.

 

You don't really need anything past a HD5870 on most games to get great performance. The only time you'd need the power of a dual core card or an SLI setup is if you have a monitor thats 22"+ and youre running 8xAA 16xAF.

 

Or you could scrap SLI & Crossfire altogether and buy an MSI Big Bang Fuzion and run your HD5870 along-side a GTX 285 in X-Mode.

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I'm rather unimpressed by the performance of Fermi. Too hot and needs too much power.

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I'm rather unimpressed by the performance of Fermi. Too hot and needs too much power.

 

Precisely, and the long delay of the launch, low yield during manufacturing (less than 10%?), resulting in low number of cards to release, and selling the cards at a ridiculous cost. I'm not anti-Nvidia or something, just disappointed with Nvidia. ATI wins this time round.

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Today is the official launch of Nvidia's GeForce GTX 465! For those who wants to get a Fermi card for less than USD $300, this is it!

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Or perhaps this?

 

ASUS ARES 5970.

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Yeah i saw that a few months back on tom's hardware i think. I thought it was just a rumour and they had'nt released one for review yet. Its supposed to be the successor to the ASUS Mars 4gb GTX295 with the two 285 cores. I'd like to see how it compares to the Sapphire model.

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Technology is meant to be improving making things smaller and more accessible.

 

It seems no one told these, guys as video cards just get bigger, though to be fair most of that card is the heatsink and fan. But still.

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Technology is meant to be improving making things smaller and more accessible.

 

It seems no one told these, guys as video cards just get bigger, though to be fair most of that card is the heatsink and fan. But still.

 

Second that, that is indeed ironic somehow. Interestingly, other than graphic cards, even motherboard sizes increased exponentially, the last time we heard of regular micro-ATX and standard ATX form factor, now we have crazy stuff such as E-ATX and XL-ATX form factors!

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Actually, the problem is that we've nearly hit the maximum potential for our current information storage technology. The alternative is to make stuff bigger to accommodate the limitations until a new type of data storage technology can be invented.

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Technology is meant to be improving making things smaller and more accessible.

 

It seems no one told these, guys as video cards just get bigger, though to be fair most of that card is the heatsink and fan. But still.

 

They are getting smaller you just can't see it. Only a few years ago we've been using cards with 120nm transistors, now ATI have cards with 40nm transistors, its just in order to increase the amount of GPU power you have to add more transistors and more memory so its a two way street. The components are getting smaller but the cards are getting bigger to compensate for new games, hence nVIDIA's reasoning for a 530mm2 die (LoL). Dont forget the quality of the games released nowadays, they are very bloated and need more graphics power to run.

 

On what Mal said, ASUS and MSI are realeasing gaming Mirco-ATX boards now what with the LGA1156 socket Intel CPU's having an integrated north bridge. Meaning that the common gaming board won't need to be XXL-ATX unless you plan on having 10 PCI-E lanes for whatever sick purpose.

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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 460 (not to be confused with the older speculative name of GTX 465), is expected to be the company's weapon of choice to take on the lower-end of ATI Radeon HD 5800 series, and Radeon HD 5770. Based on the new 40 nm GF104 GPU, the GTX 460 will step up competition in the DirectX 11 compliant performance GPU category.

 

The specifications so far known show that the GPU will make use of all the components available on the GF104, which include 240 CUDA cores, and will feature 768 MB of GDDR5 memory across a 192-bit wide memory interface. Apart from basic specs, the board's TDP too will be much lesser than that of the GeForce GTX 480, at 180W. It comes with the usual bunch of NVIDIA exclusive features including SLI (we expect 2-way), CUDA, PhysX, and 3D Vision Surround. It expected to launch in mid-July, just in time for summer.

 

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=123752

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Watch this video, this guy said it right.

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