dual chip Fermi using GF104

[josiahsuarez]

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/19052/1/
Nvidia prepares dual chip card
Written by Fuad Abazovic
Thursday, 03 June 2010 11:14

Based on new GF104


Our Far East sources are telling us that a dual-chip card from Nvidia is coming. It is based on GF104, Nvidia’s new chip. This is a successor of Fermi that should get lower TDPs and better performance per watt.

The dual-chip card is supposed to finally take over the performance crown from ATI, and this is something that Nvidia desperately wants and needs. It’s always good to win and have the fastest card on the market.

The new chip is called GF104 and it is the same one that should land in Geforce GTX 460 cards. It has a lower TDP than Fermi and it can hit higher clocks with the similar TDPs of Fermi. This should be the cash cow chip for Nvidia as it was referring to it as the new G92, 8800GT chip.

We are not aware of any new dual chip based card from ATI at this time, but they should be working on the next generation products, reportedly based on 40nm process.

On another note, Galaxy showed off a dual GTX 470 card at Computex. This is not the card we are talking about and it is highly unlikely that we will see dual GTX 470 cards in retail.

so when can we expect it!?

[Maverick123w]

If the performance is there I may be tempted to sell the 470 and get it.

[Intel17]

Meh. If I want performance, I'll just get a second 470.

[Noriega]

...they will sell dual 480 as a toaster later this year!

[JasonPC]

I really have to wonder what is the point of making a dual chip card if the latest rumored GF104 specs are true.

240 SP, not really too impressive x2 is still only 480, same as the GTX 480
Core clock 607 MHz, if GF104 is such an improved core why isn't this higher?

Heres where it gets ugly

192-bit bus and 768MB vram. That can't be good for high resolutions or AA. I'm failing to see where this will have a market.

I do hope they can pull something off. Having something that is a notch above a GTX 480 would be great for them to have, but I just don't see them attaining that if those specs are true.

[ragejg]

I'd tend to think now that a lot more people would be on board with this now, knowing how potent GF104 can be.

[josiahsuarez]

ah with all the talk of GTX460 I had almost forgot about this. it should be noted that GTX460 has one 'SM' disabled leading to 336 'CUDA' cores. the full chip actually has 384 cores, meaning an X2 style card would have 768 cores (assuming they put the full chips in there)

[josiahsuarez]

speak of the devil:

http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/graphics/new-high-end-card-has-two-gf104-chips
Comes later this year

We got some confirmation that GTX 480 will get a successor, and this new card will be made out of two GF104 chips.

The card will have two GTX 460 chips so to speak and with the right clocks it could be faster. It is too early to know the exact specification but as a hint what to expect, the full GF104 chip has eight clusters with 48 shaders each, and the card with total 384x2 is possible. This is of course if Nvidia manages to enable all shaders and clock the chip to some decent clocks, say 700+ MHz.

The dual card can end up with up to 768 shaders, but we are quite sure that the final number will be lower than that. As for the memory, GDDR5 is of course the first choice and the clocks speeds around 4000MHz should be possible.

The only thing we can confirm is that the new high end “GX2 Fermi successor” dual card has two GF104 chips and that the performance wise it should be the fastest thing on market, at least it should end up faster than Radeon HD 5970 X2 card, but then again, ATI is not sitting around with its legs crossed.

[MUYA]

speak of the devil:

http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/graphics/new-high-end-card-has-two-gf104-chips

That article from Fud sure does cover a lot of bases...or not.
I want a one card solution to totally biatch smack my GTX 295 in games I am currently playing!!! like 100% or more! :p Not demanding much here you know! :D

[Madpistol]

speak of the devil:

http://www.fudzilla.com/graphics/graphics/new-high-end-card-has-two-gf104-chips

FUD could have pulled that one out of their asses easily.

Everyone knows that SLI GTX 460's are faster and cheaper than a single GTX 480. Of course if nvidia had any sense in them, they'd make a dual GF104 based card and jack up the price... :headexplode:

[Vorgus]

When they start shipping chips that arn't crippled to make them work, then it'll be time to see what is offered

[Viral]

I have a feeling the GTX 460 only has shader cores disabled so that it doesn't outperform the GTX 465. Could be wrong though. For a dual chip card I'd hope they'd enable all the cores.