HardOCP has managed to catch exclusive pictures of the upcoming 9800GX2 from Nvidia.
The other picture shows more clearly a black PCB, tough the SLi connector isn't clearly visible, it seems to be a slot for it, if you look carefully at this one.
The design is obviously reminiscent of the 7950GX2, with the following specs:
- 1GB Frame Buffer
- Two PCBs
- Two 65nm GPUs Total
- 256 Stream Processors Total (2xG92)
The card will use SLi to balance performance of the two GPU's and should carry two G92 carefully binned for low power consumption, almost certainly at a lower clock than the 650MHz that the 8800GTS carries.
Each of the GPUs will have 512MB at their disposal and Quad-SLI support seems certain, as much of the work was already done previously. One can wonder if they will come up with Hexa-SLi, the hardware infrastructure is there, but that would certainly bring some diminishing returns and power supply requirements would beat all previous records.
The cooling seems rather beefy for a retail card and will probably be replaced for another solution. Also no other video outputs besides the two DVI connectors, placed in such an unusual way, indicate that this should be only a prototype and not the actual form of the retail card.
Keywords: Nvidia 9800GX2 1GB 1024MB SLi G92
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