Nvidia 9800GX2 clocks revealed
Benchmarketing numbers
WE JUST GOT hard measured numbers on the Nvidia 9800GX2. There has been a lot of speculation on clocks and speeds, so here is what the one we have access to did.
The stock speeds will be 600/1000/1500MHz for core, memory and pixel shaders, but they OC a bit beyond that. With the broken OS, 64-bit edition, and an Intel quad, they score 14,4xx in 3DMark06 at default settings.
You can crank up the core frequency, but at least on the ones we have access too, memory goes all of a pittance higher, and shaders don't budge at all. If you push it as hard as you can go, you can just break 16K on 3DMark06.
With RS770/R780 on the near horizon, I would feel mighty twitchy right now if I was NV. µ
Comments
2x 8800GTS = 1 8800 GTX??
Say what? That's a crippling benchmrk result. If you look at the clock speeds for the happy go lucky 8800GTS (650/920/1625), you'd expect that a double-beasty like the 9800GX2 would easily take away the benchmark crown from ATI's X2 (which scores around 17-18k in Nerdmark 06), even if the the double-whopper is clocked roughly 10% slower.My rig also sports 64-bit Vista and a quad-core cpu feeding the ageing 8800GTX and I get 14,xxx+ in 3DMark 06. Heavily overclocked, for sure. But the card is almost 18 months old! If this holds true, I'd be very disappointed! Washed away are my dreams of 790i and this baby....
Rubbish
My 3870XT does 14000 under Vx64 on a Q6600. Back to the drawing board NV.blah
At this rate..i'd be amazed if crysis was maxed out with a "single card" solution at 60 fps before 2011,at the earliest..Nvidia should EXPAND Product Lines.
Its another Great, Updated Dx10.1 product? Scores are tight, yet why waste time making same capability as last years TOP Dog? When CPU, Mainboards & Host of other processor needs can be addresssed or upgraded. E.G. HDMI Audio Card or even SSD, or mobile phone/laptop?TYC-Take your choice.Grab their Gold & Run with it. Heck, Maybe Nvidia should make own Wafer Fab. It just seems lot of effort goes nowhere when awaiting next major improvements to Surf.
thomas drashek
Who cares about 3DMark?
Don't tell me that you guys are seriously buying products by their 3DMark scores? That thing will surely be faster in games than ATI's stuff as one G92 is much faster than ATI's offering.So could we stop this FUDMark nonsense?
Nothing to worry about
You guys really don't know what to say...lolIf I was ATI instead I would be really worried if these chips performs the same as the RD600 or the Fudo... At the time everybody was just trashing NVidia, but in the end as usual NVidia was the winner. ATI is nothing since it released the 9800 a loooooooong time ago.
NVidia rules.
MeTitus
Come on people..
This is the Inq AND Charlie is reporting this. So i'd bet none of this is accurate. There's no way this card would score that when it's basically two 8800GTS'.Drivers
I bet we will be looking at 17k with optimized drivers.Optimized?
Optimized drivers? Hmmm....Nvidia is actually able to optimize the drivers on a dual GPU card? Do I see pigs flying?3DMark06 IS Important
3DMark06 is an important benchmarking tool when you read the SM 2.0/3.0 scores. Also it tells you how a video card performs without it being based on TWIMTBP.It's no surprise that those on the nvidia camp hate it. <lol>
RE: Optimized?
Well, at least nVIDIA has the driver working, despite some major optimization issues... unlike ATI which cannot even get the good god dammed Craptastic Control Center's "Enable CrossFire" button working.Every single ATI driver past 7.10 has crashed on me whenever I click on "Enable CrossFire" (running two 2900XT's, was).
I've since grown tired of ATI's crap and got my self a 8800GTS512... ATI seems to have a long history of rubbish drivers too. I still remember the whole 9700 cockup when they rushed to have the worlds first AGP 8X graphics card out in the market.
bad test
It's being bottlenecked by the cpu, that why the increase in core and memory clocks show little improvement in nerdmark. Give it a quad at 4Ghz and then see what it can do?Bottlenecked?
This monstrosity is not bottlenecked by the CPU...it's bottlenecked by the flames coming off the GPU.Remember?
Remember the amazing 3dmark scores on the 2900 XT yet an 8800 GTX still blew it away in games? Don't put your money on 3dmark folks.Yeah right.
Charlie Demerjian is wrong quite often... That's why he wears bunny suits.Charlie: please stop injecting your bias, it's getting old and predictable.
Benchmarks, etc
All you people commenting on the benchmarks that have been leaked, are well, how can I put this, idiots.. It's obvious 3dmark06 is only seeing one (1) gpu and thus your seeing basicly the same score 1 8800gts g92 would produce.. nVidia has not released any official drivers for this card, so the scores I'm seeing make total sense. Every manufacture as well as every major review site has a NDA signed with nvidia, and the only sites releasing info are ones who don't have a nda and are using rumors to just get attention to this card. I don't expect anything 'magical' from the 9800gx2 but the scores will reflect basicly what 2 8800gts g92 cards do in SLI.. Hopefully, unless the card or design is flawed.. As for heat, u can passively cool a single card, using a efficient heatsink and a good fan it should be no problem cooling the card.. It's not like they havn't done this before, I'm sure they learned alot from the 7950gx2 and that card is yes slower, but each gpu runs hotter then the current g92's .. As for heat, there is much better cooler tech on video cards now then ever before, I doubt it will be an issue. and as for benchmarks, its stupid to assume anything unless you see some real reviews with a real driver..Last tidbit - you can see more and more leaked pictures of cards from manufactures, evga, msi, albatron.. if stinkin albatron has a card ready to go, you know all the manufactures have had these for awhile and have warehouses ready to ship.. They know they have a solid product, thats why things have been so tight lipped. Also evga even has showed pictures of their 'black pearl' version, and im sure they have superclocked and other versions all ready to ship as well.. When the nda ends, every review site that has a nda will release benchmarks and a review on the card (they all each have them). Then I imagine newegg will have them in stock that day or within a week.
psh
It's pretty bad if they're gettign 16* when they've been getting 16k and even 17k on skull trail, i mean, if nVidia wants good publicity and not a complete biased review like this may very well be, you'd think they'd prerelease drivers if they prereleased the video card dont you think? what company gives our they're video card and THEN doesnt give them the right drivers to run it even when they KNOW its inevitable that they'll benchmark it???optomize drivers,lol
NV can't even fix the driver stuck in inf loop problemhere are some real benchmarks
With a resolution of 1920x1200, the GeForce 9800 GX2 is 65% faster in Crysis and 47% faster in Call of Duty 4, but at the same time was only 12.5% faster in BioShock and 28% faster in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl, when compared to the Radeon HD 3870 X2. I would not call that a poor performer, the 9800 GX2 also beat the 3870 X2 in quad crossfire by just under 20 fps in 1280 x 1024.This was the test system:
Processor
Intel Core 2 Quad QX9650
Motherboard
Gigabyte X38-DQ6
Memory
4GB OCZ Reaper PC2-6400
Hard Drive
Western Digital SATA 250Gb
Cooling
Corsair Nautilus 500
Power Supply
Corsair HX620W
Operating System
Windows Vista Ultimate
and of course a 9800 GX2
3DMark is overrated, what does it matter if a card scores lower on a 3DMark benchmark but schools the other cards at gaming? shouldnt we care about how the cards run on the actual applications we use them for? be smart, look at the gaming benchmarks, not 3DMark benchmarks when looking for a card.