7950GX2 benchmarked

AS THE LAUNCH of 7950GX2 approaches, more and more info is being leaked out and the previews of first samples are turning in.

Dutch tweaker Viper_4111 posted some scores obtained using an unnamed 7950GX2 card. From the looks of it, the board is probably manufactured either by Flextronics or Foxconn. You can check the scores if you follow our complementary L'INQ, below, but we can disclose that the default 3DMark05 score was a bit below 7900GTX SLI, but only just.

It seems that the close integration of two boards and the fact that they're working as a single GPU - thanks to PCI X48 bridge chip - is resulting in a bigger performance increase over previous try, the problematic 7900GX2.

Best of all, the previewers used drivers downloaded straight from official nVIDIA enthusiast-oriented website, using ForceWare Rel90 drivers in their 91.27 revision. Of course, those drivers bring the new and improved Control Panel, which is a dire copy of Windows Control Panel. The old one, not the Vista-glassy one. µ

L'INQs
1st showing
Prereview on front page
ForceWare Rel91.27
Modified INF file (7950GX2 support)