Nvidia's claim to the throne
A WEEK after the official launch at CES, it's review time. World+dog of the hardware world joined hands in praise of the new single-core GPU king of the hill.
We've got them all lined-up for you, in no particular order at all:
Of course the Web didn't stand still while Nvidia took the headlines.
Driverheaven has some new coolers from Sunbeam and Northq, they aren't expensive, at all and deliver some serious cooling.
Bit Tech is looking at the Cooler Master Sniper, an enthusiast enclosure with a case of the hotties...
Another of Cooler Master's designs is being reviewed at TweakTown, this one is a V10 CPU cooler. It's a rather massive peltier cooler with two 120mm fans and 3 fin arrays...
Digital TV broadcasts are just around the corner, and Asus is gearing up. Benchmark Reviews tests the Asus My Cinema-U3100Mini, a USB dongle that takes over the air broadcasts as well as cable.
The Inq is one of those very few media outlets (wossat?) that gets a mobile phone named after it... Thrusting Reviews gives a go at the INQ1 mobile phone.
Tom's Hardware has some late-coming tests on a quad-SLI GTX 295 rig. Quite a conundrum between tri-SLIs and quads...
Swiftech's H20-220 Apex Ultima liquid cooling kit is on reviews at Madshrimps. Took care of that overclocked Core i7 without breaking a sweat... µ
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nobody includes GTA IV in their benches - not even charlie. This is the only title where performance really matters since all the other games run fast now. are they all just following recommendations or too lazy to think up their own titles to test?
@ Greig: I can tell you GTA4 runs great on the 295 as i have one, running it at 2560x1600 with all the settings maxed out. SLI scares well with this game.
The memory limit needs to be disabled though as the game wants about 1.6GB graphics RAM at these settings! But it still runs smooth... maybe because i have HHD paging disabled, so the games uses my DDR3 instead, which is obviously a lot faster.
My GTX 280 could manage it at 1920x1200 with nearly all the settings maxed out, apart from view and detail distance.
Single core GPUs are about as relevant as single core CPUs these days....
So this throne is more than likely a royal commode...
In actuality both sets of GPU's are "multi-core" in the sense of how they both use programmable "stream" processors. In truth the 4870X2 is and isn't technically multi-core (then again the 4870 is and isn't at the same time as well). You, and the article writer, are thinking uniprocessor vs multi-processor. The 4870 and GTX285 are both uniprocessor designs, i.e. a single processor chip providing the calculation engine. The 4870X2 and GTX295 are multi-processor designs where there are two (or more) physical chips providing calculations.
As far as being a royal commode? Pfft. The 4870X2 will generate more heat than a 4870, and likely the GTX285 as well. The power considerations are also likely the exact same situation.
Nice display of your ignorance though.
When do we see a socket 1366 solution for a Swiftech MCW6500-T thermoelectric peltier TEC CPU water-block? and how about some software manage the thing?