We can remember first "officially" seeing the GeForce 9800 GX2 back in January when another website featured a few high resolution images of it. It definitely didn't LOOK like any other graphics card on the market at the time, with its fully enclosed cooling design and oddly stacked DVI outputs. We got another "clue" when NVIDIA itself mentioned the 9800 GX2 in a press FAQ about the launch of AMD's Radeon HD 3870 X2 card.
Just like the HD 3870 X2, the new NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2 is a dual-GPU graphics board with only a single connection to the motherboard via PCI Express. The common way of describing these cards is "SLI on a card" or "CrossFire on a card" depending on your party affiliation. These descriptions are about as accurate as you can get in ten words or less, though as we'll see the NVIDIA 9800 GX2 is even more like "SLI on a card" than its AMD competition.
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Review: PC Perspective
Please Read DH's Review. XFX 9800 GX2 and 790i Ultra Sli.
Mar 18, 2008, 06:39 PM
