Gigabyte 3D1: is it a SLI alternative?

**MIG-31** · Dec 24, 2004, 06:02 PM

Gigabyte Technology unveiled its new 3D1 graphics card, which many call an answer to SLI architecture.

3D1 is designed for PCI Express bus and bases on two 500 MHz NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT GPUs. It also has 256 MB GDDR3 (1.6 ns, 600 MHz; 625 MHz max. potential clock rate), 256-bit bus (seems to be one of the first cards on NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT with such bus width).
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The_Neon_Cowboy · Dec 24, 2004, 07:09 PM

Why are they calling 128bitx2 256 bit? when each core has
acess to 128mb of 128bit memory

wow not bad that it only takes a nv card with 1000mhz total core and a total of 256mb of 1200mhz ram and a total of 16 pipes to beat a single ATI x850

impressive

glad giga-bye cought up wth what ati's and others been doing for years putting more then 1 gpu on one card. it's cheapr and faster then a SLI soultion...

**dj_stick** · Dec 24, 2004, 08:01 PM

remember neon, they've only put the midrange gpu cores on the card, and i don;t think driver support is totally finished yet either

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The_Neon_Cowboy HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,009 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	Why are they calling 128bitx2 256 bit? when each core has acess to 128mb of 128bit memory wow not bad that it only takes a nv card with 1000mhz total core and a total of 256mb of 1200mhz ram and a total of 16 pipes to beat a single ATI x850 impressive glad giga-bye cought up wth what ati's and others been doing for years putting more then 1 gpu on one card. it's cheapr and faster then a SLI soultion... __________________ Last edited by The_Neon_Cowboy; Dec 24, 2004 at 07:16 PM.