Nvidia Corp., the world’s largest designer of discrete graphics
processing units (GPUs), reportedly plans to update its lineup of
expensive graphics cards with at least two new offerings later in the
quarter. The most powerful of the novelties will carry two graphics
chips, whereas another will feature single-chip designs.
The new
top-of-the-range graphics card by Nvidia is called GeForce 9800 GX2
which is based on two yet unknown 65nm graphics chips with 128 unified
shader processors inside. The board, according to [H]ard|OCP
web-site, will be 30% faster compared to Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra and
will enable 4-way multi-GPU configurations. The novelty will have 256
stream processors in total, but will rely on driver support to
demonstrate its potential, just like any multi-GPU solutions.
