Zotac GTX460 X2: dual gf104

**Gilgamesh** · 10-25-2010, 11:30 PM

PC-Partner working on this

http://www.expreview.com/12471.html

**Zloyd** · 10-25-2010, 11:37 PM

Nice !!! Quado sli !!!

**zanzabar** · 10-25-2010, 11:43 PM

best dual gpu NV card ever, i think so, also sli connector so quad gpu g104

**slaveondope** · 10-25-2010, 11:51 PM

I lol'd when I saw the extension of the pcb for the pwm but it actually looks cool and saves length.
Quad SLI would be awesome but how about drivers, would they even support it?
Seems NV would have to make driver capable for it right?

**zalbard** · 10-26-2010, 12:04 AM

Quite a nice card. Wish they used GTX465s, though. It all depends on the pricing.

**zanzabar** · 10-26-2010, 12:10 AM

Originally Posted by zalbard

Quite a nice card. Wish they used GTX465s, though. It all depends on the pricing.

u wanted them to use the slower butchered gf100 part thats higher wattage?, or the full gf104 part

**zalbard** · 10-26-2010, 12:16 AM

Originally Posted by zanzabar

u wanted them to use the slower butchered gf100 part thats higher wattage?, or the full gf104 part

I meant the latter. Sorry about the confusion.

**Metroid** · 10-26-2010, 12:22 AM

Working?

It's already done.

**CedricFP** · 10-26-2010, 12:25 AM

Wow that's nuts. Wonder what kind of stock cooling it'll have and how much the GPUs will be downclocked by. Looks very interesting.

**zalbard** · 10-26-2010, 12:27 AM

Originally Posted by CedricFP

Wow that's nuts. Wonder what kind of stock cooling it'll have and how much the GPUs will be downclocked by. Looks very interesting.

Shouldn't be much hotter than GTX295, imo.

**Mungri** · 10-26-2010, 12:33 AM

Originally Posted by zalbard

Shouldn't be much hotter than GTX295, imo.

Should be cooler IMO. The GTX 460 is a very cool chip.

Regardless of consuming more power, it remains cooler under full load than a 5870 does.

I would rather see the full 384 shader G104 now, the 336 shader part is old and not any better than AMD's new 6800 range.

**Gilgamesh** · 10-26-2010, 12:37 AM

gf104 draw less power of g200b, so I don't see great problems of cooling with a beefy cooler like GTX480 AMP:

**highoctane** · 10-26-2010, 12:41 AM

Well its not like it should take too much effort for them to make use of the full shader gpus if/when they are available.

**highoctane** · 10-26-2010, 12:48 AM

Originally Posted by CedricFP

Wow that's nuts. Wonder what kind of stock cooling it'll have and how much the GPUs will be downclocked by. Looks very interesting.

Translated from the article:

The frequency of the current specifications of this card has not been finalized, but the idea is not lower than the initial Sautter public version of GTX 460 frequency.

http://translate.google.com/translat...m%2F12471.html

**kaktus1907** · 10-26-2010, 01:35 AM

gpus are still coded GF104-325-A1.. no difference than ordinary chips.. maybe full blown gf 104 has something like 375-A1/A2 ?..

**Pantsu** · 10-26-2010, 01:50 AM

It will join with the rest of the unreleased dual gpu fermis, the Galaxy GTX 470 X2 and Asus Mars 2. I don't see much point in this if GTX 580 will be released this year.

**Origin_Unknown** · 10-26-2010, 01:58 AM

will the bridge chip make it look like a single card to the OS?

**saaya** · 10-26-2010, 02:35 AM

just as useless as dual gtx480 cards imo...
there are boards to run 4 cards, you dont need a hack anymore to have 4x1 sli... so whats the point?
whoever wants 4 vgas can afford to spend a few extra bugs on a quad sli board, and if a card dies, which is likely at some point, one card dies, and not two

**Mungri** · 10-26-2010, 02:43 AM

Originally Posted by saaya

just as useless as dual gtx480 cards imo...
there are boards to run 4 cards, you dont need a hack anymore to have 4x1 sli... so whats the point?
whoever wants 4 vgas can afford to spend a few extra bugs on a quad sli board, and if a card dies, which is likely at some point, one card dies, and not two

So theres no point to 5970s as well then?

More than two GPUs is silly IMO as the scaling reduces significantly in most scenarios, but dual GPU cards are handy to have if you want to free up slots for other stuff.

**Sam_oslo** · 10-26-2010, 03:38 AM

Originally Posted by saaya

just as useless as dual gtx480 cards imo...
there are boards to run 4 cards, you dont need a hack anymore to have 4x1 sli... so whats the point?
whoever wants 4 vgas can afford to spend a few extra bugs on a quad sli board, and if a card dies, which is likely at some point, one card dies, and not two

Are you dismissing the whole concept of dual-GPUs, or just dismissing this one?
Dual-GPUs has their own advantages/disadvantages. You have only mentioned disadvantages, but it takes less place and allows better air-flow, and comes cheaper than 2 x single GPUs too. The biggest advantage comes for GPU-folding and HPC GPU-farms, then you can have many more due to limited number of PCI-slots. So it's not a total waste, it's a matter of what you need.

This Dual-GPU is as good/bad as any other dual-GPU. My only particular concern about is the quad-driver, it may face some challenges since it's just a partner tweak. But it remains to be seen how they fix the quad-driver.

**hurrdurr** · 10-26-2010, 04:13 AM

Without downclocking, this would be faster than a GTX 480, slower than a HD5970 and cost around $380-400. Not too bad right now, but if Cayman's performance rumors are true it has no place anywhere.

**fantomx** · 10-26-2010, 04:19 AM

Probably fake, i can't understand why would anybody put 4 DVi's on card?

**[XC] gomeler** · 10-26-2010, 04:27 AM

I'm tired of being lured in and then having my hopes crushed by these dual GPU cards. I'll believe it when I can buy/barter for it.

**SKYMTL** · 10-26-2010, 04:49 AM

Another marketing stunt that will never be broadly available? Methinks so.

**Nugz** · 10-26-2010, 05:22 AM

Originally Posted by fantomx

Probably fake, i can't understand why would anybody put 4 DVi's on card?

4 DVI's and 2 GPU's in one card for nVidia surround.

I'd buy it just so I don't have to use 2 cards for my 2D surround.

It's accually a must have for nVidia to compete with AMD's Eyefinity, AMD only needs 1 card to run Eyefinity. So right now I'm looking at the 5770 just to get desktop 2D surround.

But this would rock

Peace, Nugz

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