The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

[saaya]

An interesting observation btw.
You've all seen the thread about ASUS MARS based on ATI, right? Which has a huge cooling system and can draw up to 450W of power.
Why are they releasing this? I am sure no one doubts that Fermi will not be considerably faster than 5970 (and in fact will probably be slower).
Since it's not just ASUS who is going to release similar monster cards, it makes me think that dual Fermi is coming, sooner or later. It will be just as hot, huge, power hungry and expensive.
That's what this card is supposed to compete with.

well there hanst been any talk about dual fermi for a while...
originally it was supposed to come out "very soon" after the fermi single gpu launch... but then again, nvidia said fermi is launching "very soon" and that was almost half a year ago
i really wonder if a dual fermi card makes sense...
if the power consumption of the single cards is really that high, then a dualgpu fermi card would have to be clocked pretty low, which would make it not that fast... only 20% faster than a 5970, if even that...
thats assuming a single 480 is slightly slower than a 5970...

if something is too pessimistic even for saaya... then there is a problem jk

hahha, thats so true man
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