XFX 7950GX2 570M XXX Edition Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews

Iria · Jun 5, 2006, 11:56 AM

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In March of this year NVIDIA announced the 7900 series update to their very successful 7800 lineup. By adopting the new 90nm manufacturing process they retained the same architecture of the class leading 7800’s but were able to reduce power requirements, significantly increase clock speeds, and lower the heat output of the cards. In our review of the 7900 GTX we noted that while it had great performance, it wasn’t the king of the hill. By accounts of many enthusiasts the ATI X1900XTX is the leader in single card solutions.

Now, with the launch of the 7950GX2 NVIDIA takes the next step in video card evolution, the multi-GPU “single” card. While technically it is two boards screwed together, it is a single card solution in that it only requires a single PCI-E slot. By leveraging the power of SLI on a single card this promises to be the absolute fastest single card solution today. The benefits of this are packaging, price, and performance. There are also other benefits which we will get to shortly.

Drakon · Jun 5, 2006, 12:51 PM

These cards surely came out of the blue. Hadn't heard anything about them since today.

IamLakota · Jun 5, 2006, 07:22 PM

Now this might be the card that makes me update to a new system!!

kingsownall · Jun 5, 2006, 07:35 PM

still cant beat the 1900xtx... and its a dual single video card solution. wonder how ati dish out to counter that. if they ever do

Erroneus · Jun 6, 2006, 02:28 AM

I dont know about that kingsownall. The 7950GX2 are being priced at around 599$ and a x1900xtx is at about 485$ And considering prices on it for sure will drop some weeks after it's been on the market, 1900xtx has to drop in price to be competive, about 175-200$ cheaper sounds right to me.

I dont think ATI is gonna make a similar solution, but work on the updated r580 0.08 micron version.

kingsownall · Jun 6, 2006, 09:07 AM

true true

bstef9950 · Jun 6, 2006, 09:22 AM

I could of sworn that i saw a price of close to $800 each for the new quad card setup Nvidia is working on with Dell's 1st quad Video card systym.Has anyone else heard about this???

bug77 · Jun 6, 2006, 09:25 AM

Can someone spell 'waste of money'?

BWX · Jun 7, 2006, 02:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingsownall

still cant beat the 1900xtx...

Yes it does... it beats it by about double the performance.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jun 7, 2006, 03:02 AM

I loathe how they omit results that might of made the nw NV Card not shine as much
IE "3D Mark 2006" an many of the games they didn't list crossfire X1900, yet in the
page before (FEAR) they've posted x1900 crossfire results. Of course makeing the NV card look like it jumps out unrealistically.... So I'd ask where is the X1900XTX crossfire results? the ones they curiously "omited"....

EDIT

OMG!!!! that totally reminds me yet again of this
http://www.dvhardware.net/print.php?sid=2076
very simular in idea/looks, two cards pre sandwiched

~~Alien1~~ · Jun 7, 2006, 03:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kingsownall

still cant beat the 1900xtx...

Wrong
Of course its a faster sollution from the X1900xtx
It's a MultiGPU sollution after all

The problem is that as a price\performance sollution is a waste money and especially with the new G80 (aka Geforce 8 series probably) and R600 going to be introduced in 1 or 2 months

BWX · Jun 7, 2006, 03:41 AM

http://www.hothardware.com/viewartic...?articleid=826

Just read that Neon.. it has all the cards listed and crossfire in the results...

BWX · Jun 7, 2006, 03:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alien1

The problem is that as a price\performance sollution is a waste money and especially with the new G80 and R600 going to be introduced in 1 or 2 months

You can use that argument for any top of the line video card though.. There will always be a faster one soon. it is about the fastest single slot card on the planet, of course it is going to be expensive.

These are facts though.. hard to argue with that..

Quote:

[COLOR=Red]Just 3 months ago this level of SLI performance would have cost you at least $1300, which is what a pair of 7800GTX 512 were priced at. Today you can have even better performance than that for less than the price of a single 7800GTX 512...truly impressive! What's more is that you no longer need an SLI motherboard to get the full performance of two video cards. NVIDIA has raised the bar in this area and we'll have to see if ATI can match them.

In today's world the only two solutions faster are the X1900 CrossFire and NVIDIA's own 7900 GTX SLI, both of which will cost you at least $900 without a CrossFire/SLI capable motherboard. The 7950GX2 gives you nearly the same performance for hundreds less and gives you an upgrade path which neither of those two can ever offer[/COLOR]

The review has a lot of inconsistancies... they list some cards in one result, others in the next.. I bet other people, with the same exact setup would see different results. Some of the results don't make much sense. I wonder if the card was messed up or something.

Jun 5, 2006, 11:56 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 74	XFX 7950GX2 570M XXX Edition Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews Review: Legit Reviews ___________ In March of this year NVIDIA announced the 7900 series update to their very successful 7800 lineup. By adopting the new 90nm manufacturing process they retained the same architecture of the class leading 7800’s but were able to reduce power requirements, significantly increase clock speeds, and lower the heat output of the cards. In our review of the 7900 GTX we noted that while it had great performance, it wasn’t the king of the hill. By accounts of many enthusiasts the ATI X1900XTX is the leader in single card solutions. Now, with the launch of the 7950GX2 NVIDIA takes the next step in video card evolution, the multi-GPU “single” card. While technically it is two boards screwed together, it is a single card solution in that it only requires a single PCI-E slot. By leveraging the power of SLI on a single card this promises to be the absolute fastest single card solution today. The benefits of this are packaging, price, and performance. There are also other benefits which we will get to shortly.

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kingsownall DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 50 Rep Power: 0	still cant beat the 1900xtx... and its a dual single video card solution. wonder how ati dish out to counter that. if they ever do __________________ [color=Lime][color=Red]ComSpecs asus p4rvm 2.8GHZ Northwood corsair value select pc-3200 [/color][color=Red]Ati Radeon X850pro(540,610 on zalman fata1lty)[/color] [/color]

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Erroneus Loving my Windows 7 Ent. Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 12,921 Rep Power: 77 System Specs	I dont know about that kingsownall. The 7950GX2 are being priced at around 599$ and a x1900xtx is at about 485$ And considering prices on it for sure will drop some weeks after it's been on the market, 1900xtx has to drop in price to be competive, about 175-200$ cheaper sounds right to me. I dont think ATI is gonna make a similar solution, but work on the updated r580 0.08 micron version. __________________

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Drakon DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Floatin'... Posts: 4,958 Rep Power: 43	These cards surely came out of the blue. Hadn't heard anything about them since today.

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bug77 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: around Posts: 792 Rep Power: 0	Can someone spell 'waste of money'?

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The_Neon_Cowboy DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,135 Rep Power: 77 System Specs	I loathe how they omit results that might of made the nw NV Card not shine as much IE "3D Mark 2006" an many of the games they didn't list crossfire X1900, yet in the page before (FEAR) they've posted x1900 crossfire results. Of course makeing the NV card look like it jumps out unrealistically.... So I'd ask where is the X1900XTX crossfire results? the ones they curiously "omited".... EDIT OMG!!!! that totally reminds me yet again of this http://www.dvhardware.net/print.php?sid=2076 very simular in idea/looks, two cards pre sandwiched __________________ Last edited by The_Neon_Cowboy; Jun 7, 2006 at 03:14 AM.

Jun 7, 2006, 03:41 AM	#12
BWX Spinal Tapped Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,566 Rep Power: 90 System Specs	http://www.hothardware.com/viewartic...?articleid=826 Just read that Neon.. it has all the cards listed and crossfire in the results... __________________ One Big Ass Mistake America