Conclusion

Nvidia have pulled off a remarkable achievement with the 7950 GX2, the first impressive aspect of the product is the actual size of the card. When compared to the existing high end cards from Nvidia and ATI the GX2 takes up no more room and will happily fit in any system designed for those products. Additionally, despite having 2 GPU's two sets of memory and two PCB's the card only requires one power connector which again makes it competitive with existing single card solutions.

As far as image quality is concerned we are pleased to report that the GX2 provides identical (at least to the naked eye) image quality at standard settings to the 7900 GTX. This can of course be improved upon by enabling various levels of SLI Anti Aliasing which are not available to the GTX.

We are also happy to report that other than the long standing Tomb Raider Legend bug the drivers provided for this review, despite being betas, perform very well and with any luck performance will improve further on the 7950 with the final release driver.

The performance of the GX2 when compared to single card solutions such as the 7900 GTX or X1900XT is very good, in fact in almost all situations the GX2 is a reasonably large margin ahead of the two other products. The impressiveness of the results change slightly when comparing the GX2 to 7900 GTX's or X1900XT's in Crossfire. Both of those solutions provide far superior framerates across the board, however the GX2 is a much cheaper solution.

In summary, the Nvidia Geforce 7950 GX2 is the fastest graphics product available which works on a single PCIe slot and is a very attractive purchase at its current sub £400 price point.