{"id":81692,"date":"2015-09-28T04:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T02:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=81692"},"modified":"2015-09-28T04:02:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T02:02:30","slug":"nvidia-working-on-top-secret-dual-gpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/81692-nvidia-working-on-top-secret-dual-gpu","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA working on top-secret dual-GPU"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s no secret that AMD is looking to take the GPU crown with their upcoming dual-GPU, the R9 Fury X2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the raw compute power of two R9 Fury’s and given how well AMD’s latest GPUs scale<\/a>, even NVIDIA’s mighty GTX Titan X can’t compete with the R9 Fury X2 \u2013 it’s not even close.<\/p>\n

But if AMD thought NVIDIA was going to just lie down and let them take top spot, then AMD had better think again.<\/p>\n

\"NVIDIA<\/a><\/p>\n

Deep in their Skunk Works, NVIDIA has secretly been tinkering away with their GM200<\/a> GPU, the chip that powers their enthusiast-grade GTX Titan X<\/a> and GTX 980 Ti<\/a>, and come to the conclusion that the best way to make a more powerful graphics card is to slap two of these bad boys together.<\/p>\n

That’s what a select number of press were told at a discrete press event in New York at any rate.<\/p>\n

Imagine, a single graphics card with the equivalent performance of two GTX Titan Xs. Heck, even two GTX 980 Ti’s, which are very nearly as fast as NVIDIA’s top-end monster, will do the trick.<\/p>\n

Their scaling isn’t quite as linear as AMD’s GPUs, but they’re noticeably faster. And imagine what could be if NVIDIA has been tweaking the scaling performance of the GM200.<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Graphics Card<\/span><\/th>\nGPU<\/span><\/th>\nCUDA Cores<\/span><\/th>\nCore \/ Boost Clock<\/span><\/th>\nTDP<\/span><\/th>\nMemory<\/span><\/th>\nMemory Bandwidth<\/span><\/th>\nPrice<\/span><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
TBC<\/strong><\/td>\nGM200 x 2<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\nTBC<\/td>\nA lot<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GTX Titan X<\/strong><\/td>\nGM200<\/td>\n3072\/192\/96<\/td>\n1000\/1089 MHz<\/td>\n250W<\/td>\n12 GB<\/td>\n336 GB\/s<\/td>\n$999<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GTX 980 Ti<\/strong><\/td>\nGM200<\/td>\n2816\/176\/96<\/td>\n1000\/1076 MHz<\/td>\n250W<\/td>\n6 GB<\/td>\n336 GB\/s<\/td>\n$649<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GTX 980<\/strong><\/td>\nGM204<\/td>\n2048\/128\/64<\/td>\n1127\/1216 MHz<\/td>\n165W<\/td>\n4 GB<\/td>\n224 GB\/s<\/td>\n$499<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GTX 970<\/strong><\/td>\nGM204<\/td>\n1664\/104\/56<\/td>\n1051\/1178 MHz<\/td>\n145W<\/td>\n3.5GB + 0.5GB<\/td>\n192 GB\/s<\/td>\n$329<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GTX 960<\/strong><\/td>\nGM206<\/td>\n1024\/64\/32<\/td>\n1127\/1178 MHz<\/td>\n120W<\/td>\n2 GB<\/td>\n112 GB\/s<\/td>\n$199<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GTX 950<\/strong><\/td>\nGM206<\/td>\n768\/48\/32<\/td>\n1024\/1188 MHz<\/td>\n90W<\/td>\n2 GB<\/td>\n106 GB\/s<\/td>\n$159<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

*Table courtesy of WCCF Tech<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Apparently, the press lucky enough to be told about NVIDIA’s new card were even granted samples, so we expect the card to drop soon \u2013 leaked benchmarks will probably drop even sooner.<\/p>\n

Let’s just hope that, whatever this card is called, offers a worthwhile fight for AMD \u2013 competition makes everything better.<\/p>\n

More to the point, we’re hoping NVIDIA hasn’t made the same mistake as they did with the GTX Titan Z, the last dual-GPU they released.<\/p>\n

Big and beastly as it may have been, it wasn’t actually the fastest card on the block, those honours go to the Radeon R9 295X2, and it was nearly twice the price.<\/p>\n

In fact, even after a number of price cuts, you’d be lucky to find a Titan Z for under R30, 000<\/strong> \u2013 no, we’re not joking.<\/p>\n

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In other GPU news<\/strong><\/h3>\n

AMD readying world\u2019s most powerful GPU for release: the R9 Fury X2<\/a><\/p>\n

The GTX 980 Ti Sea Hawk: an MSI and Corsair collaboration<\/a><\/p>\n

NVIDIA expects virtual reality to be an expensive experience<\/a><\/p>\n

AMD\u2019s Radeon R9 Nano: half the size of the GTX 980, just as fast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As if NVIDIA was going to let AMD take the crown of fastest GPU without a fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":81694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2420,15938,47,6292,2482,1085,15936,1969,45,15177],"class_list":["post-81692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-geforce","tag-gm200","tag-gpu","tag-graphics-card","tag-gtx","tag-hardware-2","tag-maxwell-2-0","tag-news-2","tag-nvidia","tag-r9-fury-x2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}