Nvidia prepares “D8E” – the 7950 GX2’s successor
Nvidia's 7950 GX2 was a piece of art in its day. Aside from insane power consumption, and relatively low quad-SLi performance, the design itself was unique and appealing. Today, according to Fudzilla, it will be superseded by a new version featuring the G92 core. Nicknamed "D8E", the board will adopt many of the characteristics of its predecessor; two PCB's, with two power connectors...
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AMD inaudibly release HD 2900 GT: first benchmarks appear
It's true, we all forgot that Nvidia does in fact have an opposition - although they may not be much competition at the present time - they are indeed still releasing boards. The last of the R600-based boards adopts the familiar GT suffix. The Radeon HD 2900 GT features 240 stream processors, operates at 600/800MHz, and includes 256MB of GDDR3 memory on a 256-bit memory bus. In comparison to the 2900 Pro, which shares the same clocks, the board's 240 stream processors and memory bus are a real bottleneck.
