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XFX GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB XXX Edition Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Thursday, 08 June 2006 |
TweakTown shares a review on the XFX GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB XXX Edition video card. As we roll into June like every year it is very exciting. Why? It is Computex time again and I find myself not all that phased because we get to play with something hands on that is a bit more exiting then a plane trip. Only a couple days ago at Computex, NVIDIA launched the GeForce 7950 GX2. We all know about it, we even knew about them before the GeForce 7900 GX2 was available but just how good is NVDIA's second attempt at SLI on a single card going to be? While anyone will be able to go out and buy two GeForce 7950 GX2 cards which will result in a total of four GPU cores, will you be able to run them in Quad SLI?
 XFX GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB XXX Edition Review
Like the top of the range XFX cards we have the big box with one mean looking character on the front. We can clearly see that we have a GeForce 7950 GX2 along with the fact that it is a XXX version clocked at a menacing 570MHz over the default NVIDIA reference design speed of 500MHz. We also for the first time see a nice big bold 1GB DDR message printed on the front of the box which is made possible by the two cards combining 512MB GDDR3 memory together. In Quad SLI, this would offer us 2GB of GDDR3 memory. The memory has been bumped up to a massive 1550MHz DDR.
After a week of so much pain and so little sleep, you think that you would be left with a bad taste in your mouth but we're left quite pleased with the latest graphics card offering from NVIDIA and XFX. Games are only getting more intensive as well so there is no doubt that Quad SLI is going to be useful but we have to ask ourselves something. Are games going to make use of this card and technology before the next batch of ATI and nVidia cards come out? Time will only tell. Exactly what we want to see now is a driver for Quad SLI and more games to make use of the AGEIA PhysX games.
XFX have done a fantastic job with this card and it is clear that the performance increase it offers over the Leadtek is quite good. It also makes the GeForce 7950 GX2 a better option over an SLI combination especially considering you have a wider range of other non-SLI motherboards to choose from when looking for a compatible product for your new graphics card. The real question is what to buy and that is simple, what monitor do you have and which resolution does it support? If you have a 30" LCD monitor than Quad SLI is within your reach.
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