EVGA is one of the few partners that got the GeForce 9800 GX2 cards for launch. Sanjin already wrote a lot about what is under the hood but let me go into a few more details. The GeFforce 9800 GX2 has two G92 chips inside and both chips are working at 600MHz. Each chip addresses 512MB of GDDR3 memory, making the total amount of 1024MB memory. The card has two PCB's and it's caged in a black, very nice looking metal cage. The cooler with a fan is placed between two PCB's and the chips are covered by a quite huge copper chunk. Surprisingly, the chips do not really get that hot, while the case of the card tends to be quite hot after some hours of gaming. - FudZilla

EVGA e-GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB Version Card Review

The G92 is the first NVIDIA chip to have a decent video engine that can cope with both H.264 and VC-1. The bottom line is that the card can take it. EVGA's card also works at 600MHz core and 2000MHz memory, but naturally, it can be overclocked. We wanted to push it and see how much we could squeeze out of this little baby. Sanjin scored some 720MHz GPU clock and 2300MHz memory. We overclocked also the shaders from the reference 1500MHz up to 1780MHz speed. Now, these are some great scores. Due to time limitations we decided to test all scores on most intensive resolution that we can get.

This is quite a score. When you overclock you gain a lot of performance. About twenty percent overclock can get you a ten percent better score. Such an overclocked card can score massively better than both the Radeon HD 3870 X2 and GeForce 8800 Ultra. The GeForce 9800 GX2 will no doubt be the fastest card around and despite its €550 price tag it will be the fastest gaming device around. We can promise you some more scores shortly but let me first clear up a few things. EVGA and other reference GeForce 9800 GX2 are significantly faster than the GeForce 8800 Ultra graphics accelerator.

Despite its 65nm chips it can be overclocked by an impressive twenty percent and in games such as Crysis it will score over twenty percent faster than the GeForce 8800 Ultra as well. In Company of Heroes it will score more than fifty percent better than and this might justify the upgrade. If you have a GeForce 8800 GTX or similar card this is the one you want to replace it with. We believe that GeForce 9800 GX2 from EVGA and other vendors even at default 600MHz makes a great choice and the only thing fastest than this single card are two GX2 cards together.