• GeForce GTX 460 2Win becomes NVIDIA's first dual-Fermi graphics card
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[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;28545551]That PCB is hideous.[/QUOTE] Have to agree, it looks horrendous.
[QUOTE=reapaninja;28545416][url]http://www.techpowerup.com/141980/Galaxy-Designs-its-Own-Dual-GeForce-GTX-460-Graphics-Card.html[/url] [media]http://www.techpowerup.com/img/11-03-11/74a.jpg[/media] [media]http://www.techpowerup.com/img/11-03-11/74b.jpg[/media][/QUOTE] I'd love a white and orange GPU, but that's just me
[QUOTE=raceingdemon;28547127]Why is it so tall?[/QUOTE] room to fit shit on I guess gives them more space for the cooling too [editline]11th March 2011[/editline] it's a bit pointless saying the PCB is ugly, it's galaxy so it's not like anyone was going to buy it for aesthetics anyway
[QUOTE=Makol;28544956][img_thumb]http://gyazo.com/f63a04f6536c2904e6f99fa40f9b8f53.png[/img_thumb] Seems to have support for SLI.[/QUOTE] Which means you can bridge two of these, not four. [quote][b]Currently[/b] support.[/quote]
What a dumb as fuck name. Good looking card I guess, but it looks like it caught the AMD-bug.
Should have called it the GTX920. That would catch more attention.
3 fans? Awesome.
[QUOTE=Odellus;28548412]What a dumb as fuck name. Good looking card I guess, but it looks like it caught the AMD-bug.[/QUOTE] AMD-bug is what exactly?
3d vision surround out of the box with only a gigabyte of video ram lol'd
[QUOTE=Dark-Energy;28557086]AMD-bug is what exactly?[/QUOTE] I think extremely long cards....
[QUOTE=axon;28559501]3d vision surround out of the box with only a gigabyte of video ram lol'd[/QUOTE] 2gb, learn to read.
I wonder if this or the upcoming 590 will be faster.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;28567873]I wonder if this or the upcoming 590 will be faster.[/QUOTE] Are you being serious?
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;28567873]I wonder if this or the upcoming 590 will be faster.[/QUOTE] the 590 by far
[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;28567492]2gb, learn to read.[/QUOTE] Only 1 GB will be usable
Just me, or is the whole "2WIN" really not necessary? I know they're marketing it to Black Ops players who see this; [img]http://gyazo.com/ad0a561f29a094e6d807e66cdd41c474.png[/img] and think "oh god, I need atleast 300 FPS 2WIN!" but it's just tacky in my opinion, silly 1337 marketing ploys..
[QUOTE=David Tennant;28574886]Just me, or is the whole "2WIN" really not necessary? I know they're marketing it to Black Ops players who see this; [img_thumb]http://gyazo.com/ad0a561f29a094e6d807e66cdd41c474.png[/img_thumb] and think "oh god, I need atleast 300 FPS 2WIN!" but it's just tacky in my opinion, silly 1337 marketing ploys..[/QUOTE] 2 = Bi win somehow = winning the evga gtx460 2win is bi-winning! and lol @ 3d out of box only 1gb of ram lol
[QUOTE=axon;28575052]2 = Bi win somehow = winning the evga gtx460 2win is bi-winning! and lol @ 3d out of box only 1gb of ram lol[/QUOTE] Is it actually referencing Charlie Sheen? If so that's great and I dismiss my last comment.
[QUOTE=David Tennant;28575205]Is it actually referencing Charlie Sheen? If so that's great and I dismiss my last comment.[/QUOTE] I hope so
[QUOTE=axon;28575052]and lol @ 3d out of box only 1gb of ram lol[/QUOTE] again, you thick headed goof, it has 2gb.
[QUOTE=MacTrekkie;28578362]again, you thick headed goof, it has 2gb.[/QUOTE] 1 per GPU and since their internal SLi only 1 gb is actually usable. learn about how memory doesn't stack in SLi
[QUOTE=axon;28579399]1 per GPU and since their internal SLi only 1 gb is actually usable. learn about how memory doesn't stack in SLi[/QUOTE] No actually in this card it does have 2 GB of VRAM.
couldn't you technically SLI 2 460s together to get the same result
Yeah, why?
[QUOTE=Odellus;28589453]No actually in this card it does have 2 GB of VRAM.[/QUOTE] 1GB per card and only 1GB is gonna be usable. learn something about SLi why dontcha
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I hear it will be priced lower than a single 580. That's nice, so I'm guessing between 400-500.
Axon is right. The amount of memory on a dual GPU card is practically half of what it always is. Memory does not stack in SLI/Crossfire, only the bus does. It functions like a RAID1 array, where the storage size is cut in half, but you get double read speeds and the same write speeds as a single card. The 6990 is only capable of using 2GB of video memory in a "usable" sense, despite it advertising as 4GB, but you could apply the same logic to a 6970CF and claim it's also 4GB, when it's really not, as it doesn't stack. So a dual 460 card is still bottlenecked at high resolutions if it runs out of memory. Some of you need to conduct more research.
[QUOTE=Dark-Energy;28614223]Axon is right. The amount of memory on a dual GPU card is practically half of what it always is. Memory does not stack in SLI/Crossfire, only the bus does. It functions like a RAID1 array, where the storage size is cut in half, but you get double read speeds and the same write speeds as a single card. The 6990 is only capable of using 2GB of video memory in a "usable" sense, despite it advertising as 4GB, but you could apply the same logic to a 6970CF and claim it's also 4GB, when it's really not, as it doesn't stack. So a dual 460 card is still bottlenecked at high resolutions if it runs out of memory. Some of you need to conduct more research.[/QUOTE] Why couldn't they make it work more in the "RAID0" kind of way? It's not like Vram needs any redundancy...
They don't make it function like RAID1 for redundancy, that's just the nature of multi card configurations. RAID0 stripes data which means there's 2 completely different sets of information of both hard drives. Since stacking memory in a multi-gpu config would imply completely different information on both frame buffers, it cannot work because both cards process the exact same information, just in alternate frames. The only way you could theoretically stack memory is by completely splitting rendering information to 2 GPU's and then combining it again, like reverse hyper threading.
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