Nvidia Unveils Its New Monster : 7950 GX2

At Computex 2006 Nvidia today officially released their newest and highest-end card the GeForce 7950 GX2, which is a direct competitor to rival ATI’s 1900 XTX series of cards. Performance wise the GeForce 7950 GX2 is about 72% faster than the current single-GPU graphics cards on the market. Nvidia says this monster card’s specifications will look like this: It will ship with 500MHz core clock speed and 600/1200MHz memory alongside 48 pixel pipes, 16 vertex shaders, 76.8GBps of memory bandwidth and a fill rate of 24 billion texels per second and all this just using just one PCI Express slot. 1 GB of GDDR3 VRAM also makes it onboard and there are 2x dual-link DVI ports enabling high def, widescreen flat panel displays that support resolutions of up to 2560 x 1600. The card also has full blown support for Quad NVIDIA SLI technology, which will allow an enthusiast to combine the power of two GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics cards giving an enormous increase in graphical power and new realism in games. The cards will retail at a price of 600$ (Rs 28,000)