Exclusive: Nvidia GeForce 9800GX2

The first pictures of what seems to be the

GeForce 9800GX2 have just popped up on the web. We now have a good idea of what the card looks like.

We know that the 9800GX2 has 2 printed circuit boards (PCBs), as did the 7950GX2 in its time, two graphics processing units (GPUs) using 65 nm nodes (most likely G92s with 128 stream processors), 1 GB of memory (512 MB for each GPU) and two DVI outputs.

We don't know yet if the GeForce 9800GX2, which is supposed to be 30% faster than the 8800 Ultra Compare Prices on GeForce 8800 Ultra Video Cards , will support Quad SLI configurations.

The expected price: around $449 US. Expected announcement date: February 14, 2008.

Specification

Chipset	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2
Memory	1GB
Memory Bus	2x256 bit
Memory Type	GDDR3
Card dimension	ATX
Bus Type	PCI-E 2.0
Bus Speed	x16
D-SUB	Y (By Adapter)
TV-OUT	No
DVI Port	Y (DVI-I)
VIVO	No
Multi View	Yes