X-bitlabs reviews Gigabyte GV-NX96T512H-B 9600 GT video card
The GPU developers are doing their best to promote multi-GPU technologies in all market sectors. Today we’ll find out what is the purpose of multi-GPU support in mainstream graphics cards. Is it just a marketing feature or an affordable method of boosting performance? We will check it out using Gigabyte GV-NX96T512H-B.
Supported by the entire graphics card range, from cheap $59 products to luxurious $800 ones, multi-GPU technologies have only been really popular when applied to top-end solutions. It is easy to explain. Many people who buy premium-class solutions do not actually care about the price. They can just as easily buy two or even three advanced graphics cards to get highest performance possible in particular games. It is this user category that ensures a stable market niche for ATI CrossFire and Nvidia SLI systems. As we learned in our recent test session, these systems can indeed provide unprecedented performance in many applications notwithstanding some drawbacks...
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