[H]ard|OCP reviews XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 video card
We saw what the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 can do; now it is time for NVIDIA to step up and impress us with their “SLI on a card” video card with the GeForce 9800 GX2. Inside we will compare an XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 with two SLI setups and the ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 in Crysis, Clive Barker's Jericho, and COD 4.
This is not the first time NVIDIA has produced a dual-GPU on a single PCB (printed circuit board.) Their first foray into this design for gamers was the GeForce 7950 GX2 way back in the summer of 2006. One of the advantages touted for having two-GPUs matted in a single video card form was for gamers to enjoy the benefits of SLI performance if they did not have an SLI motherboard. Truly, it worked, and with the new GeForce 9800 GX2 this is still the case, you do not need an "SLI" motherboard for this video card to work...
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