Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Asus announces double-barreled Nvidia 3D card


Asus announced its EN9800GX2 graphics card, similar to Nvidia's GeForce 7950GX2 should have been. That card, if you'll recall from the summer of 2006, was the first SLI-on-a-single-card design from Nvidia. Effectively, it put two 3D chips on a single two-slot card.

The problem with the GeForce 7950 GX2 was that it was expensive, and it hit the market about five months before the first DirectX 10 cards came out. Asus EN9800GX2 (and similar cards from other Nvidia board partners) fixes that generation gap. At $600 it's still expensive, but the pair of GeForce 9800 graphics chips built into it are fully DirectX 10 compatible.

Of course, DirectX 10 compatibility doesn't necessarily guarantee fast performance. To say finally, Crysis is the game that one can use to test each and every graphic card for a long time.

Source:crave.cnet.com

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