NVIDIA Possibly Working on Dual GK110 Graphics Card – GeForce GTX 790

[rfarris]

Damn. Yesterday I ordered a GTX 780 Ti and today I see this:

http://www.hardware-360.com/nvidia-possibly-working-on-dual-gk110-graphics-card-geforce-gtx-790/

;)

[MiRai]

Dual-GPU cards are usually terrible for anyone not playing one instance of a game solo. The moment you disable SLI you're then stuck with a lesser version of the card you could have bought two of, but you paid twice as much for. And this is just the same marketing garbage we've been hearing for years:


and each GPU will have 5GB of memory, giving the card a total 10GB frame buffer
Anyone who has ever run multiple cards in SLI or Crossfire will know that's an absolute lie. The memory is mirrored across both GPUs and isn't added together.

The GTX 590 was marketed with 3GB of VRAM when it only came with 1.5GB.
The GTX 690 was marketed with 4GB of VRAM when it only came with 2GB.
And it looks like this new 790 will be marketed with 10GB, even though it'll only be 5GB in reality.

Don't get me wrong, 5GB of VRAM is nice, but dual-GPU cards can easily cause nothing but headaches -- They usually run hotter and you can't use the second GPU to "split the load" if you ever need to disable SLI.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Sounds like false advertising if they say it comes with 10 and it doesn't. They made the HDD manufaturers put those stickers on the drives that say 1,000 bytes are a kilobyte, not 1024 like your computer sees. Still a pain in every tech supports butt when a terabyte drive shows up as 860gigs or whatever and the pissed off customer complains.

[rfarris]

Nvidia hasn't said it is 10GB, a blogger said that. It's all rumors at this point.

[MiRai]

This is all I'm sayin'...

nVidia Blog GTX 590 (http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2011/03/24/the-geforce-gtx-590-has-arrived/):

With 1024 CUDA cores, 6 billion transistors, 3GB of GDDR5 memory, and over 2200 individual components all packed into an 11 inch dual slot PCB, GTX 590 is nothing short of an engineering marvel.

EVGA News Article GTX 590 Classified (https://www.evga.com/articles/00621/):

A massive 3,072MB of GDDR5 memory leaves the competition begging for mercy.

GPU-Z showing a GTX 590 with a 1536MB (1.5GB) Memory Size:

1078



nVidia Blog GTX 690 (http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2012/04/30/meet-geforce-gtx-690-the-ultimate-graphics-card/):

The GTX 690 features two Kepler-based GeForce GPUs and a whopping 4GB of GDDR5 RAM.

EVGA News Article GTX 690 (https://www.evga.com/articles/00679/#GTX690):



Memory Detail: 4096 MB GDDR5


GPU-Z showing a GTX 690 with a 2048MB (2GB) Memory Size:

1079



Such marketing bullshit. I just want people to know exactly what they're buying if they want a dual-GPU card.