Last NVIDIA graphics card with dual-GPU turned mixed. She was presented at GTC 2014 , but the price of $ 3,000 was too high for most buyers. A little later, AMD presented its video card Radeon R9 295X2 , which sold much cheaper – from 1,300 euros.
Last week, held a secret meeting of employees of NVIDIA and the press in NYC. Some of the information began to emerge in social networks, but the resource WCCF told details. So, we are waiting for a graphics card with two GPU GM200. Perhaps we will get the full version of the GPU as graphics cards GeForce GTX Titan X and GeForce GTX 980 Ti . Inside GPU GM200 used 3,072 stream processors, 192 texture units and 96 raster operations pipelines. The volume of GDDR5 memory is 6 or 12 GB. In theory, these characteristics for dual-GPU cards can be doubled. But so far it is not clear what kind of GPU GM200 will be used.
According WCCF, testers have already received the first samples of the video card, so they are already working on the tests. All this points to the imminent announcement of video card – at least in the form of an official announcement and presentation of performance results. This dual-GPU graphics card will be the first and probably the only such model in the architecture of Maxwell. The GPU GM204, which is used in the GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 seems to be a suitable candidate for the graphics card with two GPU, but this model has not appeared. Possibly, NVIDIA wanted to wait until the next development stage, which appeared in the form of a GPU GM200 spring today processor made for several months.
So we will wait for the technical details of a new video card with two GPU. There remains the question of positioning because the GeForce GTX Titan X was presented for the price 1.149 euros – not cheap. Video card with two GPU GM200 will certainly cost more than 1,500 euros. Do not repeat the mistakes NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan Z? Wait and see.
