GTX_595 - Dual Gpu

[pskdude]

I hope this is true this would be great. How would this scale with Vray, will it make a difference ?

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives..._pictured.html

[vlado]

The most important thing for V-Ray is the number of CUDA cores; the article doesn't say how many of these will be present in the 595 card.

Best regards,
Vlado

[dpmitchell]

Depending on the price, could be a good option for people with limited PCI-e slots. The picture shows that the card consists of two GF110 fermi chips (the new fermi chip that debuted GTX 580). No telling how many CUDA cores each GF110 would have, but you'd figure it would have at least as many CUDA cores as the smallest fermi to date. Plus, having 3GB of dedicated RAM on one PCB would help with larger data sets, and one would assume that the power draw would be less than 2 separate 50% equivalent cards.

If this is real, could be a good card for GPU rendering, as long as nVidia didn't disable FP64 (double precision FLOPS) on this chip. They already disabled it on many of the multiprocessors of the GF100 series Geforce cards to separate it from the Tesla cards. The Quadro 2000 and 600 cards used newer GF104 & GF108 chips, but those were severely limited in terms of FP64 (something like 1/12 of FP32). The Quadro 4000/5000/6000 cards stuck with the GF100 chips because of the FP64 capability. Don't know how the GF110 stacks up in terms of being capable of FP64 computations, or if nVidia decided to disable it even if it is built to be capable of FP64.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

3gb split ? so basically 2x 1.5 gb so all we gaining is extra core per pci slot...

Dunno but I want it to be 6 gb ;s cmon after market companies make it 6 gb !