eVGA and nVidia – A Halloween Treat?

The casual user or part time gamer will find nothing interesting about the release coming from nVidia thru eVGA in a few days. In a much different move than anything done by a mainstream graphics company previously, nVidia will be releasing a dual GPU video card. That of itself is not new; what is new is that the 2 GPUs are not identical, and they also are tasked with different jobs.

The card will have the equivalent of a GT200 series main GPU, and a G92 series GPU to handle the special game effects, known as PhysX.  When nVidia bought PhysX developer Aegia, the cards were only available in a PCI slot format, and were being held back by other traffic on the PCI bus and the disparity of bus speeds. By putting the two GPUs together, and allowing them to work through the PCIe 2.0 bus, the speed of both will not be compromised, and performance will be better for the heavy duty gamer.

That is the way the plan lays out – we shall see if it truly works that way.

from Tech Connect

Just before Halloween, on October 30th, EVGA and Nvidia have planned a launch event that is unfortunately not Fermi related, but will see to the introduction of an interesting card combining graphics and PhysX like never before. According to BSN, the upcoming card makes use of two GPUs – a GT200b and a G92b, and is a combination between a GeForce GTX 275 and a GeForce GTS 250.

The GTX 275 ‘part’ of EVGA’s card does all the graphics calculations required for your gaming, while the GTS 250 will handle physic workloads when running a game supporting GPU PhysX. The GTX 275 features 240 Processing Cores backed by 896MB of memory, while the GTS 250 has 128 PCs and 512MB of ‘PhysX’ RAM.

The price of the hybrid graphics/physics cards is yet unknown but all should be revealed in just one week. Wait for it.

Will this be a good deal price-wise? I cant help but wonder about those people who will want to have SLI and PhysX. Will this be the way to do it, with another single GPU card, or is it going to be more effective to put two identical GPUs on the same card, and the lesser card in another PCIe slot?

What catchy name will nVidia come up with?

I look for the results from the first ones reviewed on AnandTech.

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think of the power needed to render this as it occurs!