RSSIntel and Nvidia to work together on Nehalem
By Tim Conneally | Published July 14, 2008, 5:43 PM
GPU maker Nvidia has been in the press a lot lately, for its tight-lippedness on the failure rates of its 8-series mobile GPUs, its dire competition with AMD/ATI, and its new Rambus patent litigation. Today, however, brought some good news.
Intel announced today that the upcoming single-socket desktop Nehalem CPU platform known as Bloomfield will be getting Nvidia's SLI technology, despite an article in the The Wall Street Journal this morning, saying that Intel and Nvidia were still "squabbling over terms of a 2003 licensing agreement" that could have blocked Nehalem chips from having SLI.
Scalable Link Interface (SLI) is Nvidia's trademarked multi-GPU architecture that allows chaining video cards together to share the graphics processing workload. Intel's announcement today coincidentally highlights the GeForce GTX 260 and 280 GPUs, Nvidia's four-week-old graphics cards that just significantly dropped in price.
Last night, Nvidia announced that the GTX 260 would go from $399 to $299, and the higher-end GTX 280 would go from $649 to $499, bringing them closer in price to their competitors from ATI.
The company claims graphics performance is 2.8 times faster than a single graphics card system, when using the nForce 200 SLI MCP with Intel's Bloomfield CPU and Tylersburg core logic chipset, even with a resolution of 2500 x 1600 with all the "eye candy" turned on.
I thought that SLI/Crossfire was a stepping stone
and multicore GPUs were just beyond the horizon.
I'm sure Nvidia and ATI would love to sell matching sets of card to everyone.
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|You should be more clear in stating that Intel has licensed SLI for the socket platform/chipset. Nehalem is also the name of the next-gen processor, rather the whole next-gen microarchitecture.
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|Maxritz talk to your local companies if the price of Nvidia products are not priced competitively.
Your supplier has to purchase it for a given price, there are costs to get that product to India. If your supplier is trying to raise the product beyond that sweet spot you should tell them.
Nvidia only suggests a retail price, the cost of the product remains static and only the cost of getting it to the supplier changes. Can't really fault Nvidia for not wanting to pay for any importation fees if they are not the ones getting the profit from it being sold.
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|Yes. Nvidia dropped prices . why dont they sell it really cheaper in India, that too at the same price we have outside of here. Well anyway what the heck. GP GPU is sham anyways. If windows/linux would leverage that then wecan run some virtual machines on it
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|yeah and my pc can cook popcorn
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