Fresh 9800GX2 Pictures Leaked

There have been a few websites to leak G92 pictures in the past month, but Chinese site ChipHell has those all beat with a few shots of their own. These images come at a perfect time, since AMD’s HD 3870 X2 launch was just yesterday. The first fact most people were posing was this… NVIDIA’s dual-GPU solution would no doubt beat AMD’s offering. From a technical standpoint, that might be true, but it sure isn’t true where looks are concerned.

The 9800GX2, unlike the HD 3870 X2, will consist of two PCB boards, a la 7950GX2. This seems reasonable, since it worked the first time. However, if AMD managed to create an elegant solution such as the single-PCB 3870 X2, why did NVIDIA stick to dual-PCBs? It might all work the same, but the finished result is certainly unrefined.

In all fairness though, these images are not exactly representative of the final product. In fact, they are plain disgusting, with gobs of thermal paste all over the place. Hopefully the retail product will change my mind. In the end though, looks don’t matter. It’s the performance that does, and we should know more about that in the coming weeks.

Source: VR-Zone