NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX triple-SLI rig benched

Looks like the first NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX cards have made their way out in the world -- officially announced or not -- and TweakTown's got the benches. Performance gains seem marginal in triple-SLI over dual, but hey, those drivers probably aren't finished and these cards aren't official, so we recommend withholding judgment until it's all legit.

[suppr @ Mar 30th 2008 6:22PM]

yes but can it play doom.

[OziD @ Mar 30th 2008 6:30PM]

negative. thats the single drawback of triple-SLI. it can't play doom.

just doom though.

[z3r0D @ Mar 30th 2008 6:39PM]

No. It'd be silly for a 1000$+ video card setup to play a four year old game.

Pure silly.

[Backlin @ Mar 30th 2008 6:43PM]

ROFL, try 14 years old.

[Mike10010100 @ Mar 30th 2008 7:13PM]

Holy mother *********************&#%$^@(*&#$ expelative.

This thing is a work of pure beauty.

And just to let the original poster know, this thing would run 100 copies of doom at the same time....and crisis....while encoding video.....and checking email.

[Mist @ Mar 30th 2008 7:27PM]

no you can't because you really don't know how to play doom with your ass, kid :D

[Flashpoint @ Mar 30th 2008 7:44PM]

I haven't been keeping up with Video Cards since GEFORCE 3.

I'll just assume that when you've got cables thicker than heavy duty extension cords - you can play Crysis.

[balderdash @ Mar 30th 2008 8:21PM]

The "cables" are coolant tubes, not giant data cables.

Wait, that makes it sound even more ridiculous.

[erhan @ Mar 30th 2008 9:54PM]

Seriously?
are you re-tarded kid?
Your comment is not funny. The main reason this joke WAS funny, was the fact that its original. (not anymore). So I beg of you not to kill other comments like that.

BTW, I feel dumber already..

[MikeG @ Mar 30th 2008 11:50PM]

Not only will it play it, but it will make you better at the game too!

[Dave @ Mar 30th 2008 11:57PM]

I'd love to see what your monthly energy bill is running this rig, lol.

[OneLove @ Mar 31st 2008 2:32PM]

why lord? why? why must we buy 2 or three?

[Gorillamonk @ Mar 31st 2008 3:04PM]

it can play doom and castle wolfenstein. At once...while dialing out on the internet to AOL. Its the new hotness.

[mopo @ Mar 30th 2008 6:23PM]

my 8800gtx is still going strong, and i find sli to be a waste of time, money, resources and power!

[E71 @ Mar 31st 2008 3:28AM]

Not to mention coolant.

[Canney @ Mar 31st 2008 11:10PM]

not to mention the fact current pc architechture "can not" read "can not" use the cards in tandem properly... best wait for PCIE 2.0 componants than throwing money away on SLI or CrossFire. Duel GPU cards do work better if you cant wait. Cant remember if this card is a X2 GPU on 1 die though o.O

[NineT9 @ Mar 30th 2008 6:27PM]

will these work in my apple IIc?

[ethana2 @ Mar 30th 2008 9:47PM]

OSX hardware support is terrible. I recommend Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Ubuntu Linux.

Open the blob!

[nate @ Mar 30th 2008 10:57PM]

your logic confuses me
what does OSX's hardware support have to do with NineT9's Apple IIc

[GrizzlyAdams @ Mar 31st 2008 2:23AM]

It would if Apple would have seen the writing on the wall and included three PCI-e x16 slots back in 1984. Though, you can emulate a few hundred Apple IIc's on one GeForce 9800 :D CUDA kicks ass.

[kyle allen @ Mar 31st 2008 3:15AM]

not on a IIc.... maby a IIvx tho

[Dylan K @ Mar 30th 2008 6:32PM]

Still waiting for the 10 series. Don't want to have to buy 3 cards to get Crysis to run maxed at only almost 30 FPS.

[Fernando G @ Mar 30th 2008 6:37PM]

9800 gtx in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

[Aguiluz @ Mar 30th 2008 6:51PM]

Whoops! I know what's there!

(-1)

[Backlin @ Mar 30th 2008 7:02PM]

Boooo!

[Rob Conway @ Mar 30th 2008 7:14PM]

god! i'm so reckless with my mouse hand, as i clicked that link i thought "why!!!!!!" i deserve the punishment.

[hp540 @ Mar 30th 2008 7:53PM]

oh snap.

[Vesh @ Mar 30th 2008 7:55PM]

"Never gonna let you down."

Oh but YOU just did.....

[aardvark sandwich @ Mar 30th 2008 10:23PM]

Thank you for your very original contribution.

Seriously, I think this "joke" has run its course; don't you?

[Indeed @ Mar 30th 2008 11:27PM]

ooh someone got rick roll'd a few too many

[Vesh @ Mar 31st 2008 12:06AM]

Be forewarned, but I thought this was fitting:

http://rickastleychart.ytmnd.com/

[Ted @ Mar 31st 2008 11:15AM]

I like that song, so I clicked the link with full expectation of the consequences.

[Do I look indie yet @ Mar 30th 2008 6:50PM]

This might be useful if you wish to play Crysis with a 100inch screen, but I'm not so sure about anything else.

[Maestro @ Mar 30th 2008 6:50PM]

Well at least there is room for other expansion cards after you install 3 of those beasts...oh wait...

[Bobs @ Mar 30th 2008 7:58PM]

Hope you like onboard ethernet and audio, cuz when one of those fries, your gonna need a new mobo

[cydonia @ Mar 30th 2008 6:51PM]

hmm is it just me? or do the benchmarks seem relatively on par with quad sli?

[Peter @ Mar 30th 2008 8:00PM]

Um, this is actually 6-way SLI in reality, since there are three of the already SLI'ed GX2's.

[Peter @ Mar 30th 2008 8:02PM]

Oops, I misread the title. I thought it said GX2, not GTX, so my bad. Forget what I said.

[Frankenstein Black @ Mar 30th 2008 6:53PM]

Why liquid cooling if none of the precious fluid touches any of the 3 cards? Just sayin...

[Tony @ Mar 30th 2008 7:18PM]

You are mistaken. Those pipes actually contain the chemicals that turn regular teenage turtles into teenage mutant ninja turtles.

[DiscoCat5 @ Mar 31st 2008 1:45AM]

hahaha @ tony

[james @ Mar 30th 2008 6:56PM]

YES!! now I can play pong at 320x240!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Alexander @ Mar 30th 2008 7:11PM]

Not only Pong, but you can also play Asteroids too!

[p3nis @ Mar 30th 2008 7:36PM]

GALAGA

[bjrcboy @ Mar 30th 2008 9:00PM]

Joust!

[james @ Mar 31st 2008 1:01AM]

and PAC-MAN!!!

[Mark @ Mar 31st 2008 4:41AM]

dig dug!

[Kurian @ Mar 31st 2008 5:27AM]

CD-MAN >>> Pacman

[Bobby @ Mar 30th 2008 7:03PM]

Most importantly.... Will it blend?

[Denver_80203 @ Mar 30th 2008 9:20PM]

I hate you