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		<title>NVIDIA Drops Dual GPU Madness with new GTX 275</title>
		<link>http://thruit.com/2009/11/nvidia-drops-dual-gpu-madness-with-new-gtx-275/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Bellezza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hardware]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EVGA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GPU]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GTX 250]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GTX 275]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-315" title="GTX275DUALGPU" src="http://thruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/GTX275DUALGPU-300x300.jpg" alt="GTX275DUALGPU" width="253" height="253" />Halloween may have come and gone but that doesn't stop NVIDIA from dropping a new freakishly branded Halloween addition to the GTX 275 graphics card just in time for you to ask Santa to buy you one. It seems as though NVIDIA has set a milestone for Dual GPU's alike. They have taken two <em>different </em>GPU's and crammed them onto one card.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-315" title="GTX275DUALGPU" src="http://thruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/GTX275DUALGPU-300x300.jpg" alt="GTX275DUALGPU" width="269" height="269" />Halloween may have come and gone but that doesn&#8217;t stop NVIDIA from dropping a new freakishly branded Halloween addition to the GTX 275 graphics card just in time for you to ask Santa to buy you one. It seems as though NVIDIA has set a milestone for Dual GPU&#8217;s alike. They have taken two <em>different </em>GPU&#8217;s and crammed them onto one card.</p>
<p>Dubbed &#8220;<a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/hybrid_sli.html">Hybrid SLI</a>&#8221; this baby has the beautiful <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gtx_275_us.html">GTX 275 GPU</a> <em>and </em>the<a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gts_250_us.html"> GTS 250</a> with well over a gig of DDR3 memory between the two GPU&#8217;s (1280MB). The GTX 275 GPU is used for handling all graphics and renderings, while the GTS 250 is dedicated to rendering all the <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_new.html">PhysX </a>calculations. With the two GPUs, the abundance of memory and the combined clock speeds this baby pumps out about 179.8 GB/sec of memory bandwidth.</p>
<p>I bet all of you crazy, liquid-cooled, overclocking, Crysis loving (mmm so pretty), performance junkies are probably wetting yourself right about now. Especially because now you can toss that <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_new.html">PhysX </a>card into the trash and use that extra PCIe 2.0 slot for your third beauty, and triple SLI the crap out of your rig.</p>
<p>If your looking for performance numbers to validate the purchase of this baby I am limited in my benchmarks as I am going off what I have read myself thus far. However, I can tell you that games that support dedicated <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_new.html">PhysX </a>PPU support show anywhere from 20 to 40% increase in performance vs. using just the CPU to do your <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_new.html">PhysX </a>Calculations.</p>
<p>So what will one of these little pieces of heaven cost you, you ask? Probably retailing well above $300. However, it seems as though <a href="http://www.evga.com/articles/00503/">EVGA </a>will be tossing in a copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum with the purchase to make you feel a little less guilty for using that tuition check you got from your parents to pay for it.</p>
<p>Thoughts on this little device? I for one, never really thought the <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/physx_new.html">PhysX </a>thing would kick in before NVDIA developed a new computing technology for physics engines, so I&#8217;d love to hear what you all think/wanna see from NVIDIA with these new cards.</p>
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