nVidia Working On GeForce 9800GX2?

Judging from this prototype image they are in fact working on just that, a dual GPU graphics card based on the GeForce 9800. The reason it looks like they took apart a pair of 9800's and inverted one of them on top of the other and combined the interfaces is because that's more or less what they did, oh, and they stuck a cooler in between the two.

Like I said it's a prototype, but in my opinion, giving each GPU its own PCB is a far better idea than AMD's iteration of a dual GPU card where they tried sticking 2 GPUs on the same PCB, I just think the performance would be better with each GPU doing its own thing than trying to mesh the two together, I mean multi-CPU computers don't scale well, so why would a multi GPU graphics card be any different. The performance is rumored to be noticeably low, but its suspected that issue is due to almost a complete lack of driver support.

No word on when we can expect to see a production version of this card, if ever, but if we do it could supply the public another Quad-SLI option with the newer cards as the last time they did this was with the 7950GX2. Expect it to cost a lot if they do start producing these.

[via nordichardware]