At GeForce LAN 4 in California, Kingpin got the chance to play around with NVIDIA’s “next generation SLI platform.” Of course he can’t reveal the exact specifications, but it was paired with two GeForce 8800 Ultras and an Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (ES). The latter was pushed to 5273 MHz (439×12) and the cards to 952 MHz GPU and 1221 MHz memory clock. The memory was running at 439 MHz with 3-3-3-8 timings. It’s important to note that these frequencies were not achieved with liquid nitrogen, but with dry ice. LN² will probably add more than a few hertz to both the CPU and GPU clocks.
Using the above setting he was able to reach 106,616 points in 3DMark 2001SE. To complete a run of 3DMark 06 he had to lower the frequencies to 5189 MHz (532.5×12), 941 MHz GPU and 1216 MHz memory, but then he was able to break 28,000 with SLI; 28,208 points. Since the platform isn’t available commercially yet, he has chosen not to post them at the ORB.
The screens below are not entirely correct because CPU-Z identifies the board as using the nForce 680i SLI chipset. At the same time we’re getting more and more reports about how Yorkfield is working better and better with this coming platform.
