NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 gets (mostly) official

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 gets (mostly) official

Well, here's a bit of a surprise. While most folks were only expecting NVIDIA to announce its GeForce GTX 295 graphics card at CES, the company has now come out and gotten official with it today, although it's still holding back on a few details until the big show. As rumored earlier this month, the card packs two 55-nanometer GT200 GPUs, a staggering 1,792MB of video memory, a total of 480 stream processors, and a not-too-ridiculous TDP rating of 289 watts. What's more, while they faced some restrictions from NVIDIA, the folks at bit-tech were able to run a few benchmarks on the card and found that it does indeed seem to live up to its promise of besting ATI's top-end Radeon HD 4870 X2. That appears to partly back up those early numbers that leaked out yesterday, although bit-tech is quick to point out that the card doesn't deliver the same performance leap seen when AMD rolled out its card. Still, they do seem to think that NVIDIA has a winner on its hands, assuming that it actually manages to meet (or even beat) the 4870 in terms of price. Hit up the link below for bit-tech's complete numbers, plus a few more.

Read - HotHardware, "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Specifications Unveiled"
Read - bit-tech.net, "First Look: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 295 graphics card"
Read - Guru 3D, "GeForce GTX 295 Preview"
Read - PC Perspective, "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Preview - Performance King Returns"

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Post by **HereComesPete** » December 19th, 2008, 2:07

Looks shit though. Needs more flames and such to show how fast it will go. Or possibly some elven chick with massive chebs firing a pimped out hand cannon into the fan, that makes them look better.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » December 19th, 2008, 2:20

Also sounds like nvidia cost cutting has got to its performance at the silly high end.

Basically this is a GX2-260, that is a pair of GTX260s in one package (that costs more than a pair of GTX260s)

Also, sounds like it has some performance trouble with AA so far, might be drivers, or nvidia fucking up.

This is gonna be a card to watch, just because it makes no sense, at all.

Lee · Post by **Lee** » December 19th, 2008, 12:13

The 9800GX2's were two 8800gts's rather than gtx's so this is no different. I wouldn't bother with it though, what with all the problems that come with multi gpu setups. Also theres the fact that usually when nvidia release a multi gpu card it means that the next generation is only a few months away.

Post by **HereComesPete** » December 19th, 2008, 18:02

I'm expecting them to cobble two 280's together next, whether they'll manage it with the heat and such who knows. Like Lee said, sure sign they've run out of refinements/innovations to an extent, I'm thinking the new year will see both sides announce new products.