Tuesday, December 2nd 2008
Dual GeForce GTX 260 to be Officially Named GeForce GTX 295
NVIDIA would be giving its flagship consumer graphics processor, the G200 a refresh using the newer 55nm silicon fabrication process. With this, the company plans to carve out new SKUs taking the benefit of enhanced thermal and electrical properties of the updated core. In the pipeline, is a dual-GPU card based on two GeForce GTX 260 GPUs.
Expreview learned that the new graphics card is to be named GeForce GTX 295. NVIDIA is creating the card to regain the performance crown from ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, the fastest single graphics card in the market. The card will sport two G200b cores in the 216 SP configuration, although not much is known about the memory configuration and clock speeds, at this point in time. The card has already passed design phase and is awaiting trial production and testing. It is expected to be released in January 2009.
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Expreview
Expreview learned that the new graphics card is to be named GeForce GTX 295. NVIDIA is creating the card to regain the performance crown from ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, the fastest single graphics card in the market. The card will sport two G200b cores in the 216 SP configuration, although not much is known about the memory configuration and clock speeds, at this point in time. The card has already passed design phase and is awaiting trial production and testing. It is expected to be released in January 2009.
98 Comments on Dual GeForce GTX 260 to be Officially Named GeForce GTX 295
And that 8800 Ultra... Oh Snap :banghead:
im a noob... and rele don't know much about the apps i run. i just like playin my games
This will be a monster card... im guessing at around the $360-$400 range when it does come out... 8800Ultra and GTX 280 came out when there was no competition. Thank god for ATI (they gave my 260's so cheap).
W1zz?
And then the i7 came out and changed all that :rockout:
right now in Aus, a 4870X2 is 800-900 AUD, and a GTX280 is 650-750.....
if a true multi core approach can be made, with a single - large - shared framebuffer i may reconsider....
however, its a given i like to have the best of the best, my thoughts are this will be THE card.
that and for the time being im done with my 4870, i dislike the driver controll panel, and in all honesty the 4870 appears cheaply made compared to every nvidia card ive ever owned bar the FX5600XT :laugh:
also, i dove right on 2x512 mb models which i regret given 1gb models came out VERY soon after.
Anyways, quad SLI still has kinks. A single GTX295 would be good though.
But I somehow get the new nVidia naming scheme now.. you can somehow get a glimpse of what kind of performance you will get when you compare em. look at GTX 260, 265, 280.. and now GTX 295. Im seeing that its performance gap from the GTX 280 is not that large compared to a GTX 260 vs GTX 280...
Come to think of it I'd like to see the power consumption too.
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www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Leadtek/GeForce_GTX_260_Extreme_Plus/24.html