GTX 295 specifications, also I am going to CES.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 01:33:52 Tue, December 09, 2008

It looks like my trip to CES 2009 this year will be an eventful one. According to Expreview I will get a chance to see (and possibly use) the new GTX 295 before any of you normal schmucks on January 8th. The card will feature two GPU cores with 480 stream processors, 1,792MB of GDDR3 operating on 896 bit memory bus. The total power draw will be somewheres around 289 Watts. That is a good amount of information, but not quite enough to create the GTX 295 page at this juncture.

Yes it is true folks! I am going to CES in January and I am doing it for you! Well mostly for you. I have a feeling that I will have a really great time as well... This will be my first time reporting news for GPUReview.com on location so I am totally psyched. I got everything I need except for my GPUReview business cards that Mike promised me. So where are those Mike? I looked in my wallet today and I for some reason I did not see them. Weird huh?

17 Comments

Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:46:50 PM

Headfoot
Senior Member

Stomping ground and digging up news, way to go! Im looking forward to seeing your impression of CES.

Also it's somewhat interesting to see they took the bus and memory configuration from GTX 260 and stuck with the max shader count still like GTX 280. I guess they didn't want to risk not beating 4870X2.

Tuesday, December 09, 2008 3:46:25 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

That's one weird card . Another HOT sandwich coming up I guess... one PCB solutions are MUCH better , even if only because of the better heat dissipation .
As for the CES , should be interesting .

Tuesday, December 09, 2008 6:07:55 PM

Casecutter
Member

The 4870X2 uses the Gen2 bridge interconnect chip for Crossfire. While the last Nvidia dual card ran the interconnect over the mobo PCI-E Bus to bridge the two. Wonder if that going to change?

Tuesday, December 09, 2008 7:41:51 PM

Headfoot
Senior Member

The dual-pcb or single-pcb debate reminds me of actual sandwiches.

You can go double-decker (nVidia) or you can go extra long sub (ATi). Past that it's just a matter if you want sauce or not.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:22:41 AM

jimday
n00b

steve, maybe you left your business cards in your other pants...NOT

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:23:13 AM

anonymousD
n00b

nice.bring us pics and vids maite!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:16:14 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

@anonymousD Pics, vids and stories will be posted during the show. Maybe not while the show is open during the day, but I will make sure to post all my stuff when I get back to my hotel.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:50:27 PM

Radiator
Senior Member

Headfoot - There's a bit more to it , it's a hell of a lot easier to keep a single PCB card cooled , than it is to keep a GX2 sandwich cooled , so the GX2 is going to be extremely hot or extremely noisy or possibly both , considering how much power it's going to eat .

Thursday, December 11, 2008 2:34:53 PM

Headfoot
Senior Member

Well yeah there is but I'm talking about literal sandwiches.

Friday, December 12, 2008 9:54:20 AM

mrstew
n00b

This is going to be one HOT card

Friday, December 12, 2008 11:29:13 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

All that talk about sandwiches made me hungry ... plus how are they going to cool an actual sandwich ? O_O

Friday, December 12, 2008 12:31:33 PM

WhistleHeat
n00b

Have fun man! I really look forward to what you'll find. Maybe you'll bump into some more nVidia folks!

And I think my 500W PSU would hate the GTX 295. Just a guess. :)

Saturday, December 13, 2008 2:51:37 AM

aVaLaNcHe
Member

time to get me an enermax revolution85 1050W and a couple o' these babies

Sunday, December 14, 2008 9:09:11 PM

WhistleHeat
n00b

aVaLaNcHe: are you independently wealthy? Because if you are, you are one of the wisest ones ever. :)

Monday, December 15, 2008 9:31:13 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

Good luck with getting them working properly and good luck with getting any real performance increase from them .
But if you are a F@H enthusiast then it would actually prove useful .

Monday, December 15, 2008 9:18:40 PM

anonymousD
n00b

hmm...i just remembered something...didnt they ban the booth babes or something a year or so ago?

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 12:54:22 AM

I think you are thinking of E3

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