New GTX 295 specifications, now with 100% more free pics!

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 04:17:37 Tue, December 16, 2008

Some of you were leaving comments asking about whether or not the GTX 295 will have 2 PCBs (like the 9800 GX2) or just one. Well now there is photographic evidence that the GTX 295 is a dual PCB card.

BEHOLD!

The rest of Expreview's new article provides me with all the details I need to create the chip and page for the GTX 295 except for the name of the new chip and its transistor count. Do not be discouraged though, because I am going to guess at the transistor count (it does not get factored into any of the calculated rates) and I am going to call the chip SourCream. I will change them both once I find out what they will be.

One more thing. The article also includes some disturbing proof of the savage beating that the GTX 295 gave the HD 4870 X2 in the latest games.

8 Comments

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 5:40:20 PM

Headfoot
Senior Member

I'm always very wary of pre-release benchmarks, they are often cherry picked. But we will see, it looks promising.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 8:27:07 PM

Tofuman88
n00b

Looks incredibly promising, however I did notice an extreme bias that will throw everyone for a trip within the linked review, it is the simple fact that they boast a whole chart on PhyX performance when this is something owned by nvidia. ATI wouldn't really have a shot at competing against that to be honest. Interesting beast this GTX 295 will be. Let it be known that I am neither ATI or Nvidia prone, I go with the best at the time :) And really...I wish they would just dual-core gpu it up. Seriously a step back technically, but think of it really it would be proof of a concept and I would buy it.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008 10:12:37 PM

WhistleHeat
n00b

I should feel awe at the power.
Or disgust at the overkill.
Or interest in the technological advancement.

I feel the unreasonable desire to get one. :)

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:40:59 AM

jimday
n00b

the "Expreview's new article" doesn't exist any more

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 2:40:26 PM

Casecutter
Member

Not much in the way of technological advancement, we all will be in awe of the power supply required for this over the top expensive monolithic. And no they can't do a dual core GPU from the current Nvidia "build it bigger mentality". Nvidia has to change their architecture to really move forward.
And, that points us to why this big "smoke screen" for the fact that they've no-way to shore up their $100-250 price point. It the typical reason they release these crazy "dual board" designs with externally linked chipped. Let's not buy into it, remenber when a GTX280 commanded $600 and now it's floundering at only $270...

Wednesday, December 17, 2008 3:01:29 PM

shansoft
n00b

I can smell this thing will be burning again like GX2 did....

If this is still benchmark card, I guess I should smack those designer in the head...

Thursday, December 18, 2008 3:43:28 AM

@Tofuman88 - Bias? Because ATI boards don't support PhysX? That's like saying any site comparing DX10.1 performance between ATI and Nvidia is biased. It's worth pointing out to people trying to make an informed decision about which board to buy that if they go ATI, they're going to see poor performance in PhysX-supporting games. Or any GPGPU app for that matter - ATI has been falling further and further behind Nvidia in the field of GPU-compute, from physics processing (nonexistent) to Folding@Home (slow) to video transcode (artifact-ridden).

Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:36:45 PM

aliquidparadigm
Senior Member

http://en.expreview.com/2008/12/10/geforce-gtx-295-card-exposed.html - new link for the expreview page

So, wait... perhaps I'm misinterpreting the photo there, but are both PCBs going to be sharing a heatsink? ...and fan? If so, no wonder previous iterations of the dual-PCB cards overheat like a sumbitty.

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