http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=3479&p=6
You can get it for 460/470 on two of the main buying sites.
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http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=3479&p=6
You can get it for 460/470 on two of the main buying sites.
the GTX 295 looks pretty powerful, I'm impressed :eek:
am a bit miffed as to why they did not use the Catalyst 8.11 drivers however I can see why they did not use them. FYI reviewers don't have a lot of time these days to review hardware (thanks to these quick product cycles).
I wouldn't be surprised if the Catalyst 8.10 drivers were used on the 4870X2 in a different article/review and they just copied those scores into this review...it's not bias, just confined to the time constraints.
I hope that newer drivers also bring us with GTX 280's performance increases to, after all the cards are pretty similar?
I wonder whether the GTX 295 suffers from the microstutter problems which the 9800 GX2 and HD 4870X2 cards suffer from?
I hope not.
Regards
John
If you have the time to do a review of a card that isn't out yet, then you should have time to use recent drivers for the competitions cards OR you can simply not include them.
Why not just put them against a 3870 X2 with 8.1 drivers while they are at it? Sure that would make the GTX 295 look good. Hell, they might as well copied Nvidia's marketing slides and called it a day. The whole thing is horribly unprofessional.
Hi Stukov
The thing is they probably do not have a lot of time with the card itself. Reviewers probably only have the card for a few days and then have to post it back.
I agree with what you are saying Catalyst 8.11/8.12 would be nice and perhaps should be required for reviewing such cards as these drivers include bug fixes and even performance tweaks for the games in these reviews (FarCry2 and Left4Dead etc).
John
I agree with you, it's inevitable that NVIDIA would come with something faster some day. The performance difference won't be as big as what was shown in the review though.
It will probably lower the price on the 4870X2, which is always nice for those whom want one. I'm more interested in what the GTX265 and GTX285 will do to the current pricing structure, the GTX265 will probably be a reasonable bit faster than the 4870 while priced around the same price as what the 4870 currently is and that will benefit us all.
there is no 265 as far as i remember only 285
I am a Nvidia fanboy and i find that the review was a joke. Come on Nvidia let the reviewers do what they want. you never know they might work in Nvidia's favor. I think OBR's review or Guru3D's review will be the ones to look forward to.
ati needs to improve its software that dead space bench is joke what are they thinking i don't know
Damn the performance diference in Crysis Warhead is :eek:
is it just me or are the gains over 280/260 shy of impressive?
its basically gtx 280 sli until 2560x1600 res then it dies :P
no it isn't 1796 only 898 or smthng like that nvidias weird memory choices this card is simply hybrid of gtx 280 and gtx 260 poor memory kills it in very high res
The card only has 896mb of memory because the memory isn't shared for both gpus.
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...d-preview.html
The Hardware Canucks preview is up.
We all know, that Crysis is NVIDIA friendly game :P
The performance difference between 4870X2 and GTX295 isn't that big, when we keep in mind how late is the new sandwich. It IS the fastest card, but too late. Now we are waiting to see if ATi have something hidden with the Side Port.
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...y_performance/
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,67...l-Grafikkarte/
http://www.pcpop.com/doc/0/355/355395.shtml
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-295-preview/1
my own reviews will be out soon, again i have problem with publication system.
Well how can anyone deny that is the fastest card not avilable yet.
If the 499U.S at launch price is right,thats a winning combo,since the x2 cost me 560U.S the first week.