GeForce GTX295 Card Exposed

[onethreehill]

VR-Zone scored the first photo of the upcoming GeForce GTX 295 card slated for launch over at CES 2009. The GeForce GTX 295 is based on the sandwich design again like the 9800GX2 with two 55nm GT200 GPUs. As you can see, there are 2 DVI and 1 Display Port. As for the power connectors, it uses 8+6 pins so that gives you a clue how much power this card needs. The pricing is yet to be disclosed but card makers are speculating that Nvidia will price it competitively against AMD 4870X2 card this time.

http://vr-zone.com/articles/geforce-....html?doc=6264

Updated: More GeForce GTX 295 Card Shots

Here are some more shots on the GeForce GTX 295 card. Enjoy! Among other things we have confirmed today are 480 SPs, 289W TDP, Quad SLI support. Clock speeds, performance and price still remains a mystery but we will soon find out. Can RV775 X2 card stands against this NV offering?

http://vr-zone.com/articles/more-gef....html?doc=6274

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

you would think they would have gone triple slot on this one....

[adamsleath]

yeah baby

i like it, a lot.

[Bo_Fox]

yeah baby

i like it, a lot.

ROFL!!!

[noinimod]

haha.. finally some pictures. What a power hungry card.. sigh

[Trouffman]

another crappy sandwich deign by nvidia... when will they understand that they should make dual GPU card intead of dual-PCB-for-dual-GPU card ?

SLI-like bridge on the bottom of the card ? Any possibility to use SLI rbige to have multi-Card SLI (i think yes !)

Waiting for the benches !!!

[dinos22]

i hope it will work with Vince's slim pots

[mrcape]

i hope it will work with Vince's slim pots

Ditto. Pop Tek9 slim in that woohoo!

[OBR]

another crappy sandwich deign by nvidia... when will they understand that they should make dual GPU card intead of dual-PCB-for-dual-GPU card ?

SLI-like bridge on the bottom of the card ? Any possibility to use SLI rbige to have multi-Card SLI (i think yes !)

Waiting for the benches !!!

sorry, but we already know, that will be sendwich half of year!

[s3rv3r]

Wich direct-x this video card support ?

[Tonucci]

another crappy sandwich deign by nvidia... when will they understand that they should make dual GPU card intead of dual-PCB-for-dual-GPU card ?

SLI-like bridge on the bottom of the card ? Any possibility to use SLI rbige to have multi-Card SLI (i think yes !)

Waiting for the benches !!!

I dont care if its sandwich, if it performs it performs...

The R&D costs to create an dual gpu single board may not be worth it. Its low volume cutting edge items sales...It may be more cost efficient to use 2 of pre-developed boards sandwiched together. If they are not huge and the performance/quality is there, i dont see the point in dismissing dual board cards.... Either one is one video card unit, one slot is used. Just a different (not necessarily worse) approach. Same thing with monolithic vs dual die CPUs...

[Blacky]

another crappy sandwich deign by nvidia... when will they understand that they should make dual GPU card intead of dual-PCB-for-dual-GPU card ?

SLI-like bridge on the bottom of the card ? Any possibility to use SLI rbige to have multi-Card SLI (i think yes !)

Waiting for the benches !!!

did you really expect a single pcb with those gigantic chips for real ? unless you wanted a skateboard on your rig! by other hand who cares as long work as intended! that all that matters !




















I was expecting the card like palit ATi X2 tho 3 slots and btw looks sexy

[Glow9]

did you really expect a single pcb with those gigantic chips for real ? unless you wanted a skateboard on your rig! by other hand who cares as long work as intended! that all that matters !

Isn't that what the 4870x2 is? How big of a difference for instance is a 4870 in crossfire vs. a 4870x2?

[Blacky]

Isn't that what the 4870x2 is? How big of a difference for instance is a 4870 in crossfire vs. a 4870x2?

well that depends, in terms of performance 1gb 4870 on xfire and 4870 x2 performance is very close but x2 wins on most of reviews, but remember this card (GTX 295) its a different story is a mixed bag of GTX280 and GTX260 so we can't easily predict the performance since its a different chip from what nvidia is offering right now. (a 448-bit chip with 240 SP's)

By other hand again, most of the people knew from start (including me) that it was going to be a sandwich solution from the start ( a yummy one indeed) ATi chips are way smaller than nvidia GT200 and look how big the ATi is, and compared it with a single GTX280 which is almost the same size, so really it was posible to make a single pcb card with 2 GT200 chips? even with the 55nm reduction I still don't see it posible, I could be wrong tho

[Glow9]

By other hand again, most of the people knew from start (including me) that it was going to be a sandwich solution from the start ( a yummy one indeed) ATi chips are way smaller than nvidia GT200 and look how big the ATi is, and compared it with a single GTX280 which is almost the same size, so really it was posible to make a single pcb card with 2 GT200 chips? even with the 55nm reduction I still don't see it posible, I could be wrong tho

I think I'm confused with the fact that the 4870x2 is 55nm and fits 2 just fine. But Nvidias 55nm chips are too big? eh? I'm confused

[Loque]

Does it include the barbeque grill or its an extra ? :p

Is micro stuttering finally fixed on this one ?

[BulldogPO]

Woohoo! I want this card NOW! How loud and hot it might be..

[Sly Fox]

**Edit** I was mistaken, the article has a typo apparently.


Displayport

Should have gone with HDMI, even if it comes with DVI to HDMI converters. Displayport is just garbage.

[jasonelmore]

Displayport

Should have gone with HDMI, even if it comes with DVI to HDMI converters. Displayport is just garbage.

It has a HDMI.. look at the freakin picture!

[Stevethegreat]

It has a HDMI.. look at the freakin picture!

Nah, it's a display port. A more pretty version of DVI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_port

[Sly Fox]

Nah, it's a display port. A more pretty version of DVI: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_port

This.

[Sr7]

This.

http://www.hothardware.com/articleim...2/small_15.jpg

Looks like HDMI to me..

[eric66]

thats one fugly card there they didn't even try to add something like plx sli bridges are all over the place lol still wonder what will be performance of this hybrid card

[BulldogPO]

Yep. HDMI is way to go, not DisplayPort.

[Jimmer411]

Yep. HDMI is way to go, not DisplayPort.

If they every finalize the standard