NVIDIA GTX295 Preview/Review

[Tonucci]

gtx 295 very dissapointing for me considering only slightly better than 4870x2 not much in it and ati card been out a long while. oh well... will wait bit longer dont see point upgrading from gtx260-216 to this for the extra cash not worth it.

Well at least for me, it performs as expected....

Its just 2x gtx280/260 mixture cores, shrunken, in one card... No mystery here, besides the weird mixture lol, but the performance can be easily estimated to what it is... Between gtx260 216 sli and gtx280 sli.

Its arguably a lil late to the party (my guess is manufacturing process delay, needed for thermal/cost reasons), but i disagree its just slightly better than the 4870x2...imo the difference is substantial (maybe not enough to warrant an upgrade tho). In the past months, drivers releases from both companies made alot of differences, so lets judge based on actual drivers.

Theres still Christmas sales, and all those who doesnt have fast cards yet...not all is lost for this card . It will be awhile untill its dethroned.

Remember that its just low volume sales cutting edge parts... Its more about having the crown than anything, for name recognition. Financially speaking its not that meaningful on its own... but helps totals sales indirectly for nvidia being recognized as "number one".