GeForce GTX295 Card Exposed

[Sly Fox]

\o/ @ the "It's HDMI! vs. "No, it's DisplayPort!".

The connector on the card is clearly HDMI as both edges on the connector are sloped.

That's a very easy thing to say if you look at the picture first.

I already said I didn't look at it until now, dunno what more to say.

[Stevethegreat]

\o/ @ the "It's HDMI! vs. "No, it's DisplayPort!".

The connector on the card is clearly HDMI as both edges on the connector are sloped.

Indeed, I'm sorry to misdirect the rest of you people, if you look @ the picture it's clearly an HDMI port...

[Glow9]

So essentially this is one GTX 260 55nm ontop of another, SLIed and sharing cooling?

[nosboost300]

^^^^

sounds about right... only.. from what i've read it will use 240sp's instead of the 216... which is weird?

[LiquidReactor]

Wait a minute, if this is just two 260s sandwiched together why do tech sites report 2 x 240 shaders?

[jasonelmore]

It's two vanilla 280's sandwitched togather. I can't wait to get one of these babies. I read somewhere that this card will use 275 watts on full load. and thats taking into account that they have 55nm process

[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

[jasonelmore]

There probably will be a 3 slot version. Zotac does a lot of there stuff independently and i'd say they'd be the one's to do it.

[X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE]

It's two vanilla 280's sandwitched togather. I can't wait to get one of these babies. I read somewhere that this card will use 275 watts on full load. and thats taking into account that they have 55nm process

Its 2 x 260 with 240sp each. so it is 2 260's with the 280's sp count.

[mrcape]

i hope it will work with Vince's slim pots

Ditto. Pop Tek9 slim in that woohoo!

[Monstru]

Bwhahahahaha......taaaaaasty sandwich

[nosboost300]

so quad sli will need 1200 watts with a fully loaded overclocked computer?!?! WTF

[Salvador]

*Very much too late *

[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?

[DragoonXX]

hm, if the GTX 295 is being shown off...then whats the possibilities that the 55nm refresh is due soon (yes, I have seen those pics of a GTX260 thats got ram on the front only)

[jasonelmore]

Its 2 x 260 with 240sp each. so it is 2 260's with the 280's sp count.

So it's basicly 2 280s sandwitched togather with 1.8 GB or RAM instead of 2.0?

Correct me if i'm wrong but the only difference between a GTX 280 and a GTX 260 are the SP (192 or 216 vs 240) and Memory.

[trinibwoy]

What's wrong with the sandwich design? IIRC it's actually better for cooling (unless you want to change the stock cooler). Don't think AMD's single PCB approach with the X2 brought any tangible benefits. And in terms of power consumption why will it be much more than the X2 if any?

I think all these multi-gpu cards are for the birds but I don't see one approach proving superior in any way so far.

[jasonelmore]

I'm just wondering if these things will SLI with another Regular GTX 280. From the pic above I dont see a bridge that is vacant, but then again it's showing the wrong side of the card. Can the 9800GX2's SLI with a single 9800GTX+?

[nosboost300]

don't you mean 8800gts??

and i highly doubt this will sli with anything gtx200 related.... cuz i'm pretty sure the 9800gx2 did not

and correct me if i'm wrong.. but 1 card should consume around 500 watts right??? quad sli is gonna take 1kw?!... that is just absurd!

[noinimod]

don't you mean 8800gts??

and i highly doubt this will sli with anything gtx200 related.... cuz i'm pretty sure the 9800gx2 did not

and correct me if i'm wrong.. but 1 card should consume around 500 watts right??? quad sli is gonna take 1kw?!... that is just absurd!

i sure hope it will not be 500w.. that's way too high

[nosboost300]

i read somewhere in this thread like 260x2 for the watt usage.. that just plain makes no sense to me?!

quoted from expreview it was
tdp<300 watts... is that for the combined gpu.. or per gpu?!

[jasonelmore]

Well noone knows how much power these new 55nm GPU's use but from what i hear the power saved via the new chip is great. I'd say it's going to be around 300 watt per 295.

[onethreehill]

So it's basicly 2 280s sandwitched togather with 1.8 GB or RAM instead of 2.0?

Correct me if i'm wrong but the only difference between a GTX 280 and a GTX 260 are the SP (192 or 216 vs 240) and Memory.

GTX280 - 512-bit 1GB
GTX260 - 448-bit 896MB
It's more like 2 x GTX260 with 240SP

[jasonelmore]

GTX280 - 512-bit 1GB
GTX260 - 448-bit 896MB
It's more like 2 x GTX260 with 240SP

sound reasonable.. we'll never know until CES however. Hopefully they will give us something there.

[nosboost300]

well lets hope its around 300 watts per card... because i would love to give quad sli a try