GeForce GTX295 Card Exposed

[Blacky]

So this still has the ridiculous hole in the PCB? I can't really tell from the first picture.

I hope not

[Mk]

HAHAH we've got ourselves another OBR!

Comon now i got this info frm this post

Hi, will be anyone from XS on new GFX products (New Dual monster will be included) party at NVIDIAs 12.12 in Munchen?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...08738?t=208738

its not like i have the card or somthing

[RPGWiZaRD]

lol crysis hopefully we will be playing at normal framerate of 60fps lol soon 2 years time

Something tells me Crysis 2 and/or Crysis 3 will be out by then and up the requirements once again.

It ain't Crysis if it doesn't require a computer from at least 2 years into the future to run >60 FPS.

[LiquidReactor]

we'll still be playing crysis in 2 years?

Dont go there, or I maximum strength slap you

[VOID WARRANTY]

yea right...get with times people Gta 4 is the new benchmark you need core i7 on a phase change just to get 65 frames ...

[initialised]

It would actually probably be cheaper and cooler to make a dual GPU single board, I am guessing they went with dual PCB because of the size of the GTX chip. Technological wise, disappointed they went with the dual PCB. I imagine it will trap more heat and increase latencies slightly, however as other have said performance talks. It could be the ugly step-child, but if it can bench press 500 lbs, who cares.

GTX260 216 = 4870 1GB so it follows that GX200 = 4870x2, nVidia has always done dual PCB so why should this generation be any different?

[VOID WARRANTY]

i really dont see any real problem with this card...its 2 gtx260,s in sli with out needing an nvidia chipset... its not like any one is going to make you buy it

[Luka_Aveiro]

i really dont see any real problem with this card...its 2 gtx260,s in sli with out needing an nvidia chipset... its not like any one is going to make you buy it

X2... I couldn't care less about this card... I am much more interested at knowing the new prices from GT200b single gpu cards. I am very interested in either a GTX 265 or a GTX285, depending on their price/performance ratio.

[dan7777]

dont sound like its guna be a big heap in performance than a gtx 280 260 realy in my opinion sli aint worth it 2 much money 4 bit of a gain....

[JoeBar]

2 pcb design? Thanks but no thanks...

[Glow9]

I would think nvidia would save money on using some parts from the GX2?.
Maybe would translate to a cheaper costing card for consumers

Yeah Nvidia is well known for throwing consumers a bone.

[Cliff Burton]

lolsandwich

[NeVeRLiFt]

If this price matches the 4870x2 people will want it.
On the other hand... it will most likely be over priced and nVidia will just do with it like they did with the 9800 gx2 and it go the way of the dodo.

[clayton]

"Give me back my SandVich™!"

I guess we all know who the next nVIDIA mascot is.

[ToTTenTranz]

Just a guess, don´t take it to serious
If it don´t happen it Christmas and Santa Claus fault

Anyway Sideport is there waiting to be used. My theory is that ATI is keeping it unused, and bring a magical boost by January time.
It´s very unusual they have that feature and don´t use it.... I remember ATI talked that there will be 3 phases in HD 4800 and 2 of them where already rolled out, but they never talked about phase number 3. Maybe Sideport, or they simply forget it.

I heard that sometimes the manufacturers put some logic in the chip that they'll never use, just to study how it behaves on mass-production.
For example, I read somewhere that all the Geforce FX line had an experimental SLI logic in them.

As far as I know, using Sideport on HD4870X2 won't make a difference unless that card turns out being capable of using a shared memory pool for both GPUs. The presence of SidePort in R700 could be, as I told above, an experimental feature for the shared memory pool in R800. I also heard it could eventually be used for GPGPU apps in the future, but not for gaming (the same way the GT200 has a lot of stuff that only turns on for CUDA).

[LiquidReactor]

yea right...get with times people Gta 4 is the new benchmark you need core i7 on a phase change just to get 65 frames ...

Which unlike Crysis is actually poorly optimized and comes nowhere near Crysis level of graphics.

[Jimmer411]

Yep. HDMI is way to go, not DisplayPort.

If they every finalize the standard

[mascaras]

55nm GTX285 Climbs to Head of Single-GPU Cards

We have looked into 55nm GeForce GTX260 VGA Card, now let’s turn to 55nm GTX280. It features brand-new PCB design and enhanced default frequency. Besides, it’s been given a new brand – GeForce GTX285.






Adopting P891 as reference design, GeForce GTX285 remains 10.5” length just as GTX280. And its cooler is dual-slot designed with dual DVI and S-Video output. The graphic memory carries on 1GB GDDR3, and its stream processors is 240. The frequency of GeForce GTX285 remains to be confirmed, but its performance can get up to 110% of GTX280.

We can regard GeForce GTX285 as GTX280 Overclocking Edition with less power consumption. GeForce GTX280’s Maximum Graphics Card Power is 236W, and it requires a 6-pin and a 8-pin PEG Power Connectors. However, GeForce GTX285’s power consumption has been reduced to 183W with only 2 6-pin PEG power connectors needed.

GeForce GTX285 with highest clock and lowest power consumption is undoubtedly the most powerful card in single-GPU cards, while new GeForce GTX260 arouses the most attention in middle and high-end cards’ price war. Dual-GPU GeForce GTX295 is expected to regain the crown of performance. All of these will happen in January 2009.

After unveiling details of NVIDIA new-line products, we will follow some news about AMD’s plan to fight back, such as RV775XT. (Special thanks to one of our readers who provides information)


http://en.expreview.com/2008/12/11/5...gpu-cards.html

regards

[RPGWiZaRD]

Wonder if those power draw figures really are accurate, if so then that's a very nice decrease.

[zlojack]

Tri-SLI GTX 285 here I come. I wonder if they will run cool enough that I can run them off of a 120.2 rad.

[VIctorj]

Haha, and you guys think that 6gpus are going to work toghether...not gonna happen any time soon. (I hope it does tho)

[zlojack]

Haha, and you guys think that 6gpus are going to work toghether...not gonna happen any time soon. (I hope it does tho)

tri-SLI GTX 285 not 295

The GTX 295 will probably only allow for SLI

[largon]

GeForce GTX285’s power consumption has been reduced to 183W

Eh?
GTX280 consumes 178W at peaks.

[noinimod]

Eh?
GTX280 consumes 178W at peaks.

I don't know.. but almost every power consumption rating i've seen has had some variance across multiple reviews.

On a side note, looking at the recent anandtech coverage of the rv770 development process.. i wonder how long it'll take for nvidia's team to come up with the single card monster that will destroy the rv770.

[VOID WARRANTY]

this competition between ati and nvidia is just giving us better cards and cheaper prices..awsome i love it