NVIDIA GTX295 Preview/Review

[Stukov]

i can only see 2 cards for 560$, out of nine
average is 526$

this review is clearly biased, waiting for better...

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.

[JohnZS]

the GTX 295 looks pretty powerful, I'm impressed
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

[Macadamia]

tho I finally see the whole card and admit I...

I predicted that spot on

[Stukov]

the GTX 295 looks pretty powerful, I'm impressed
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.

[JohnZS]

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

[eric66]

I agree the specifications of testing were a joke... HZ doesn't have enough money for a cheap X58 and a 920i at least? oh c'mon...


tho I finally see the whole card and admit I...

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[Helmore]

i can only see 2 cards for 560$, out of nine on newegg
average is 526$

this review is clearly biased, waiting for better...

the card will get the performance crown in most games, but not with a so big margin as shown in this review

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.

[eric66]

there is no 265 as far as i remember only 285

[Stukov]

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-295-preview/7

[Blacky]

there is no 265 as far as i remember only 285

correct, GTX 260 had a revision already (216) makes no sense to launch another GTX 26x named product!

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

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.

[Stukov]

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.

I posted it above.

[eric66]

ati needs to improve its software that dead space bench is joke what are they thinking i don't know

[Slovnaft]

is it just me or are the gains over 280/260 shy of impressive?

[XS2K]

Damn the performance diference in Crysis Warhead is

[eric66]

its basically gtx 280 sli until 2560x1600 res then it dies :P

[3NZ0]

Damn the performance diference in Crysis Warhead is

Wow, 1792mb of memory isn't enough at 2560x1600.

[eric66]

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

[Mr.BSEL]

Wow, 1792mb of memory isn't enough at 2560x1600.

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.

[Katanai]

is it just me or are the gains over 280/260 shy of impressive?

Yeah, it's probably driver related though. SLI doesn't always work at 100% without a lot of tweaking.

[spoof]

Damn the performance diference in Crysis Warhead is

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.

[3NZ0]

The card only has 896mb of memory because the memory isn't shared for both gpus.

Well done Sherlock, I think we all know this. My point is, the 2gb that the 4870x2 has shows that once again nvidia have cut short the high res ability of their 'GX2' style card by not having enough memory attached to each gpu.

[OBR]

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.

[eric66]

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.

again nvidias favourite top 5 games

[slapmehard]

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.