NVIDIA GTX295 Preview/Review

[mascaras]

Hi

can you post all the Previews in 1st Post ??


http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...4&postcount=66

[ap4lifetn]

so what now, AMD enables sideport?

[ChinStrap]

I love when new GPU previews come out. Free entertainment baby. I absolutely LOVE how worked up some of you people get.

[Mr.BSEL]

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6...viewed/?page=9

Based on this review, it seems that the gtx295 is the card to get if you own core i7.

[Klarko]

Well looks extremely biased, besides the guru review.

Prediction: ATI enables sideport, and cuts price of X2.

[Linchpin]

If sideport actually provided any meaningful gains it would've been enabled from the start.

[Monkeywoman]

that guru3d review is crazy! if the 295 had more mem, like a solid 1gig for each core, it would pwn at higher rez. overall, that's one fast card.

[zerazax]

As a 2560 x 1600 gamer, seeing it die with AA at that res vs. the 4870X2 is dissapointing. Looks like i'll be keeping my 4870x2 a bit longer

[Circaflex]

dang i was gonna snag a 4870x2 but looks like ill order this instead!

[WhiskeyAlpha]

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6...viewed/?page=9

Based on this review, it seems that the gtx295 is the card to get if you own core i7.

Thanks for this

What was refreshing here was to see a good old 8800Ultra slugging it out and suprisingly not falling that far behind the GTX 260-216.

Considering the volt mod and silly clocks my 8800GTX has been happily running at for the last year or so, I think I'm gonna hold out for the ATi/Nvidia next gen before jumping.

Judging by those benchmarks, I reckon I must be somewhere around stock GTX 260 performance, which'll do me for the time being

[Carfax]

When will they review the new single core cards?

[Klarko]

Why does it not have 1 full gig like the X2 again?

[Chad Boga]

the 1 million question for reviewers:

- Does the GTX 295 joins the Microstuttering club?

I would like to know the answer to this too.

Who is the better microstutterer, 4870x2 or GTX295?

[Monkeywoman]

4870x2 in Canada is 700 bucks...so this thing should bring it down to 499 if not lower...riight? i have to get rid of my 1950!

[Chad Boga]

4870x2 in Canada is 700 bucks...so this thing should bring it down to 499 if not lower...riight? i have to get rid of my 1950!

I very much doubt you will see that kind of a price reduction or even half of that much.

[Silver Bullet]

4870x2 in Canada is 700 bucks...so this thing should bring it down to 499 if not lower...riight? i have to get rid of my 1950!

$560 CND .... link: price canada

I suspect with the 295 launch in Jan it drop to maybe $500 ish .. cause with 499US is around $600CND.

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

When will they review the new single core cards?

This is what I want to see. I don't want an SLI card. Microstutter, driver support, etc is always a problem from past history (9800gx2, 7950gx2). How does the gtx265/285 compare?

I might just be keeping my gtx260 if these cards don't improve 10%+.

[jt1]

I'm wondering what will be the fastest setup for folding: Triple GTX295 OC'd or Quad GTX285 OC'd. It doesn't seem like the GTX295 will have much OC headroom, but it'd be difficult for the 285's overcome the shader count. A more general question is, one GTX295 equals how many GTX285's?

[Caveman787]

Considering it doesnt exist we don't know yet....

Maybe comparing it to 280's since they do would work a little better.

[jasonelmore]

I'm wondering what will be the fastest setup for folding: Triple GTX295 OC'd or Quad GTX285 OC'd. It doesn't seem like the GTX295 will have much OC headroom, but it'd be difficult for the 285's overcome the shader count. A more general question is, one GTX295 equals how many GTX285's?

i'm thinkin 1 and a half. Tri 285 setup should be comparable to quad Sli with the 295. i'd have to give the crown to the 295's tho

[Mr.BSEL]

I'm wondering what will be the fastest setup for folding: Triple GTX295 OC'd or Quad GTX285 OC'd. It doesn't seem like the GTX295 will have much OC headroom, but it'd be difficult for the 285's overcome the shader count. A more general question is, one GTX295 equals how many GTX285's?

Firingsquad overclocked the gtx295 pretty well.

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...nce/page13.asp

[WhiskeyAlpha]

Core i7 965 Extreme @ 3.6GHz
3*2048MB Transcend DDR3 - 24-8-8-8-1T 1333MHz
Asus Rampage II Extreme
1x Radeon, 1x GeForce
Gigabyte Odin 1200W
GeForce 180.88, Catalyst 8.12
Vista Ultimate 32-bit

OBR, maybe it's just a typo but it seems a little odd that you are using 6GB DDR3 with a 32bit (and hence 4GB limited) operating system for your benchmarking. Once you subtract the GPU memory from the 4GB aren't you left with a fairly small amount of memory (relatively speaking)?

[gallag]

looks like a monster.

[kemo]

OBR, maybe it's just a typo but it seems a little odd that you are using 6GB DDR3 with a 32bit (and hence 4GB limited) operating system for your benchmarking. Once you subtract the GPU memory from the 4GB aren't you left with a fairly small amount of memory (relatively speaking)?

He should be getting a minimum of 2.7GB but with SP1 he might see more than than but i don't think that it will be greater than 3.5GB and in both cases it is good enough for all the reviewed games including GTA which takes 1.75GB of my system

[OBR]

OBR, maybe it's just a typo but it seems a little odd that you are using 6GB DDR3 with a 32bit (and hence 4GB limited) operating system for your benchmarking. Once you subtract the GPU memory from the 4GB aren't you left with a fairly small amount of memory (relatively speaking)?

yes, i know my system is using only 3GB, but i have my 20 testing games on 32bit vista }which i am using on every test machines), in normal conditions i have on that machine 64bit vista ...