Quote Originally Posted by Solus Corvus View Post
You know what I mean, of course 10 billion 1 mhz transistors wouldn't be very hard to cool.

A TDP near the GTX285 would be very much of an issue. How many NV cards are on the market with 2 full speed, not cut down GTX285 cores, even now? 1000? To make the standard 295 they had to cut the number of shaders and the speed. To make the 395 they will probably have to make even deeper cuts to be able to fit it in the power/TDP envelope.
Whackypedia has you not far off the transistor count...

The initial model in the series to be released will use the GT300 chip, a very large chip that is heavily modified of G92 GPU(Up to nine billion transistors in quad core version) manufactured by TSMC in a 55-nanometer process. Versions will be available with 1.5GB, 3GB or 6GB of memory, attached to six separate 64-bit GDDR4 memory controllers on the chip.


Also the GTX295 only had lowered clocks & 448bit Memory Bus instead of 512bit. It has the full 240 shaders on each chip.