Showing posts with label Hardware. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hardware. Show all posts

Sunday, December 21, 2008

GeForce GTX 295 | Nvidia GeForce GTX 295

Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 - Nvidia new dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295 at CES on January 8, 2008. The GeForce GTX 295 will be the first card to use an updated GT200 GPU built using a 55nm manufacturing process. The card will have two GT200 GPUs for a total of 480 processing cores, twice as many cores as Nvidia's flagship single-GPU card, the GeForce GTX 280.



The new GPUs will have a 576 MHz core clock and a 1242 MHz shader clock. That's slightly slower than the GTX 280's 602 MHz core and 1296 MHz shader clocks, but the GTX 295 still wins in the GPU quantity column. The card will also have 1,792 MB of onboard GDDR3 memory clocked at 1,998 MHz.



The dual-slot cards will come with HDMI and two dual-link DVI outputs. The new chips are more power efficient, but two of them will still draw up to 289W according to Nvidia. Plan on picking up a 1kW+ if you plan on putting two of these together for Quad SLI.

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Monster NVIDIA GTX 295 caught on camera

Those sneaky folks over at VR-Zone have caught a snap of NVIDIA’s upcoming monster graphics card, the GTX 295.

The GTX 295 is basically two GTX 260 cards slapped together and linked via an internal SLI bridge. These GPUs are the newer 55nm flavor as opposed to the 65nm versions. Thanks to the die shrink, this monster card has a TDP of 290W. That’s really high, but better remember that’s for the whole card complete with two GPUs. A single 65nm GTX 260 GPU had a TDP of roughly 235W.

This card will also feature a total of 480 stream processors. Considering that the original GTX 260 had 216 stream processors either NVIDIA have managed to squeeze out more stream processors with the die shrink, or this is a GTX 260/GTX 280 hybrid.

Oh, and you’ll also get 1,792MB of GDDR3 memory, double what’s on the GTX 260, and two DVI ports, along with a DisplayPort.

It’ll be interesting to see if ATI/AMD come out with something to counter this at CES in January.

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