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NVIDIA is preparing the GeForce GTX 295 and GTX 285 cards for launch on January 8th at CES 2009. According to the official data VR-Zone has seen, GeForce GTX 295 card has dual 55nm GT200 GPUs and 1792MB GDDR3 memories on 896-bit memory interface. The rest of the specs like number of shader processors and clocks speeds are listed as TBA. As for GeForce GTX 285, it is a replacement for the current GeForce GTX 280 card with a 55nm GT200 GPU with higher clocks. Therefore, GeForce GTX 280 cards will reach EOL in a month time. As for GeForce GTX 260, Nvidia has released design kits to the card makers and you should be seeing some self-designed cards in Q1 next year. The GeForce GTX 295 is based on the sandwich design again like the 9800GX2 with two 55nm GT200 GPUs. As you can see, there are 2 DVI and 1 Display Port. As for the power connectors, it uses 8+6 pins so that gives you a clue how much power this card needs. The pricing is yet to be disclosed but card makers are speculating that Nvidia will price it competitively against AMD 4870X2 card this time.

vicaphit wrote:Do we even need 1792MB of video memory?

martini161 wrote:what i still dont get is why cant nvidia be like normal people and use memory sizes that are powers of two?

Prizy wrote:im guessing the reason they havnt gone to GDDR5 is because plain and simple, they dont need to.
ATI cards are using a 256bit wide bus, so they have to crank up the memory speed.
NVIDIA are using 512bit wide bus so GDDR3 is doing the job, but ill say..when they do decide to jump on the GDDR5 boat, it will be awesome!