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?
lol eventually I suppose if they come out with a set of 4 42" pc monitors with a resolution of 5120x3200. For a total of 15360x3200. Assuming it's powerful enough. Taking up every x16 slot I hope it is.
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!
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!
It's actually 384bit wide or something like that (and hence why you don't see the nice memory amounts like 512MB, 1GB on nvidia's latest cards anymore)
ahh why did they have to be cheap and put in a display port and not an hdmi? with the dvi-hdmi converter you lose the audio transmission forcing you to connect the s/pdif. I kinda would expect that on any graphics card over 500 dollars by now
