Some people just can't keep a secret it seems, with sites leaking details and specs about NVIDIA's upcoming GTX295 VGA card all over the shop.
Some people just can't keep a secret it seems, with sites leaking details and specs about NVIDIA's upcoming GTX295 VGA card all over the shop.
The graphics firm's latest offering will boast two 55nm GT200 GPUs linked via internal SLI, count 480 (240 x 2) stream processors, have a memory bus width of 896 bits (448 bits x 2) and a memory size of 1792MB DDR3 (896MB x 2).
It also won't be adopting GDDR5, and will be guzzling as much as 289W which, if true, is a preposterously large amount. But then the Green Goblin has never really been eco-green.
A photo on VR-Zone shows what it claims is a picture of the GTX295 with two DVI ports, one Display Port and 8+6 pins for the power connectors. Chinese site Expreview has one too, just the other way up.
NVIDIA is holding back in order to launch the new card on the opening day of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Vegas, starting January 8th.
To date there haven't been any leaks about pricing, but the general consensus appears to be that the Green Team will be doing its utmost to remain competitive against AMD's 4870X2 card.
Competitive price wise or not, if the specs hold true, the GTX295 will pack quite the performance punch, possibly just enough of one to knock AMD off its currently superior perch. Just a question of how long that lead might last.