bit-tech News: First Look: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 295 graphics card

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Hi all,

 

We have just published a first look at *Nvidia's GeForce GTX 295

graphics card*. If you could post a link on your site that would be very

much appreciated.

 

*Link:*

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/12/18/first-look-nvidia-geforce-gtx-295-1792mb/1

 

 

*Picture:*

http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/12/first-look-nvidia-geforce-gtx-295-1792mb/fp_img.jpg

 

 

*Quote:

*/We've only had a short time with Nvidia's GeForce GTX 295, but it

looks set to take the performance crown from the Radeon HD 4870 X2.

However, that performance crown won't be held in a dominant manner like

we witnessed back in August when AMD launched its dual-GPU monster.

 

There are some early driver issues we've seen here though and, from the

conversations we've had with Nvidia, there is still some work to be done

on the driver side before they're ready for the January 8th launch.

 

Our biggest disappointment in the testing we've done so far though is

how the card performs at higher resolutions with AA enabled - there

//are// scenarios like the one we've shown you here in Fallout 3 where

the card just runs out of steam at 2,560 x 1.600 with 8xAA.

 

This doesn't happen with the Radeon HD 4870 X2 and we believe a lot of

this is down to the decision to launch with a lower than expected memory

speed, but it does leave room for partners to release cards with memory

speeds above 2,300MHz in the future. At that speed, some of the GTX

295's memory bandwidth restrictions should be alleviated, but they will

not disappear completely.

/*

 

*Cheers guys!

 

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net