bit-tech News: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 295 1792MB & Quad SLI

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Hi all,

 

We have just published a review of *Nvidia's GeForce GTX 295 1792MB &

Quad SLI* - if you could post a link on your site that would be very

much appreciated.

 

*Link:*

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2009/01/08/nvidia-geforce-gtx-295-quad-sli-review/1

 

 

*Picture:*

http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2009/01/nvidia-geforce-gtx-295-quad-sli-review/fp_img.jpg

 

 

*Quote:

*/Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 295 retakes the title of the fastest graphics

card in the world, but it doesn’t do it in the emphatic fashion that

many were hoping for. We didn’t expect Nvidia to leave the Radeon HD

4870 X2 for dead and it hasn’t done that, but what it has done is

deliver higher performance in most titles. There are, of course, titles

where performance between the two is very close, but the big swings go

in Nvidia’s favour.

 

There are still some issues with the Quad SLI drivers to iron out, and

what we’ve learned today is that, for the most part, there is no need

for more than two GPUs to play / /any of today’s games at decent

resolutions. The return on investment diminishes quite spectacularly

when you go beyond a couple of GPUs because today’s games just aren’t

intensive enough for there to be clear advantages, but it’s nevertheless

impressive to see a game maxed out at 2,560 x 1,600 running into the

engine’s frame rate cap.

 

Ultimately, it’s going to come down to pricing – if there is a gulf

between the Radeon HD 4870 X2 and GeForce GTX 295, the Radeon gets our

nod, but if Nvidia’s partners manage to hit the prices we’re being

quoted, we’d get the GTX 295 because of its inherent performance

advantage in all but a few scenarios./

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*Cheers guys!

 

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net