newtekie1Only 216SPs per core? Seems like nVidia is holding back to me, or they couldn't manage to cool the thing with the full 240.

spearman914What do u expect? It's the same core technology.

Analog_MannerBy calling it the GTX 295, should we expect it to be 5.3% faster than a GTX 280? Or about as good as two GTX 260's in SLI?

spearman9142 GTX 260 will pwn the 295 itself actually. And for the math, we need some benchies first.

DarkrealmsI think if they at least do a decent job at it, it should beat the 4870x2 by a decent margin. Again this is if the do at least a decent job with their drivers. Although the 9800x2 is still doing fairly well so maybe . . .

I'm all for it, it brings my GTX260 prices down : )

The only real mistake I can see (other than drivers) will be price. If they put this card over $500 it won't do well at all. If they don't have it down below $450 in 2-3 months after launch I think people will be mad.

Cooling, Nvidia has done alright with.
OCing, Nvidia has done well with.
One GTX260 is still a very formidable card. And prices aren't bad right now (not great but not bad).

SteelSixScaling will be what makes one better than the other by decent margins. Still debated by some, but it's evident which offers better scaling...

btarunrNVIDIA would be giving its flagship consumer graphics processor, the G200 a refresh using the newer 55nm silicon fabrication process. With this, the company plans to carve out new SKUs taking the benefit of enhanced thermal and electrical properties of the updated core. In the pipeline, is a dual-GPU card based on two GeForce GTX 260 GPUs.

Expreview learned that the new graphics card is to be named GeForce GTX 295. NVIDIA is creating the card to regain the performance crown from ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, the fastest single graphics card in the market. The card will sport two G200b cores in the 216 SP configuration, although not much is known about the memory configuration and clock speeds, at this point in time. The card has already passed design phase and is awaiting trial production and testing. It is expected to be released in January 2009.

Source: Expreview

lilkidunowow, i would love to see prices far. because when that dose happen, the 9800 GTX+'s will be even cheaper, and i will probbly, finnal tri-SLI my system... that would be nice, if anything it would knock donw the price of the asic 260 to a nice price to where i can use my EVGA step up program!!!! so rock out to the release of this card!