Thursday, December 18th 2008
GeForce GTX 295 Preview Suggests Aggressive Pricing
The newest lineup of high-end graphics accelerators by NVIDIA includes the dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295. The accelerator features two 55nm G200b GPUs featuring 240 stream processors each, along with a memory sub-system of 896 MB across a 448-bit wide GDDR3 memory bus per GPU. The reference clock speeds are 576 MHz (core), 1242 MHz (shader) and 999 MHz, 1998 MHz DDR (memory).
Guru3D previewed the accelerator. While the notion that this will be the fastest accelerator only gains ground with the preview, the most interesting part of it was in the first page: the street price. The preview suggests a street price of US $499. That's $50 less than the $549 the Radeon HD 4870 X2 asked for, at launch. This indicates that NVIDIA will carry forward its aggressive pricing to counter ATI.
Image Courtesy: Guru3D
Guru3D previewed the accelerator. While the notion that this will be the fastest accelerator only gains ground with the preview, the most interesting part of it was in the first page: the street price. The preview suggests a street price of US $499. That's $50 less than the $549 the Radeon HD 4870 X2 asked for, at launch. This indicates that NVIDIA will carry forward its aggressive pricing to counter ATI.
56 Comments on GeForce GTX 295 Preview Suggests Aggressive Pricing
People going for this will be fence sitting between this and 2x 206b GTX260 revised in SLI. To make economic sense, it needs to be the same price or cheaper than 2x current GTX260 prices.
I gotta admit tho.. That 295 looks AWESOME.
Even still, its set to be a monster - and drive down prices even more, good for all us budget enthusiasts :D
@lemonadesoda
About the lowest frames, is it too early in the thread to play the "pre-release drivers" card? :p
EDIT: Oh and how is that it's going to be cheaper? About the same price as the competition, being faster, seems about right IMO.
Some people blame the developers. Some people blame Nvidia for funding software companies to build their game engine for stability on the Nvidia offerings. In the end its the benchmarks of actual games that matter. Not specs that never are fully taken advantage of.
Either way -- wonderful price. 4870X2's are overpriced these days, anyway. If this helps drive the price down, good.
My gtx 280's OC'ed have not crashed yet.
Maybe I just have bad luck with ATi but the 4850 gets choppy/frame loss with blurays aswell while using the 4850 512mb. The 8800gt I had before it, did it perfectly. So what I am saying is I am tired of all the trouble I have had with ATi cards lately. I try the latest drivers and even beta drivers and it still has issues. My friend's 4870 crashes with fallout 3 just the same but his does fine with bluray playback though.
Maybe this chart is old, but it looks like the 9600 GT is the champ in performance/price:confused: