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.

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56 Comments on GeForce GTX 295 Preview Suggests Aggressive Pricing

#51
Wile E
Power User
Am I the only person around here that doesn't care how a component looks, AT ALL? lol
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#52
Binge
Overclocking Surrealism
Wile EAm I the only person around here that doesn't care how a component looks, AT ALL? lol
<3 :D
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#53
a_ump
haha nope, i'm pretty care free on looks, beside a computer tower/case of course. as long as it's priced right then idk what it looks like :nutkick:
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#54
newtekie1
Semi-Retired Folder
Wile EAm I the only person around here that doesn't care how a component looks, AT ALL? lol
A computer component is a computer component, they all look good to me. :) A bunch of fancey stickers don't make a damn bit of difference to me, since they don't make the component perform any better.


The only thing I sometimes think about is the case, but even then, if I'm on any kind of budget, I pick the cheapest case possible and put as much money as possible inside the computer.
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#55
DarkMatter
Wile EAm I the only person around here that doesn't care how a component looks, AT ALL? lol
Of course not. lol.

But I do have to say that I like how Nvidia cards look lately. Much more than I do Ati cards look, red and with flames, etc. I always found decoring with flames quite tasteless. Matrix, Alien FTW!! :rockout:
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#56
Haytch
Analog_MannerI dunno, Nvidia can do better.

I think a dual 280 would be better than a dual 260. I wonder if the reason they used two 260's is because they can't use 280. Possibly heat/power problems or something?
I think its more the case of allowing themselves to market another product later down the track. Nvidia since the G80 have released their highest performing card prior to the less performing cards. This could be a turnaround to the Ati trend where they release their shitty cards first.

I was extremely happy with the 9800GX2 after a few driver updates and look forward to another good experience with the GTX295. As for the price . . . Where were all these complainers when i picked up my 8800GTX for $1500au back in September/October 2k6.
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