NVIDIA will release its next high-end graphics card at CES in Las Vegas on January 8th and the company has given us the opportunity to give bit-tech’s readers a sneak peek at how the GeForce GTX 295 will perform. However, because the card is not available on the market yet, and won’t be until January 8th at the earliest, the company has asked us to adhere to a number of restrictions.

Rather than hide away from these, we decided that it would be best to put them out in the open so that you can understand why we haven’t done a full-blown performance disclosure on the card. This is what we were asked to agree to before publication:

• Top 5 Games benchmarks only
• Plus one other title of their choosing
• No other benchmarks period
• No acoustic measurements
• No power measurements
• No PhysX testing or benchmarks

When we asked why we weren’t given free reign with the card, NVIDIA said that the drivers we’ve used for testing the card are not final and the hardware is a very early engineering sample. The clock speeds are final though and the hardware is unlikely to change a great deal at this stage.

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