January 9th, 2009
PCGH GeForce GTX 295 – NVIDIA dual GPU card previewed
PC Games Hardware is among the few testers who can already check the GeForce GTX 295 – NVIDIA’s new dual GPU card, based on two 55 nm GT200b chips. Furthermore it is the first NVIDIA gaming card that exceeds the limit of one TFLOPS – due to two GPUs each of which has access to 240 Shader ALUs, 80 texture units and 28 ROPS with a 448 Bit memory interface.The GeForce 295 GTX is supposed to reclaim the title of the fastest single graphics card for NVIDIA, after AMD had scored unexpected success with the HD 4800 series and was able to deliver the up to now fastest single graphics card in form of the dual GPU model HD 4870 X2. We can’t tell when the GTX 295 will become officially available at the moment, but we suppose a date around mid-January 2009. A price between 449 to 479 Euros could be realistic for the NVIDIA card, but the final price will probably depend on the exchange rate of the dollar.
