Nvidia reveals GeForce GTX 295

GeForce GTX 295

In an effort to make self-conscious PC gamers feel even more insecure about their systems, Nvidia has revealed plans to launch a new dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295 at CES on January 8, 2008. The GeForce GTX 295 will be the first card to use an updated GT200 GPU built using a 55nm manufacturing process.

8-pin, 6-pin power connectors

The card will have two GT200 GPUs for a total of 480 processing cores, twice as many cores as Nvidia's flagship single-GPU card, the GeForce GTX 280. The new GPUs will have a 576 MHz core clock and a 1242 MHz shader clock. That's slightly slower than the GTX 280's 602 MHz core and 1296 MHz shader clocks, but the GTX 295 still wins in the GPU quantity column. The card will also have 1,792 MB of onboard GDDR3 memory clocked at 1,998 MHz.

Video outputs

The dual-slot cards will come with HDMI and two dual-link DVI outputs. The new chips are more power efficient, but two of them will still draw up to 289W according to Nvidia. Plan on picking up a 1kW+ if you plan on putting two of these together for Quad SLI.

No word yet on whether or not the card will be able to run Grand Theft Auto IV at max settings.

99 Comments

  • haloshalo

    Posted Mar 8, 2009 8:21 am PT

    i dont want this card my wallet says

  • Stevewins1

    Posted Feb 22, 2009 11:06 am PT

    "...on January 8, 2008."
    >_>

  • NOARA

    Posted Jan 12, 2009 12:56 pm PT

    For all you out there that actually planning to even be taking a quick ook at this, Hear this:
    THERE IS ABSLOUTLY NO REASON FOR BUYING IT!!!! Its not very diffrent from 4870 x2 except for 10% GPU power and a few Cores!!!! Its not Worth 600$ bucks!!!1

  • marentes

    Posted Jan 11, 2009 7:48 pm PT

    i want this card

  • AzNs3nSaT1On

    Posted Jan 9, 2009 12:50 pm PT

    "No word yet on whether or not the card will be able to run Grand Theft Auto IV at max settings" - lol

    Back on topic, I'm happy with my 4870x2. I agree with the users that this card isn't needed. Human eyes can't detect anything over 30fps anyways. so what's the point of running a game in 200fps? in the end it's just a competition to see who's **** is bigger than the others.

  • toledo-rick

    Posted Jan 8, 2009 9:24 am PT

    I am still very happy with my GTX 260 it runs all my games perfect and very smooth why worry about buy any new card if gaming industries are having difficulties trying to keep up wit them (expect Crysis) There really is no use right now for this card but i give it to Nvidia, im still a fan and customer to them

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  • YoZbaNaToR

    Posted Jan 8, 2009 6:38 am PT

    I've also heard that this card is able to SLI another card without the connector (8800GT and newer). They say you can leave an 8800GT (for example) to handle the PhysX, and the GTX 295 handles all the other heavy duty graphics.

  • subzero2010

    Posted Jan 5, 2009 10:22 pm PT

    Nvidia GeForce GTX 295 - Oh My God !!! We Wait All Performance About It ...

    ATI What's New Card In 2009 ? And What A Games We Need To Test It ?

    Excellent Work Nvidia, Good Secrets From ATI Hardware !! Now We Feel Puzzled To Buy Any One Of It

  • anim810

    Posted Jan 5, 2009 5:44 pm PT

    anyone read the review linked by mrgordons?

    looks like this card is on par with the ati4870x2 or whatever...if anyone is noticing it is on par with it now...BEFORE its actually ready for the market! with less RAM, with slower RAM, it still holds up...

    when the driver mature its going to be a significant card imo, with room for improvement on the same platform...

  • g3n3r41xan

    Posted Jan 4, 2009 10:50 pm PT

    I'm gonna wait for single card 40nm.
    My 9800GTX+ will do for now.

  • IMonKI

    Posted Jan 4, 2009 6:26 pm PT

    This sounds awesome but I am happy with my 8800 GT and 9800 GTX

  • Sam_2006

    Posted Jan 4, 2009 10:34 am PT

    No thanks, I'm still happy with my 8800GT

  • MrGordons

    Posted Jan 3, 2009 3:50 pm PT

    http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-295-preview/1

    sorry Mods

  • avatarcj

    Posted Dec 31, 2008 6:52 am PT

    This Video Card will run Grand Theft Auto IV at max settings . Believe it . Impossible is nothing .

  • DarkFadi

    Posted Dec 30, 2008 12:45 am PT

    whats in grand theft auto a video card can't run?

  • FelixTheGreat15

    Posted Dec 29, 2008 9:56 pm PT

    Wow. Technology is so amazing. And this is only the beginning. Look at what we have accomplished in the last 100 years, the future looks bright for humans.

  • dudedude123123

    Posted Dec 28, 2008 7:23 pm PT

    how much do you guys think the price of GTX 280 is gonna drop. to like 300 or something?

  • Wolf-5

    Posted Dec 28, 2008 6:08 pm PT

    Huh.... I can't wait to see some benchmarks for this one against 260 and 280 along with a few older nVidia cards like the 9800 GT or the 8800GTX

  • patrickv

    Posted Dec 28, 2008 4:21 pm PT

    This card is suppose to cost $499 to compete with the Radeon 4870 X2 video card that is of the that same price. When this card is released though you would have to be rich, or stupid to pick it up right away. It is still going to be cheaper to buy two GTX 280s. The price on the other GTX 200 series cards should drop in price.

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  • brianthesnail12

    Posted Dec 27, 2008 9:04 am PT

    this looks awesome,however the launch price will be out of the range of the average gamer,however this also means the gtx260 and gtx280 will drop in price
    the specs are not too bad ,here are the full specs courtesy of "gpu review"
    Manufacturer: nVidia Series: GeForce GTX 200 GPU: GT200b x 2 Release Date: 2009-01-08 Interface: PCI-E 2.0 x16 Core Clock: 576 MHz Shader Clock: 1242 MHz Memory Clock: 999 MHz (1998 DDR) Memory Bandwidth: 223.776 GB/sec FLOPS: 1788.48 GFLOPS Pixel Fill Rate: 32256 MPixels/sec Texture Fill Rate: 92160 MTexels/sec Max Power Draw: 289 W Noise Level: ? Framebuffer: 1792 MB Memory Type: GDDR3 Memory Bus Type: 64x7 (448 bit) DirectX Compliance: 10.0 OpenGL Compliance: 2.1 PS/VS Version: 4.0/4.0 Process: 55 nm Shader Processors: 480 (240) Pipeline Layout: Scalar MADD+MUL Texture Units: 160 (80) Raster Operators 56 (2 -------------------------------------------------
    as you can see there are some significant changes from the gtx280 such as the slower core clock(576mhz) compared to the 602mhz in the gtx280,however apart from that the majority of the specs are unchanged and simply look better because the 2 x gt200b gpu,s are enclosed in a single unit personally the only guys this would be of interest to are quad sli builders,and to be honest 2 x gtx280,s would run better than a single gtx295 there is the addition of a hdmi output which is excellent and 2 x dual-link DVI ,however on the whole the gtx295 is just another dual gpu built in a single unit bring on direct x 11 and shader model 5.0(never happy are we)

  • WarGrad

    Posted Dec 26, 2008 10:13 am PT

    " e011234

    So...what do you's all think about my 6800GT? Its still good..rite?.."

    Maybe about 3 years ago. Update ASAP. That card is a bare minimum now.

  • Maverick4Ever

    Posted Dec 26, 2008 1:55 am PT

    otherwise I agree, but make it an X-Fi Titanium Champion Series sound card. The best one on the market.

  • ele975

    Posted Dec 25, 2008 8:30 pm PT

    Oh man, think of this rig:

    The newest Intel Motherboard (never remember it)
    SLI GTX 295
    Intel i7 Core Extreme
    4Gb DDR3 RAM
    Fatal1ty Extreme Audio Card

    PC of the dream!

  • Frohicky

    Posted Dec 25, 2008 5:53 pm PT

    Omg I'm getting this! Crysis Warhead finally brought to its knees! Its gonna look awesome!

  • Maverick4Ever

    Posted Dec 25, 2008 12:35 am PT

    VIP, it's still not exactly an odd number. Memory always goes in in the same increments of 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, and so on. In this case it's 7 x 256

  • chrisda

    Posted Dec 24, 2008 5:02 pm PT

    @ dapoochiman,
    "cmon ATI!!
    fight back, you can do it!"

    No, They can't

  • abr_alex

    Posted Dec 24, 2008 3:01 pm PT

    Man this article was written by a retard GTA4 is extremely CPU-limited and GPU means much less.

  • SuperGamer911

    Posted Dec 24, 2008 2:03 pm PT

    I'm more than satisfied with my GeForce 9500. It can run GRAW 1 on max settings and Spider Man 3 with almost no lag.

  • keatman

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 11:32 pm PT

    this video card will probably cost like 3 - 4 months of my salary.

  • dapoochiman

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 11:19 pm PT

    cmon ATI!!
    fight back, you can do it!

  • nuclearbomb2000

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 10:09 pm PT

    *the_real_VIP: I really hate that new trend of odd memory size; 1,792MB? Why not a full 2GB?*

    Why you ask? its because when people look at the box and read 1,792MB, they think its the most powerful beast on earth, numbers mean everything ~o~

  • Templar_Bladema

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 7:59 pm PT

    As I read this, my laptop gets ready to die by blue screen of death. I crap my pants at seeing the impressive amount of awesonium put into this.

  • voodoochild815

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 7:42 pm PT

    and btw the way ati and nvidia whats up with the 10.5 inch video cards???? are you in cahoots with case manufactures? and your just making bigger video cards so they can sell there cases? anyways im sure the gtx 280 and 295 can be stream lined into the good ol 9 inch video card. if nvidia does it only time will tell

  • chrisda

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 7:40 pm PT

    I...am going to cry in a corner now

  • voodoochild815

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 7:39 pm PT

    im happy with my 9800 gt and wont upgrade until the next video card generation

  • OatmealKing

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 2:28 pm PT

    so do i get 2 of these or still go with 2 GX2's???? GAMESPOT let me see some performance specs on those to.....also haha......there starting to make these GPU cases so pretty im starting to regret the fact that i have to strip em of that to watercool.....8(

  • NickAnguiano

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 2:26 pm PT

    VIP, prolly so they can keep the price on par with the competition. I bet if they made it 2GB it would be more expensive and thus people might be deterred from getting it. Either way though.. I just ordered a GTX 280 for my new computer like 2 days ago. I am going to be happy with just that. I don't need 500 FPS on Crysis or w/e lol. 150 FPS will do just fine :-P

  • the_real_VIP

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 11:25 am PT

    I really hate that new trend of odd memory size; 1,792MB? Why not a full 2GB?

  • jollyroger123

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 11:23 am PT

    my mother board can handle and the new CPU from Intel the I7

  • jollyroger123

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 11:21 am PT

    9600 GT all the way!!!

  • NickAnguiano

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 9:59 am PT

    Been a console gamer all my life until I lucked out and through some legal stuff received a huge settlement and unfortunately I lack enough of a life to have "Get a super awesome gaming computer" as the only thing on my list of wants. I already ordered a GTX 280 video card. Also getting an intel core 2 Quad Q9550, 4GB DDR2 1066 Mhz, 650 watt PSU, and probably like a 24-25" monitor. I think that is really only what is worth mentioning. (By the way if there is something in there that sucks feel free to tell me so I know not to get it and any suggested improvements would be nice! I don't know a lot about computers). Anyways.. I THINK that computer will be able to play the latest games at high settings at a decent FPS. I don't think I need to bother cancelling my order of the GTX 280. I believe I saw someone say that 2 GTX 280s in SLI or w/e it's called would probably be even better than this card. Not to mention this card is probably going to cost $500+

  • yeolderellik

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 9:18 am PT

    What..!!!???, videocard developers are designing cards that supports max settings for the games before they are released??? Take the example of GTAIV, doesn't run on full settings on the latest graphic card model so they have to develop one that does (hence the strange numbers on the Mhz displayed in the core clock, hader clock, etc)

  • Caml10

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 7:20 am PT

    My Radeon X1600 ftw!

  • marriage0

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 6:10 am PT

    lukemularczyk -- Same here, it was back in April 07 when i upgraded my machine last, so im running on an almost 2 year old 8800GTS which i can still run everything on (crysis included)

  • lukemularczyk

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 5:58 am PT

    "This is why PC gaming sucks. every time you turn arround some one has new hardware and in less than a year time you can pic this up for 150-200 bucks and it wont play games well in 1-4 years."

    yeah and that xbox origional from 4 years ago plays new xbox 360 games really well doesn't it!

    it can be more expensive but you upgrade each little bit when and where you want, i'm still using a 2 year old machine with a 8600gts and it still runs most things on max

  • ropumar

    Posted Dec 23, 2008 4:40 am PT

    Its great having more technology coming everyday. I myself cant buy the best computers available cause where i live the hardware always comes late (when already is dated) and at triple the price. But nonetheless I think is great, since enthusiasts will buy and help move the technology forward.

    And enthusiasts buy because they can, if i could i would sure do.

  • e011234

    Posted Dec 22, 2008 11:58 pm PT

    So...what do you's all think about my 6800GT? Its still good..rite?...

  • joevit posted Dec 22, 2008 11:34 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. login to show)

    joevit

    Posted Dec 22, 2008 11:34 pm PT (hide)

    This is why PC gaming sucks. every time you turn arround some one has new hardware and in less than a year time you can pic this up for 150-200 bucks and it wont play games well in 1-4 years.

  • GenVidTh

    Posted Dec 22, 2008 10:12 pm PT

    We wait for you ATI

    When ATI give another card, both prices will be ultimately drop

    Can't wait for it

  • XaineBD

    Posted Dec 22, 2008 9:09 pm PT

    The only problem with two cards together in one is you don't get twice the performance. Hopefully the Hydra chip will resolve that issue as they say it should. No new news from them though... www . lucidlogix . com by the way.

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