Nvidia's GeForce GTX 295 & GTX 285 To Launch at CES 09?

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NVIDIA is preparing the GeForce GTX 295 and GTX 285 cards for launch on January 8th at CES 2009. According to the official data VR-Zone has seen, GeForce GTX 295 card has dual 55nm GT200 GPUs and 1792MB GDDR3 memories on 896-bit memory interface. The rest of the specs like number of shader processors and clocks speeds are listed as TBA. As for GeForce GTX 285, it is a replacement for the current GeForce GTX 280 card with a 55nm GT200 GPU with higher clocks. Therefore, GeForce GTX 280 cards will reach EOL in a month time. As for GeForce GTX 260, Nvidia has released design kits to the card makers and you should be seeing some self-designed cards in Q1 next year.



Firstly, GeForce GTX295 VGA card will feature two GPUs of 55nm GT200. And the number of stream processors is 480 (240×2), not 216×2 as we reported. Besides, its memory bus width is 896 bit (448bitx2), and memory size is 1792MB DDR3 (896MBx2). It won’t adopt GDDR5, and its total power is 289W. GTX 295 will be launched on Jan 8th, exactly on the day when CES2009 starts.

The frequency and pricing of GeForce GTX295 are unknown yet. Judging from the above specifications, it isn’t dual-GPU GTX260 or dual-GPU GTX280. Anyway, it’s obvious that GeForce GTX295 is about to regain its performance dominance.

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The first is set to be the 55nm successor to the GTX 280 – the GTX 285 sees a die shrink, increased clock speeds, and probably reduced operating temperatures while still becoming most likely the fastest single GPU graphics cards on the market at that time.

The second, and what should ultimately take back the graphics performance crown for NVIDIA, is the GeForce GTX 295.

If the reports are to be believed, this will be a dual-GPU card based on two new 55nm GeForce GTX GT200 (240 core) GPUs. It is said that it will get 1792MB GDDR3 memory (2 x 896MB) on 896-bit memory interface.

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Specifications are :

• Fabrication Process : 55 nm
• Core Clock : 576 MHz
• Shader Clock : 1242 MHz
• Memory Clock (Clock rate / Data rate) : 1000 MHz / 2000 MHz
• Total Video Memory : 1792 MB
• Memory Interface : 448-bit per GPU
• Total Memory Bandwidth : 224 GB/s
• Processor Cores : 480
• ROP Units : 28
• Texture Filtering Units : 160
• Texture Filtering Rate : 92.2 GigaTexels/sec
• Connectors : 2 x Dual-Link DVI-I 1 x HDMI
• RAMDACs : 400 MHz
• Bus Technology : PCI Express 2.0
• Form Factor : Dual Slot
• Power Connectors : 1 x 6-pin 1 x 8-pin
• Max Board Power (TDP) : 289 watts