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NVIDIA GTX 295 Brings the Pain and Performance
Vigile writes "Dual-GPU graphics cards are all the rage and it was a pair of RV770 cores that AMD had to use in order to best the likes of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 280. This time NVIDIA has the goal of taking back the performance crown and the GeForce GTX 295 essentially takes two of the GT200 GPUs used on the GTX 280, shrinks them from 65nm to 55nm, and puts them on a single card. The results are pretty impressive and the GTX 295 dominates in the benchmarks with a price tag of $499."
this is like the razor wars (double blade! triple blade! quad blade! pento blade!).
Clearly you don't value a close shave.
Posts not to be taken literally. Almost everything is sarcasm.
Somehow most previews don't even mention power consumption.
Had you RTFA properly, folks have mentioned that card is not yet officially out and nVidia asked to withheld further details as BIOS might still get tweaked.
By that logic everything which does not start to burn is power efficient...
This is not an absolute metric (or is it "yardic" in US?). I presume they compare it to 4870 on which the infamous DDR5 alone - even when idle - draws whooping 40W. 4870x2 has already tweaked factory BIOS and yet twice more DDR5 still consumes same 40W. Yes - RAM alone consumes 40W.
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I like A Close Shave. But I still think The Wrong Trousers is the best of the films with Wallace & Gromit.
Carbon based humanoid in training.
No, the funny thing here is that AMD *did* have the performance crown, even though they had planned to give it up. Before the GTX 295, the Radeon 4870x2 was the top of the pile for single-card graphics.
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