Quad sli 295 GTX The most powerful setup available

I think he was excited about getting to do the review =P
(I would have been too=)
What a great result though, some impressive numbers.

Thanks for the link L1qu1d

its just to expensive liquid, well it is in the uk £392 that = 595 in dollars, god i hate it when nvidia are on top, they just take the piss, on a side note you can pick up the 4850x2 for £259 and the 4870x2 for £339, and if what ive been hearing is true they have put up the price of the 260, since the release of there big bang drivers, and to me that is just unacceptible, and i also find the price of the 4870x2 unacceptible.

i might be selling my soul to the devil next week for this.

anyway to be more realistic, i cant help but ask. they (not guru3d)said that a single 295 is a pair of cards with performance between a 260-216 and a 280 on a smaller die size. will they sell it single?

I doubt it, the GTX295 uses the full 240 core GPU (that the GTX280 uses) and combined it with a 448 bit bus (That the GTX260 uses) in order to cut down on the PCB cost. But there will be 55nm GTX280s and GTX260s coming.

On the plus side this could start another pricing war, ATI will probably drop the cost of the HD4870X2 to be more attractive and Nvidia may follow suit.

You say that about all the drivers hahaha...it won't push it above the 295 GTx unfortunately since its almost 2 280s put together...thought I'm surprised that the 280s actually did significantly better sometimes

Heres another one, where it was used alot to show how BB2 drivers had done so well in using quad core cpus, and as they said, thered be a follow up, well its not out yet, but a small preview of ATI's response
http://forums.extremeoverclocking. [...] ?p=3313248

If you followed those gains, youd see they were only on a few games, just like BB2 was, and as Anand showed, the BB2 drivers actually were worse in other games, not the selected 5 games. Look for these drivers, as the x2 will love them

Anyways, this is the site here http://64.233.187.100/translate_c? [...] eUYSBcOEog
Realise that its a cat n mouse game for these cards, as as one makes a move, the other counters. There is no domination here. If people are so excited about a simple driver release, why arent they excited about HW? Like DX10.1 capabilities? No driver can change that, only HW. Drivers can be rewritten, HW, you need to start all over for. Also, coming soon, some power control coming in future drivers as well. Just a heads up is all, and also, pointing out the 295, which is loud and expensive, has come too late for the party, and doesnt perform exceptionally well over its competition, but it is a compelling answer for those that only see green

In a 100$ difference, the card doesnt make me want to go and grab it. If it totally dominated, and had clear wins by good margins, then yes, its a go, but it isnt like that, its a better G216 vs a 4870 is all, and itll win a few more than lose, but nothing earthshaking. I just wish nVidia had taken its time to do it even better, and get away from their sandwitch card design. Its an ok card, but too expensive for its performance

Rumors have it that its a larger chip design. That isnt a total failure design approach, it just makes it hard to do it ATIs way, and if thats better for a halo product, Im afraid we will conrinue to see this as nVidias approach to its halo product

i think i read some where that there next card is going to be dx11, and i dont think nvidia will pull it off, they couldn't even get a proper dx10 card out, microsoft had to relax its dx spec, i think you can chalk the next one up for ATI

not heard from you for some time liquid, whats my nemesis been up2 then (world domination) LOL

Busting my ass at school, and playing as much as I can in between my birthday is coming up in 12 days...and its sad to say its about the only thing to look forward to

I leave my Global Domination to Pinky and the Brain

if dx11 stops nvidia sacrificing image quality for FPS ill be a happy man, that is one of the benefits of dx11, am i right?, think i came across it some where

had words with some one else on here, it wasn't the same, came away feeling dirty, it felt like i was cheating, LOL

During the 5, 6 and 7 series this was a valid complaint. With the 8 series Nvidia actually pulled ahead of ATI in terms of image quality. Right now there's probably no noticeable difference, I haven't seen any recent reviews complaining about either at least.

http://www.techpowerup.com/?43827

so your saying a leopard can change its spots, it is nvidia im talking about

look the way i see it is, nvidia will never NEVER play fair, they have to have the fastest card at all cost, and it will take microsoft to stop it, you buy a high end card
so you can have all the eye candy on, you dont need nvidia messing with your enjoyment

here is a glimse of next ATI move is to go 40mn http://www.tomshardware.com/news/R [...] ,6720.html

does DDR6 exist?

ATI has done the same thing in the past, I remember that ATI added some "optimizations" to help quake 3 performance for the 8500 at the cost of image quality. All the reviewers had to do was rename Quake3.exe to Quack3.exe and the image quality would go back to normal and would it run slower. Both companies have done this to an extent, Nvidia has just gotten kind of a reputation for it since the 5 series.

GDDR5 will probably last awhile, there's already GDDR5 that can reach above 4Ghz effective so it doesn't look like we'll hit the ceiling anytime soon.

Edit: Actually they can get it up to 7Ghz so far - http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/ [...] ghz_gddr5/

Nope, I don't think they've even come up with the specification for GDDR6 yet. Also keep in mind that the specifications for GDDR are a little different than DDR. DDR4 doesn't exist yet but GDDR4 does, the generations don't really match up.

ATI found the returns just werent there, and nVidia couldnt use it, as their was too much signal noise from their wires, and would have created alot of changes

Makes sense. Lets hope GDDR5 will be used fully soon

speaking of the drivers, does ccc has "multi core cpu support?" (or was it optimization). because i remember i saw that option back when i was on a geforce.

sorry didnt read the link, im on a hurry.