AMD Phenom @ 6.28GHz

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ssj12 said:

Squilliam said:

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Why would you want a super fast SSD and a 15kRPM drive? Don't they do precisely the same job? They also scale extremely well in Raid 0 so you'd be better off striping them than to get one of both, the way I see it.

Also Nvidia has released a new high end single chip card within aprox 6 months of releasing a dual GPU card and in pretty much all cases so far you've been better off with the single chip.

7950Gx2 -> 8800GTX -> 9800GX2 -> GTX280 -> GTX 295 -> GTX3xx?

 

 

the 9800GX2 outpaces the GTX 260..... the GTX 295 should outpace the high end GTX 3xx but not touch the GTX 4xx

Seeing as the 295 will have the clocks of a GTX280 but the bus and I/O of a GTX260, it should have the overall performance of GTX260 Core 216 SLI. It may even be matched by the GTX285 in some cases, as that will have a 10% higher clock than the GTX 280.

But 40nm Radeons will beat it. Nvidia's taken this long to get to 55nm, so 40nm will be much later. Anyway, the real high end battle is GT3xx vs. R800 or similar, in H2 2009.