Nvidia ”GTX 790” Will have 10 GB GDDR5 of Memory, 640Bit Bandwidth and 4992 Cuda Cores – Stated to Release sometime February

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disolitude said:

Tom3k said:
Why would anyone buy this when Maxwell GPU's are expected to arrive in March?

Because this is a dual GPU card and more powerful than anything Maxwell will have available for a long time. 

Unless history repeats itself. In the year that followed the start of the 7th console generation, GPU peformance made a major leap:

The single GPU 8800 GTX was up to 50% faster than the (only a few months older) dual GPU 7950 GX2, less noisy, cooler temperatures and no SLI problems.

Perhaps Nvidia steps up its game again. They have to compete again with a fresh console generation and even the names are similar:

8800 GTX > 7950 GX2 (2006), GTX 880 > GTX 790 (2014)