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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Conina said:

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)

This is aincent hisotry your listing here. The launch of the console generation has very little to do with current high end GPU market. Its not like these consoles are pushing PC GPUs in terms of performance. 

Look at more moden history...

GTX 590 > GTX 680

GTX 690 > GTX 780/Titan/Ti

In strict business sense, something Nvidia is very good at as of late...its very doubtful you will see more than 25% performance improvement with Maxwell over 780 Ti.