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Halloween may have come and gone but that doesn’t stop NVIDIA from dropping a new freakishly branded Halloween addition to the GTX 275 graphics card just in time for you to ask Santa to buy you one. It seems as though NVIDIA has set a milestone for Dual GPU’s alike. They have taken two different GPU’s and crammed them onto one card.

Dubbed “Hybrid SLI” this baby has the beautiful GTX 275 GPU and the GTS 250 with well over a gig of DDR3 memory between the two GPU’s (1280MB). The GTX 275 GPU is used for handling all graphics and renderings, while the GTS 250 is dedicated to rendering all the PhysX calculations. With the two GPUs, the abundance of memory and the combined clock speeds this baby pumps out about 179.8 GB/sec of memory bandwidth.

I bet all of you crazy, liquid-cooled, overclocking, Crysis loving (mmm so pretty), performance junkies are probably wetting yourself right about now. Especially because now you can toss that PhysX card into the trash and use that extra PCIe 2.0 slot for your third beauty, and triple SLI the crap out of your rig.

If your looking for performance numbers to validate the purchase of this baby I am limited in my benchmarks as I am going off what I have read myself thus far. However, I can tell you that games that support dedicated PhysX PPU support show anywhere from 20 to 40% increase in performance vs. using just the CPU to do your PhysX Calculations.

So what will one of these little pieces of heaven cost you, you ask? Probably retailing well above $300. However, it seems as though EVGA will be tossing in a copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum with the purchase to make you feel a little less guilty for using that tuition check you got from your parents to pay for it.

Thoughts on this little device? I for one, never really thought the PhysX thing would kick in before NVDIA developed a new computing technology for physics engines, so I’d love to hear what you all think/wanna see from NVIDIA with these new cards.