If it wasnt clear enough from the recent price drops on both NVIDIA and ATI video cards our review today should put it all in perspective, its time for another round of new video cards. Today weve got NVIDIA launching their latest bit of high-end technology, the GeForce GTX 295. This is the successor to the late 9800 GX2 and 7950 GX2 before it in the dual GPU, single video card segment. It promises to be the fastest video card to ever grace a single PCI-E slot, trying to outpace the reigning heavyweight champ, ATIs Radeon HD 4870X2.
While NVIDIA had a great single card solution in the GeForce GTX 280, the existing design and production technology behind it didnt lend itself well to doubling up the GPUs into a single card. Today NVIDIA has finally caught back up in the war to shrink its GPUs into the smallest manufacturing process currently available, 55nm. With the die shrink they were able to reign in power consumption and with just 289W TDP (Total Dissipated Watts) Id say theyve done a great job.
The front of the GeForce GTX 295 is covered by a black metal front cover for no reason other than to offer protection for the components located behind it. What makes this cover different than say the one found on the GeForce 9800 GX2 is the fact that soft touch paint is used for a matte look and feel. Looking at the GTX 295, I have to say that its more appealing than the 9800 GX2.The upper exhaust area is larger on the GTX 295 as well which should help keep this monster cooler. The fan looks to be a carryover from the old GX2 and does a great job staying quiet, yet keeping everything cool.
The two GPUs used in the GeForce GTX 295 have specifications that sit between the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280. Each GPU features the full array of 240 processing cores and 80 texture filtering units. The processor cores and filtering units operate at 1242 MHz and 576 MHz respectively. Each GPU features seven ROP and framebuffer partitions. Each ROP partition contains four ROP units, providing each GPU with 28 ROP units. Each framebuffer partition is connected to 128 MB of memory, totaling 896 MB of video memory for each GPU. That brings the overall memory on the card up to 1792 MB, which is no doubt a strange amount of memory. The total number of processing cores would be 480 and that makes this card one that should perform with the best of them.
The back of the card is not covered at all, which is strange considering the GeForce 9800 GX2 was covered by a metal casing on all sides.
scuppo said
09:12 02/18 2009
lawd dekky...lol
scuppo said
09:17 02/18 2009
i sthis actually faster than the ATIs Radeon HD 4870X2?
DekaNo said
09:18 02/18 2009
it get some better benchmark inna game but the ATI bag it up inna 3d rendering
AJ said
09:21 02/18 2009
which channel dis running on, if it aint ddr4 it aint shit
DekaNo said
09:22 02/18 2009
lol the ATI RADEON HD4870 4870 X2 2 GB GDDR5 PCI-E 2.0 a ddr 5 and the Nvidia 295 a ddr3 but yet the nvidia one better inna game
DekaNo said
09:25 02/18 2009
hold on how yu a talk bout if ano ddr4 it aint shit scuppo have a 9800 wah play everything pon max and that a ddr3 mine a ddr3 same way wah play everything pon mas resolution weh most a the game them deh pon gamer resolution
AJ said
09:25 02/18 2009
bLaCkBeatZ said
12:51 02/18 2009
eeeeh mi cyaah buy this
Rimz876 said
15:07 02/18 2009
AJ wrote:
which channel dis running on, if it aint ddr4 it aint shit
GDDR3 but dat still nuuh mean seh it naa go betta dan a ATI
Rimz876 said
15:10 02/18 2009
di stream processores pan it slapweh!!!!!!!!
DekaNo said
15:28 02/18 2009
240 stream processor but ati dun it wid fi it 1600 stream processor
If it wasnt clear enough from the recent price drops on both NVIDIA and ATI video cards our review today should put it all in perspective, its time for another round of new video cards. Today weve got NVIDIA launching their latest bit of high-end technology, the GeForce GTX 295. This is the successor to the late 9800 GX2 and 7950 GX2 before it in the dual GPU, single video card segment. It promises to be the fastest video card to ever grace a single PCI-E slot, trying to outpace the reigning heavyweight champ, ATIs Radeon HD 4870X2.
While NVIDIA had a great single card solution in the GeForce GTX 280, the existing design and production technology behind it didnt lend itself well to doubling up the GPUs into a single card. Today NVIDIA has finally caught back up in the war to shrink its GPUs into the smallest manufacturing process currently available, 55nm. With the die shrink they were able to reign in power consumption and with just 289W TDP (Total Dissipated Watts) Id say theyve done a great job.
The front of the GeForce GTX 295 is covered by a black metal front cover for no reason other than to offer protection for the components located behind it. What makes this cover different than say the one found on the GeForce 9800 GX2 is the fact that soft touch paint is used for a matte look and feel. Looking at the GTX 295, I have to say that its more appealing than the 9800 GX2.The upper exhaust area is larger on the GTX 295 as well which should help keep this monster cooler. The fan looks to be a carryover from the old GX2 and does a great job staying quiet, yet keeping everything cool.
The two GPUs used in the GeForce GTX 295 have specifications that sit between the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280. Each GPU features the full array of 240 processing cores and 80 texture filtering units. The processor cores and filtering units operate at 1242 MHz and 576 MHz respectively. Each GPU features seven ROP and framebuffer partitions. Each ROP partition contains four ROP units, providing each GPU with 28 ROP units. Each framebuffer partition is connected to 128 MB of memory, totaling 896 MB of video memory for each GPU. That brings the overall memory on the card up to 1792 MB, which is no doubt a strange amount of memory. The total number of processing cores would be 480 and that makes this card one that should perform with the best of them.
The back of the card is not covered at all, which is strange considering the GeForce 9800 GX2 was covered by a metal casing on all sides.
