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nVidia GeForce GTX 295 specifications

Author: Marc Mouthaan

Publication: 12/25/2008 3:56 PM

News type: Product news

Sources: Hothardware / Nordic Hardware

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nVidia's revision of the 65nm GT200 chip and the die-shrink to 55nm made the chip more efficient and smaller than it its predecessor. The company has use the new chip to develop a new dual-GT200 graphics card, the GeForce GTX 295, which has been announced recently.

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Image source: Guru3D.com

The overview below shows the card's specifications:

Specification	Waarde
Core frequency	576 MHz
Shader frequency	1242 MHz
Memory frequency	999 MHz (1998 MHz data rate)
Memory capacity	1792 MB
Memory interface	448-bit per GPU
Total bandwidth	224 GB/s
Processors	480
ROP units	28
Texture filters	160
Texture filtering rate	92,2 GTexels/s
Connectors	2x Dual-Link DVI-I and 1x HDMI
RAMDAC	400 MHz
Bus	PCI-Express 2.0
Form factor	Dual slot
Powerconnectors	1x 6-pins and 1x 8-pins
TDP	289 Watt

The card has a sandwich design, meaning that it consists of two seperate PCB's, each equipped with a 55nm GT200 GPU. A heatsink is placed in the middle to keep the cards cooled down. It's possible to run two GeForce GTX 295 cards in a Quad SLI configuration. It's also possible to configure a single card so that one of the cores does the graphics, while the other core runs the physics (PhysX) calculations.

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image source: HardOCP.com

It's still unclear how the GeForce GTX 295 performs compared to ATI's dual-RV770 Radeon HD 4870X2 card. Benchmark results will be released shortly.

The card will be officially launched on the 8th of January, its price is still unknown.

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