EVGA: Bloodred GTX 295 graphics card

EVGA tries to emphasize its new red and black color designs with the nVidia GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition. The earlier announed GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 (55nm) was also red, and the recently introduced X58 SLI Classified also sports this new design scheme.

De GTX 295 Red Edition (top) by EVGA and its X58 SLI Classified motherboard (bottom)

EVGA's GTX 295 has its core clocked at 576 Mhz, the shaders at 1242 MHz and the GDDR3-memory features a 1998 MHz clock frequency. By means of EVGA's GPU Voltage Tuner, these frequencies can be adjusted easily by the user. 

The graphics card (serial number 017-P3-1294-AR) has a red hood covering the cooler and the back of the PCB. Its specified this should decrease the temperature with about 10º Celsius while under full load.

The EVGA GeForce GTX295 Red Edition has a pricetag of $549.99 USD. Pricing and availability in other countries is still unknown. Apart from this red version, EVGA also has the EVGA-edition and a standard version of the card in its line-up.

The GTX 295 with EVGA backplate (top) and the version with the reference cooler

Tags: ddr3 geforce gtx260 gtx295 sli x58

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