Introduction
NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 295 Series has been the King of the Hill in graphics cards performance for quite a while now. The initial design was based on two PCBs with one set of GPU, memory, voltage regulation each. Now NVIDIA has updated their design to cram all components onto a single PCB. While there was some speculation about such a product, many people thought it impossible to be realized due to the large die size and heat output of the NVIDIA GT200 GPU design.
Just like the original GeForce GTX 295, the single-PCB GTX 295 comes with two 55 nm GPUs that each have 240 shading units, memory bus width is 448 bit per GPU and each GPU has 896 MB of memory available. The clock speeds have remained at 576 / 999 MHz. So in essence the performance of the "new" GTX 295 is unchanged to the old one. This also explains why NVIDIA has not released a new product name for their new card generation. This makes it more difficult for customers to spot the right product they want, something like GTX 295+ would had made sense for that. On the other hand many people (us included) would probably complain that there were no real performance improvements in such a product.
Inno3D has taken the NVIDIA reference design and followed its specs to the letter, this means that this card is identical to any other GTX 295 single PCB reference card out there, except for the sticker on the cooler.
| Radeon HD 4890 | GeForce GTX 275 | GeForce GTX 280 | Radeon HD 4870 X2 | GeForce GTX 285 | GeForce GTX 295 | Inno3D GTX 295 Platinum |
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Shader units | 800 | 240 | 240 | 2x 800 | 240 | 2x 240 | 2x 240 |
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ROPs | 16 | 32 | 32 | 2x 16 | 32 | 2x 28 | 2x 28 |
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GPU | RV790 | GT200 | GT200 | 2x RV770 | GT200b | 2x GT200b | 2x GT200b |
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Transistors | 959M | 1400M | 1400M | 2x 956M | 1400M | 2x 1400M | 2x 1400M |
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Memory Size | 1024 MB | 896 MB | 1024 MB | 2x 1024 MB | 1024 MB | 2x 896 MB | 2x 896 MB |
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Memory Bus Width | 256 bit | 448 bit | 512 bit | 2x 256 bit | 512 bit | 2x 448 bit | 2x 448 bit |
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Core Clock | 850 MHz | 633 MHz | 602 MHz | 750 MHz | 648 MHz | 576 MHz | 576 MHz |
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Memory Clock | 975 MHz | 1134 MHz | 1107 MHz | 900 MHz | 1242 MHz | 999 MHz | 999 MHz |
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Price | $249 | $249 | $329 | $429 | $340 | $525 | $525 |
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