Single PCB GeForce GTX 295 Coming Mid May

Nvidia is planning to launch their single PCB, dual GPU GeForce GTX 295 card somewhere in mid May although the official launch date hasn’t been firmed up yet. The card is based on a new P658 PCB which is 11″ long and takes up 2 slots with a new cooler. The core clock remains unchanged [...]

ASUS RADEON HD 4850/4870 and GeForce GTX 285/295 Review

More and more plain reference copies are released into the market, and it’s a sad situation for reviewers, as there is no point in presenting just another copy for the Nth time.
Fortunately, company’s R&D department still exists in its full strength, so we have an opportunity to see original ASUS products from time to time.
Still, [...]

Single-PCB GTX 295 arrives in May

The single PCB GTX 295 from Nvidia is confirmed for May time, and we’ve heard that end users should not really be excited about it.
The clocks will be the same, the price will be the same, and we still don’t know if the new card manages to have better TDP then previous version. Some partners [...]

Mainstream GPU Shootout: GeForce GTX 275 vs Radeon 4890

Thanks to cutthroat competition between ATI and NVIDIA, and arguably the most brutal economic downturn since the Great Depression, getting a high-end graphics card for gaming has never been more affordable than it is today. Right now $200 buys you a tremendous amount of performance – both NVDIA’s GeForce GTX 260 and ATI’s Radeon 4870 [...]

GeForce GTX 295: New on Old – Review

This article is going to be slightly different. Instead of testing the most powerful and expensive graphics card currently available in a high-end system, we’ll be plugging it into a fairly old AMD dual core system. That’s right, no fancy Core i7 X58 system here… not even a Core 2 system. In this review we’ll [...]

NVIDIA’s Scheme of Single-PCB Reference GTX295 Outlined

While GeForce GTX275 and Radeon HD 4890 catch the most focus, we’re informed that NVIDIA is working on a new GTX295 reference design card featuring single PCB.
The current GTX295 features dual-PCB design codenamed P656 with one GPU on each. New GTX295 will adopt single PCB design known as P658, which means NVIDIA need to cram two [...]

Unleashing NVIDIA’s GTX 295 Graphics Card

CPU limitation is something that we always talk about when it comes to high-end graphics cards. When we say this, we mean that the CPU is holding back the frames that the graphics card is capable of putting out. The less intensive the game, or the lower resolution you play at; this increases the chances [...]

EVGA Releases GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition

Performance
NVIDIA GTX 295
576 MHz GPU
480 Processing Cores
400 MHz RAMDAC
Memory
1792 MB, 896 bit DDR3
1998 MHz (effective)
223.8 GB/s Memory Bandwidth
Interface
PCI-E 2.0 16x
DVI-I, DVI-I, HDMI
SLI Capable
Resolution & Refresh
240Hz Max Refresh Rate
2048×1536 Max Analog
2560×1600 Max Digital
Key Features

NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology
Dramatically scales performance by allowing two graphics cards [...]

EVGA GTX 295 1792MB GDDR3 Video Card Review

I know that there are many of you are thinking right now: “what, another new graphics card from Nvidia?” yup, you got it guys, Nvidia is on a mission to recapture the performance crown from the HD 4870 X2 and they aren’t being subtle about it. Their latest stab at the ultra high end is [...]