Inno3D GeForce GTX 295 Platinum (Single PCB)

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
Shader units	800	240	240	2x 800	240	2x 240	2x 240
ROPs	16	32	32	2x 16	32	2x 28	2x 28
GPU	RV790	GT200	GT200	2x RV770	GT200b	2x GT200b	2x GT200b
Transistors	959M	1400M	1400M	2x 956M	1400M	2x 1400M	2x 1400M
Memory Size	1024 MB	896 MB	1024 MB	2x 1024 MB	1024 MB	2x 896 MB	2x 896 MB
Memory Bus Width	256 bit	448 bit	512 bit	2x 256 bit	512 bit	2x 448 bit	2x 448 bit
Core Clock	850 MHz	633 MHz	602 MHz	750 MHz	648 MHz	576 MHz	576 MHz
Memory Clock	975 MHz	1134 MHz	1107 MHz	900 MHz	1242 MHz	999 MHz	999 MHz
Price	$249	$249	$329	$429	$340	$525	$525