Intro, Specs and Bundle

A few weeks back, we took an in-depth look at the dual-GPU powered NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295. Just to recap a bit; the GeForce GTX 295 is NVIDIA's current flagship graphics card that couples a pair of 55nm GT200 GPUs with 1792MB of frame buffer memory, culminating in what is ultimately the fastest, single graphics adapter on the market at this time. It appeared after about 5 months of work and fine tuning, NVIDIA was sick and tired of letting AMD's Radeon HD 4870 X2 lead the pack as the fastest single graphics card in the market.



In our launch article, we also gave you a glimpse of the EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Plus, but due to time constraints, we weren't able to benchmark and fully evaluate the card. We have since, however, given the EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Plus a good once over, and are ready to shine the spotlight on it here. Although it is, at its core, a straight-up reference design, EVGA worked a bit of their mojo and tweaked the GTX 295 Plus' clock speeds slightly to boost the card's performance over stock models. Take a second to check out the specifications and bundle below, and then we'll move on to the fun stuff and evaluate the card itself and its performance...

EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Plus EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Plus Specifications and Features GPU:

Fabrication Process: 55nm

Processor Cores: 480

ROP Units: 56

Texture Filtering Units: 160

Core Clock (MHz): 594 MHz

Shader Clock (MHz): 1296 MHz

Texture Filtering Rate: 92.2Giga Texels/s



Memory:

Memory Clock (MHz DDR): 2052 MHz

Total Memory Config: 1792 MB

Memory Interface Width: 448-bit per GPU

Total Memory Bandwidth: 229.8GB/s



Display Support:

Maximum Digital Resolution: 2560x1600

Maximum VGA Resolution: 2048x1536



Standard Display Connectors:

2 x Dual-Link DVI-I, 1 x HDMI Feature Support:

NVIDIA SLI-ready: Quad-SLI

NVIDIA PureVideo Technology-HD

NVIDIA PhysX-ready

NVIDIA CUDA Technology

HybridPower Technology

GeForce Boost

Microsoft DirectX 10

OpenGL 2.1



Bus Support: PCI-E 2.0 x16



Standard Graphics Card Dimensions:

Height: 4.376 inches (111 mm)

Length: 10.5 inches (267 mm)

Width: Dual-slot



Thermal and Power Specs:

Maximum GPU Temperature (in C): 105

Maximum Graphics Card Power (W): 289

Power Connectors: 6-pin x1, 8-pin x1



EVGA kept the GeForce GTX 295 Plus' bundle simple and strightforward. Included with the card itself, EVGA has thrown in a pair of PCI Express power adapters (one 6-pin, one 8-pin), a DVI-to-VGA adapter, an S/PDIF digital audio pass-through cable to compliment the card's HDMI output, a driver CD, a case badge, and a user's manual. Sorry, no full version games here, but EVGA's excellent Precision graphics tuning utility is offered with the card as well, which is a nice plus.

