14 DAY TRIAL // For a good while now, there have been reports that the Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA is planning to update its fastest graphics card to date, the GeForce GTX 295. According to previous rumors, the graphics chip maker is planning to announce a dual-GPU card that uses a different design, compared to its current offering. The new dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295 would combine two 55nm GT200 chips on a single PCB, a design feature that is largely similar to that of AMD's own dual-GPU Radeon model. It now appears that we have the very first pictures of said card, in the form of a custom-design graphics accelerator from Inno3D.
According to a recent news article that has surfaced on Expreview, Inno3D has just announced that its upcoming GeForce GTX 295 will be based on the previously-rumored single-PCB reference design of the GTX295, codenamed P658. The differences between the P658 and the current dual-PCB design, codenamed P656, can hardly be noticed, especially considering that the length of the PCB remains the same.
The upcoming card, dubbed GeForce GTX 295 Platinum, will use a dual-slot cooler with a single 28.36mm turbo fan. In addition, due to the use of two GPUs on a single PCB design, Inno3D decided to equip the card with two large heatsinks. This cooling solution is meant to effectively remove the heat from the two 55nm GT200 chips, which are accompanied by two NVIO2 chips and a NF200 chip.
The two GPUs have 3-phase power supply, enabling the card to boast a 6+8 pin power connector. The card is equipped with 1792MB of 896-bit GDDR3 memory, 480 stream processors and core speed of 576MHz. The Shaders and memory clock speeds have been set to 1242 and 1998MHz. There are no details on pricing at this time, but according to Expreview the card should soon make its market debut.
