14 DAY TRIAL // For those that haven't grown tired of reading about leaked details on NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTX 295 graphics cards, we have a new round of performance results regarding what is to become the fastest graphics card on the market, a dual-GPU card based on NVIDIA 55nm GT200 graphics processor. While previous details were strictly related to the specifications, pricing and expected release date, this time around, two of these graphics cards have been tested on a Core i7 platform, using the world-renowned 3DMark Vantage, a Futuremark product.
Given the card's technical specifications, you can imagine that using two such cards in an SLI setup would basically provide a quad-GPU desktop computer rig. That alone should give you a glimpse of the performance capability of such a system. If not, you should take a look at the 3DMark Vantage results provided by the guys from Xfastest. Screenshots of the results have been picked up by Techconnect Magazine, and as you can see, the GTX 295, in an SLI setup, can score a more than decent P32473.
For those familiar with the benchmark, the score is impressive, especially if you consider that the test platform used pre-release beta drivers, which means that the official drivers could potentially increase the performance of this quad-GPU NVIDIA platform.
We should also mention that the platform was based on an ASUS Rampage II Extreme motherboard, which boasted an Intel Core i7 Extreme 965 processor clocked to 4.19GHz. The graphics cards were also overclocked to a 705MHz core, 1480MHz Shaders and 1250MHZ memory. The GPU scored 35711 points, taking the overall score to a total of P32573.
When the card is officially released in early 2009, we should get better scores, with new drivers. Also, with PhysX and CUDA enabled, the platform could potentially score the highest 3DMark Vantage points.