2 EVGA GTX295 : First 3D numbers

[Xello]

As i suspected, the sandwich design is keeping the temps in order. People on another thread are actually bashing the card because of it Goodbye 80c idle temps (sapphire r700)

[fubarswe]

all very nice indeed.., thx for sharing!

[jonspd]

very nice results any chance in getting some bench scores on 1 card only?

[gregorisvas]

Guys help me out pls...I ordered a GTX295 but my psu is an Enermax Liberty 620W...Should I start looking for a new psu or it will work O.K?

[SAE]

Hui. Now that's power!

[giorgioprimo]

nice stuff Pedro ......... perfect as usual .......

[dan7777]

Guys help me out pls...I ordered a GTX295 but my psu is an Enermax Liberty 620W...Should I start looking for a new psu or it will work O.K?

620w wil be fine man

[Salavat23]

They are saying you should have 50A on the 12V line for a single 295gtx, and the 620HX has 60A. So it looks like YES! Which makes me happy, because I also have the 620HX, and am looking to do an EVGA step-up.

HX620 does 50A...

[GLENBOY]

come on pedro lets see some e8600 01 and 05 action

[Oliver]

sweet Pedro, looks interesting for sure.

This one will be the new 2k1 war huh?

Pedro and Sioux its time to start he he...

[dstedman]

HX620 does 50A...

Oops. Yes. 50A. Mistyped it. Should still be good, though.

[PcCI2iminal]

great work as always Pedro ^^


time for 3d01 :P

[Pedro Rocha]

OK, here are the first single GTX295 stock numbers with my favourite game

With RE and E8600 of course @ 5.950Mhz on cascade (need to improve contact for 6Ghz)



Compare link: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9457972

Now the bad news - the 180.xx drivers have the Car High "bug" - means CH is ridiculously low compared with 9800GX2 with 173.63 drivers or the GTX280's with 177.451

Nature is of course much better - 1650 no to bad for a single stock card

Here is a comparison - GTX295 stock (green) against 9800GX2 stock (red)





As you can see, CH is killing the scores ..

Try to force install 173.63 or 177.41 drivers (CH "bug" free), but they dont seems to work with GTX295


Finally an update with Vantage



Compare link: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=669830


Think 35K will be possible with stock cards and cpu on cascade ..

[hiwa]

really nice Nature sorry for driver
wait for driver mod or new drivers

[Pedro Rocha]

OK, received a few PM's about tweaks used .

As you know for me the spirit of XS is knowledge sharing, so here they are :

LOD= 4.9 all tests

Runnig order:
-> LH
-> LL
-> CH
-> Dragos
-> CL (repeat a few times until find the sweat spot)
-> Nature

[Achill3uS]

thanks for share your results Pedro, nice to see how 295 perfrom in 01 with 8600

[Harshal]

Thanks for sharing superb results.
Too bad about the driver CH problem with 01... hope its fixed soon!

[fubarswe]

.., had same experience with 181.20.., very low cars.., hit 118k on 6ghz/E86.., I will test runningorder as Pedro mentioned.., (tested it and it was a no go for me..) thx for sharing Pedro and congrats to sweet runs what so ever.. ! :-)

Put this in..



Runningorder here was backwards from N to CL.. 4.9 straight thrue.. RE and E86..GSkill 1800 and cascade

[itslogz]

Awesome scores.. I didnt expect that really. Take it higher

[Zeus]

A good car high will see around 420fps at 6GHz i guess which means +100fps high detail is 2000 points. Nice bonus! Fubarswe i think you'll need some more tweaking as you have everything clocked higher than Pedro except shaders, your score should be higher than Pedro's.

Then again, Pedro is the master of this game, unfair comparing.

Nice benching, GTX 295 seem like lots of fun.

[fubarswe]

smile* .., look @ rams.., lower.. mearly showing another approach @ different settings...
.., lil frustration over cars though.., first seeing nature and your eyes get bigger.., then when cars approach and you awaits massive score.. must laugh abit at my self.., like a kid on christmas.., getting soft package from Santa.. :-)

[Zeus]

Actually, the 3:5 divider is bugged on the X48 chipset, it's running 2:3 actually which puts it at 894MHz with 7-7-7-20 timings opposed to your 900MHz 7-6-6-18.

Not much of a difference though but still a little advantage.

[fubarswe]

hmm.., I better practise a bit.. :-)

[dinos22]

nice work Pedro

fub....better to wait for a driver that has "normal" CH

low bug CH always happens when new cards are released which is soo frustrating

i just found an E8600 steppin which should work well with LN2 so i gotta revisit some '01 lovin'

hopefully by the time i'm ready the drivers will be sorted out with normal CH too

i cant wait to hit 130K+

'01 rules

[Pedro Rocha]

OK, heres is it: 35K Stock Cards and CPU in the Mini-Cascade



Compare link: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=701283


Here is a pic of the evaporator temperature when running Vantage CPU test