asus 4gb gtx295

[clonez]

ASUS has just designed a new monster graphics card that breaks the mold for reference design GeForce GTX 295, called the ASUS MARS 295 Limited Edition. The card, although retains the name "GeForce GTX 295", same device ID, and is compatible with existing NVIDIA drivers, has two huge innovations put in by ASUS, which go far beyond being yet another overclocked GeForce GTX 295: the company used two G200-350-B3 graphics processors, the same ones that make the GeForce GTX 285. The GPUs have all the 240 shader processors enabled, and also have the complete 512-bit GDDR3 memory interface enabled. This dual-PCB monstrosity holds 32 memory chips, and 4 GB of total memory (each GPU accesses 2 GB of it). Apart from these, each GPU system uses the same exact clock speeds as the GeForce GTX 285: 648/1476/2400 MHz...


http://www.techpowerup.com/95445/ASU...hics_Card.html


dual pcb memory madness!!
2x 8-pin power

[lukashill]

Wow, thats a monster!

[gOJDO]

OMG...I was just thinking about 3xGTX 285 2GB...and now this...

[Chad Boga]

But can it play Crysis?

[MomijiTMO]

Yes saw this at TPU not too long ago and went WOW.

Thing is awesome. Being a limited edition, it's going to expensive therefore ASUS can go jump.

[clonez]

if theres a card which can do it, this is it

quad sli gtx285 2gb anyone?

[SKYMTL]

Only 1000 being made. It's one heck of a cards and probably expensive as sin.

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

But can it play Crysis?

On topic, looks awesome. I wonder how 4 gigs will help and can it actually be taken advantage of?

[Talonman]

Wow... What a beast!!

Scored X25,057 in Vantage...

She is a runner!

[Movieman]

and 10,000 people JUST at Xs sitting there with terminal wood looking at this card!

[Chad Boga]

We need benchmarks!!!

It might not be much of an improvement over the existing 2gig cards.

[Movieman]

Just ordered two....J/K

[Talonman]

I would take 1, with a single 285 running dedicated PhysX.

[Kinc]

We need benchmarks!!!

It might not be much of an improvement over the existing 2gig cards.

Here is a quick test done without any insulation on the cards, pots around negative 40. CPU running very safe. Done in under 20 mins to avoid hardware damage.

[K404]

This is the new way to the top of the benchmarks then and despite the no-doubt horrific price will be a "must-have" for any serious bencher



4GB GDDR.....

With some custom software, its technically possible to install games directly onto your GPU...how sweet is that?

[Chad Boga]

Here is a quick test done without any insulation on the cards. CPU running very safe and gpu-pot temp is around -40C. Done in under 20 mins to avoid hardware damage.

I never pay attention to synthetic benches(so I am not able to draw any meaning from that score), so how does that compare to other cards with only 2gig of Ram?

[Talonman]

Other 295's, or other 285's in SLI?

[Chad Boga]

Other 295's, or other 285's in SLI?

I was thinking of single card solutions be it the GTX295 or the 4870x2, but not any SLI scores.

[Kinc]

I never pay attention to synthetic benches(so I am not able to draw any meaning from that score), so how does that compare to other cards with only 2gig of Ram?

It is hard to tell since MARS has a 512-bit interface and for 3DMark that is the most important thing to note here, there is no card to compare it to. But ultra settings for high quality texture games like Crysis or GTA4 it will show a performance gain (in a quad-sli config). Especially compared to the generic 295 with 896MB.

[Talonman]

I was thinking of single card solutions be it the GTX295 or the 4870x2, but not any SLI scores.

This card is (2) 285's in SLI... (with more RAM)

[EagleRock]

Can i have some

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

ohhhhh 2 x 295 scored X24k, that makes a lot more sense , I was thinking like WTF 2 gpus and x24k????


they should call this the GTX 299.9999

[[XC] gomeler]

I want two of those. Too bad they'll be stupidly expensive. This is what the GTX295 should have been though. Now.. what is HWBot going to consider these cards

[LiquidReactor]

Wow. With full 512bit mem interface and standard GTX 285 clock speeds this monster should be at least 15%-20% ahead of stock GTX 295. Very impressive engineering work by Asus. I think I've got a RAGGING CLUE on whose working on 1Ghz HD 4890x2

[Talonman]

This is what the GTX295 should have been

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