NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 & 295 Video Cards Tested: Expensive But Awesome

NVIDIA’s recently shrunken 55nm GT200 GPU has found its way into the GeForce GTX 285 and GTX 295 video cards, and those cards have ambled onto The Tech Report’s testing bench. Each card takes advantage of a different aspect of the new GT200 version: the single-chip GTX 285 benefits from the increased speed, while the dual-chip GTX 295 uses the smaller die to fit two GPUs onto one card.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285, then, gets clock boosts all round, with the main GPU clock up to 648MHz, shaders up to 1476MHz, and memory up to 1242MHz. That’s faster than its GTX 280 predecessor, but with lower power requirements (and therefore a less tricky PSU socket). Meanwhile the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 manages not-quite-as-much power as two 285’s, thanks to the loss of a ROP partition, but still plenty; you can also repurpose one of the chips to handle PhysX calculations.

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