World Exclusive Mushkin UltimateFX GeForce GTX 295 Review

Posted by: James Clewer (gt_junkie) on: 09/08/2009 05:39 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]

Packaging and features

Well i must say that first impressions most definitely count for something. The UltimateFX GeForce GTX 295 comes in a gorgeous wooden box which is very neatly finished with chromed hinges and latches and the UltimateFX logo on the top. Additional card details are shown on some subtle stickers attached to the front of the box itself.

The gorgeous box the 295 is supplied in.

Inside the card is protected by the quintessential 'anti-static' bag and the whole lot is encased within a carefully cut out foam section. Other accompanying goodies are a driver CD, HD audio passthrough cable, DVI to VGA adapter and a DVI to HDMI adapter.

Box open showing contents.

Driver CD, audio passthrough cable and DVI adapters to connect VGA and HDMI cables.

As with the dual PCB GTX 295 the card is comprised of two cores. It has 240 stream processors per core making a total of 480.

It’s default core and shader speeds are identical to the dual PCB card running at 576mhz and 1242mhz respectively. Only the memory frequency is different at 1008mhz - so virtually identical really.

The numbers alone are incredibly impressive. As the very newest card in the NVidia range it provides a staggering spec sheet.

Specifications of the GTX 295 when compared to other cards in NVidia's GPU range.

As the evolution of the dual PCB'd GTX 295 it is ultimately identical. It has the same number of stream processors, same amount of memory, same memory interface, it uses the same 55nm process as the previous version and uses the same amount of power too - it's performance will be the same when run at the same speeds.

Front of the UltimateFX GTX 295.

Rear of the UltimateFX GTX 295.

The cooling solution has been changed as a result of the single PCB design. In many ways it echoes the older 7900GTX cooler of days gone by! A clean and simple design dominated by a large centrally located cooling fan.