With XFX have already had both the ATI brands and also their own NVIDIA contract but more on the ATI mode the card manufacturer they have started their production of the graphics card and upcoming their 4870X2 flagship. But still the NVIDIA cards are still up to the task of going frame for frame against the ATI rivals but there still have some hits and misses in some of the graphics department, still holding the old technology rather than having the dual graphics GPU built in the single PCB die and work it through there, but for some reasons they have the GTx295 to be fixed in to a large double PCB board wack in on SLI and make it a marketing breaking through.
But is still uses the same concept but while we get used to it and NVIDIA try to differentiate itself from the rivals but XFX have given up the GTX295 into their xXx series but it is fast enough to counter the raw performance of the 4870X2. Still the same armored specs a GPU clock counting on 576MHz processing speed and also 2000MHz memory bus speed able to go head to head with the GDDR5 memory in bandwidth but still has some problems coming over that GDDR5 memory looks far better and yield better resolution buffer and even a much lower energy power consumption, but being a quite hungry card from the 4870X2 is more on the GPU’s working in a period of time gives it’s high score of heating and power outages. Overall design of the board is enclosed with a plastic black mesh to counter also the vibration of the fan plus having the cooler sandwiched between the two SLI boards that houses the two GPUs each sharing 896Mb of Ram in each board making the total redundant memory of 1,792MB. But overall the board reveals that sometimes the board only has some limited alterations of the reference board design so there is no real difference until you added a water-block in order to change and make it a more enthusiast grade card.
While performance score show it is up to the task for most graphics card solutions, going 46fsp in Crysis in medium to high resolution and also going well in 3d mark vantage going 20,000 point overall in the high res apps test. While the Physics drive of the graphics can be used in some games but most of all it is useless when you are talking in general gaming purposes and open GL and source games, they normally don’t use it but is does come in handy when it comes to image quality. The XFX GTX295 is a rather mixed card but XFX really make a good board modification out of it, with some good (speed and higher bandwidth) and some bad (a higher pricing form the next competition and very limited use over-clocking)it really comes to the price you are going to pay for it.
