EVGA GeForce GTX 295 1792MB GDDR3 Review

"The GTX 295 show us that Nvidia is truly serious about recapturing the performance crown from ATI but the question that begs to be answered is: did they succeed? Well, I am going to have to say yes and no. The EVGA GTX 295 definitely seems to live up to the hype by displaying absolutely amazing framerates in the majority of the benchmarks which in itself would mean it is the fastest card on the planet, right? Not so fast because some of our Extreme IQ benchmarks showed performance that was less than optimal and illustrated one key area in which Nvidia could have improved this particular card: memory allocation. 2GB of memory may have put it head and shoulders above the HD 4870 X2…but we will never know and can only theorize about what the end results would have been. This doesn’t stop the GTX 295 from being the current card to beat but it does throw a bit of a cold towel into the Nvidia celebrations."