There is a cutout at the back of the PCB for the cooler’s blower to get fresh air from.

In the front part of each PCB there is a NVIO chip. An nForce 200 chip, responsible for SLI mode, can be found there, too.

The PCBs are connected with two flexible bridges.

There are matching marks and numbers at the ends of each bridge and on the PCBs for you to connect everything properly. Otherwise, the card won’t start up or won’t work in SLI mode.

The GPUs are both revision B3. Their manufacture dates differ by one week only: 48th and 47th week of 2008. The third lines of the markings differ greatly but their meaning is only clear to Nvidia’s engineers.

Each GPU incorporates 240 unified shader processors, 80 texture-mapping units and 28 raster back-ends. Thus, the GPUs of the GeForce GTX 295 are in between the GeForce GTX 280/250 and GeForce GTX 260 (216SP) in terms of resources. The XFX card has GPU frequencies of 576/1242MHz, i.e. exactly those of the reference sample. The company also offers faster, pre-overclocked GeForce GTX 295 models. The GPU frequencies are dropped to 300/600MHz in 2D mode.

Each PCB carries 896 megabytes of GDDR3 memory.

These Hynix H5RS5223CFR N0C chips have an access time of 1 nanosecond and a rated frequency of 2000MHz. The card’s memory frequency is indeed 2000MHz in 3D mode and 200MHz in 2D mode.

Here is a summary of the card’s specs: