Just recently the first pictures and details of Asus' GTX 295 Mars have been published on the internet. The graphics card combines two Geforce GTX 285s in a single device - with a sandwich layout like it is used for the GTX 295. Each of the two GPUs has access to 2 GiByte GDDR3 VRAM via a 512 Bit interface. Thus the GTX 295 Mars has an impressive overall video memory amount of 4 GiByte. Asus has limited the card to 1,000 units. A price has not been released.



At Nordichardware the first benchmark results of the cards have been published already. But overclocker Kinc didn't just use a "normal” Quad-SLI setup but used liquid nitrogen to increase the clock speeds of the two GTX 295 Mars to 833 MHz (GPU) and 1,279 MHz (VRAM). In combination with a Core i7 Extreme Edition 965 running at 4,785 MHz this was enough to reach 25,057 points in 3DMark Vantage (GPU Score: 24,879; CPU Score: 28,992) - a new World Record.