NVIDIA lifts lid on world's most powerful single and dual GPU graphics cards

Still looking for a way to squeeze more frames per second out of Crysis Warhead, Call of Duty 5 or Far Cry 2? NVIDIA has the answer in the form of the world's fastest single and dual GPU graphics cards - all you need is the cash!

Check out the NVIDIA GTX 285 and 295 gallery

The new cards are the single GPU GeForce GTX 285 and the dual GPU GeForce GTX 295. Early reviews of the GTX 295 seems to indicate that it's a monster card - for a price. Expect to pay around $500 for the GTX 295, which is a lot of money for a graphics card, though that said, top-end GPUs have always been pricey!

GTX 285

GPU Engine Specs:

• Processor Cores - 240
• Graphics Clock - 648 MHz
• Processor Clock - 1476 MHz
• Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) - 51.8 
• Memory Specs:
• Memory Clock - 1242 MHz
• Standard Memory Config - 1 GB GDDR3
• Memory Interface Width - 512-bit 
• Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) - 159.0

Misc:

• Maximum Digital Resolution - 2560x1600 
• Maximum VGA Resolution - 2048x1536 
• Height - 4.376 inches (111 mm) 
• Length - 10.5 inches (267 mm) 
• Width - Dual-slot 
• Maximum GPU Temperature - 105  C 
• Maximum Graphics Card Power - 183  W 
• Minimum System Power Requirement - 550  W 
• Supplementary Power Connectors - 6-pin x2 
• 2-way and 3-way SLI ready

GTX 295

GPU Engine Specs:

• Processor Cores - 480 (240 per GPU) 
• Graphics Clock - 576 MHz
• Processor Clock - 1242 MHz
• Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) - 92.2 

Memory Specs:

• Memory Clock - 999 MHz
• Standard Memory Config - 1792 MB GDDR3 (896MB per GPU) 
• Memory Interface Width 896-bit - (448-bit per GPU) 
• Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) - 223.8

Misc:

• Maximum Digital Resolution - 2560x1600 
• Maximum VGA Resolution - 2048x1536 
• Height - 4.376 inches (111 mm) 
• Length - 10.5 inches (267 mm) 
• Width - Dual-slot 
• Maximum GPU Temperature - 105  C 
• Maximum Graphics Card Power - 289  W 
• Minimum System Power Requirement - 680  W 
• Supplementary Power Connectors - 6-pin & 8-pin 
• 2-way quad-GPU SLI ready