GeForce GTX 285: 55nm Enabling Higher Performance
by Derek Wilson on January 15, 2009 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
FarCry 2 Performance
FarCry 2 can lean AMD and NVIDIA depending on the area of the game tested. We tried to go with a fairly balanced test.
The GTX 285 can must a 10% performance improvement here, and it does still trail the 4870 X2 which has (again) over an 18% performance advantage for the slightly greater than 13% increased cost.
There are three performance teirs here. We've got the single GPU solutions in the bottom teir, the two single card dual-GPU offering bunched up with GTX 260 SLI in the middle and GTX 280 and 285 SLI taking the lead. The GeForce GTX 285 holds it's own against all the other single GPU setups.
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crimson117 - Thursday, January 15, 2009 - link
If we tell him, will he help us stop Fatass?Stonedofmoo - Thursday, January 15, 2009 - link
...Could Anantech post a review of the 55nm GTX 260's? In other reviews I have seen it appears the 65nm & 55nm GTX 260's use the same amount of idle power which is odd and at odds with the pattern we have seen with the 285&295 cards at 55nm.Stonedofmoo - Thursday, January 15, 2009 - link
Thank you for posting a more comprehensive review this time compared to the GTX 295 review posted earlier this week.The power and heat statistics are very useful and helps provide the information we need to make a decision.
Keep up the good work!
SiliconDoc - Monday, January 19, 2009 - link
I note Derek doesn't mention if PhysX is enabled or disabled in the NV CP, nor in Crysis for instance.I do wonder - since it could take a few frames from the NV cards. I wonder why that whole deal is SILENCE.
I noted one comment "still shoving PhysX down our throats".
I know I used to see HERE, "PhysX is disabled" before they got to the fps testing.
At other sites, they claim "enthusiast settings" in Crysis for instance, even on a few charts here - meaning as the charts here say and as it is misspelled here "Physics" is ON.
So, I wonder how that whole deal is in this bench set.
I suppose it's left on for NV, then when the red card turn comes, a simple click and no problem - no PhysX - and no couple or a dozen framerate hit either.
Sorry, I certainly can't say good job.
hk6900 - Saturday, February 21, 2009 - link
Remove yourself from the gene pool, retardTheDoc9 - Thursday, January 15, 2009 - link
This review was much better than the original gtx 295 review. Every question I had about these cards was answered and I was able to decide which will be my next purchase.