Tuesday, December 23rd 2008
GeForce GTX 285 Pitted Against GeForce GTX 280
Following the industry-wide launch of the new 55nm GeForce GTX 260, NVIDIA would launch its fastest single-GPU graphics card: the GeForce GTX 285. This card is based on the 55nm G200b core. It has identical specifications to the GeForce GTX 280, except for its higher reference clock speeds, and lower power consumption. Due to these, NVIDIA seems to have given it the "285" number, while the 55nm GTX 260 continues to hold its "260" due to identical reference clock speeds as its 65nm counterparts.
ChipHell sourced two NVIDIA company slides which show some of the specifications of GeForce GTX 285 and its expected level of performance in comparison to the GeForce GTX 280. There is also a little mention about the testing conditions: a Core i7-based machine running 32-bit Windows Vista. Across the various synthetic and real-world gaming tests, the GeForce GTX 285 is rated to perform over 10% faster compared to the GTX 280. In games such as Crysis Warhead, Call of Duty: World at War, and FarCry 2, the leads were below 10%.
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ChipHell sourced two NVIDIA company slides which show some of the specifications of GeForce GTX 285 and its expected level of performance in comparison to the GeForce GTX 280. There is also a little mention about the testing conditions: a Core i7-based machine running 32-bit Windows Vista. Across the various synthetic and real-world gaming tests, the GeForce GTX 285 is rated to perform over 10% faster compared to the GTX 280. In games such as Crysis Warhead, Call of Duty: World at War, and FarCry 2, the leads were below 10%.
45 Comments on GeForce GTX 285 Pitted Against GeForce GTX 280
I wonder why nVidia decided to up the clocks with the 285, but not the new 55nm 260. It seems to be that a clock speed increase would be welcomed with the 260, as even the 65nm parts had a lot of headroom for overclocking. Though maybe nVidia didn't want to close the gap between the 260 and 280, giving its partners the ability to release overclocked cards without killing 280/285 sales.
the GTX285 should be a beast.
whats that FPS?
its like 0.1fps faster than the previous gen?
So basically the preliminary benchmarks show that the 285 is just (average) 10% faster in these runs.
The left columns represent the GTX280's performance, which has been set at 1.00, the right graphs are the GTX285's performance, which shows how much over 1 it manages. So if the right graph is at 1.10, that means the GTX285 performed 10% better than the GTX285, if it is at 1.25 then it is 25% better.
One should wonder what the clock rates are between cards when shown slides like this.
should be good for temps and oc headroom, especially for the v-modders out there.seems they need to wait for GT300 to integrate GDDR5 compatibility, however anybody like the sound of 2+ gb of 512-bit GDDR5? hello 200+ GB/s bandwidth easy.