EVGA GTX 285 mini review

[MrHydes]

EVGA is an award-winning company[1][2] that primarily produces NVIDIA based
consumer computer hardware.[3] Founded in July of 1999, it is currently
headquartered in Brea, California.


EVGA GTX 85

Stream Processors 240
Bus .................512bit
samsung GDDR3 0.8ns
ROP....................32
GLFOPS................
Vram..................1GB
pixel Fillrate........ 20.7
Bandwidth........... 159
Texture Fill.......... 47.4
PCI-Express 2.0

Core clock......... 648MHz
Memory clock....... 1242MHz (2484MHz effective)
Shader clock........1476MHz

• 2nd generation Nvidia® Unified Architecture
• Full Microsoft® DirectX 10
• Nvidia® 2-way and 3-way SLI Ready
• Nvidia® Pure video™ HD Technology
• Nvidia® PhysX Ready
• Nvidia® CUDA technology
• PCI Express® 2.0 Support

Interface
- HDTV
- DVI-I
- DVI-I
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Hardware:

1. Motherboard: Asus Rampage extreme intel X48
2. Processor: Intel C2D E8600@ 4.02GHz
3. Ram: Cellshock blue PC1500 1866MHz @ 1600MHz (7-7-7-14) 1T
4. Videocard: EVGA GTX 285
5. soundcard: Creative X-FI Titanium PCI-EX
6. PSU: Corsair HX1000W
7. Cooling: Watercooling

as you can see the 285 is a little bit different of 280, with the evga version
the back actually is uncovered, unlike the 280, this for me was a surprise.
and explains too the price tag diference beetween 280 and 285.







this card needs both a 6-pin and 6-pin power connector, unlike the 280 that demands 6-pin and 8-pin power conector



Nvidia really scores in the cooling department, 36ºc idle for such a hughe
chip like GT200 even being 55nm, because this chip doesn't seem to suffer a size drop from de 65nm version




GTX285 PCB, CHIP COOLER




















CRYSIS

Windows Xp 32bits
DirectX 9






GTX 280

602MHz // 2214MHz // 1296MHz at 1900x1200

• Minim : 33.47 FPS
• Maximo: 53.9 FPS
• Avergae: 44FPS

GTX 285

648MHz // 2484MHz // 1476MHz at 1900x1200

• minim: 36.29 FPS
• Maximo: 59.21 FPS
• Average: 47.94 FPS

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GRAND THIEF AUTO IV

Windows Xp 32bits
DirectX 9

GTX 280

• Average FPS: 50.95
• Duration: 37.09 sec
• CPU Usage: 91%
• System memory usage: 57%
• Video memory usage: 97%
  
  
• Video Mode: 1920 x 1200 (60 Hz)
• Texture Quality: High
• Render Quality: High
• View Distance: 29
• Detail Distance: 100

GTX 285

• Average FPS: 54.24
• Duration: 37.13 sec
• CPU Usage: 79%
• System memory usage: 56%
• Video memory usage: 97%
  
  
• Video Mode: 1920 x 1200 (60 Hz)
• Graphics Settings
• Texture Quality: High
• Render Quality: High
• View Distance: 29
• Detail Distance: 100

*Both cards at default clocks


CRYSIS WARHEAD

Windows Xp 32bits
DirectX 9

GTX 280

602MHz // 2214MHz // 1296MHz at 1900x1200




*Minim : 26.77 FPS
*Maximo: 33.06 FPS
*Average: 26.92 FPS




GTX 285

602MHz // 2214MHz // 1296MHz at 1900x1200




*Minim: 20.93FPS
*Maximo: 35.84 FPS
*Average: 29.35 FPS


3DMARK06



i've step both cards at same Clocks 621MHz // 2270MHz // 1357MHz, same bios config (voltages, frequencies) and runned at very same conditions, and the results are:

EVGA GTX280: 17038 marks
EVGA GTX285: 17477 marks

as you can see, and i can't explain why but cpu score more 71 marks
and the total diference: 439

i'll try this test later but overclocking GPU & CPU, to make sure
that this scores are real.




Overclocking: