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XFX 285 GTX 1GB Review - NVIDIA GTX 285 1GB tested |
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Written by Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009 |
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Page 3 - Testing methods
For the video card tests we piled up a rig that has enough power to allow using the cards at their full potential. While at the same time it is being available for even the more common users. In some cases only extremely overclocked quad-core processor is the only way to utilize the full potential of some top model video cards with two cores, but the gathering of such results would be rather pointless if just very few of our readers could do the same with their own machines at home. And thus, these are the specifications of the machine we used:
For the tests we used Windows Vista Ultimate x64 as our OS in order to take advantage of the full 4GB of RAM. Cards were tested with the latest drivers available on the according AMD and NVIDIA websites at the time of the review (not all cards were tested at the same time). The list of cards we tested is as follows:
- GeForce GTX 295 (NVIDIA ForceWare 181.20 WHQL) 1792MB
- XFX GTX 285 (NVIDIA ForceWare 181.20 WHQL) 1GB
- GeForce GTX 280 (NVIDIA ForceWare 177.41 WHQL) 1GB
- GeForce GTX 260 (NVIDIA ForceWare 181.20 WHQL) 896MB
- Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB (ATI Catalyst 8.12 WHQL)
- Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB (ATI Catalyst 8.12 WHQL)
- Radeon HD 4870 512MB (ATI Catalyst 8.8 WHQL)
- Radeon HD 4850 512MB (ATI Catalyst 8.8 WHQL)
- Crysis v1.2.1 (DirectX 10)
- World in Conflict v1.009 (DirectX 10)
- Unreal Tournament 3 v1.3 (DirectX 10)
- Enemy Territory Quake Wars v1.5 (OpenGL)
- Devil May Cry 4 (DirectX 10)
- FarCry 2 (DirectX 10)
- Furmark (OpenGL)
- 3DMark Vantage (DirectX 10)
Tests were ran at the most popular gaming resolutions: 1680x1050, 1920x1200, at different details settings, filtration and anti-aliasing with each test in order to show what exactly is to be expected in certain mode and to reveal the weak and powerful sides of each card.
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