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Review: NVIDIA (GIGABYTE) GeForce GTX 285 - another high-end contender

by Parm Mann on 15 January 2009, 14:00 3.4

Tags: GV-N285-1GH-B, Gigabyte (TPE:2376), NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), PC

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Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 1,680x1,050 4xAA MaxAF
BFG GeForce GTX 295Inno3D GeForce GTX 280Inno3D GeForce GTX 260 OCGIGABYTE GeForce GTX 285Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2Sapphire Radeon HD 4870Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2
85.2370.0464.4676.4672.5954.2277.56


Far Cry 2 1,920x1,200 4xAA MaxAF
BFG GeForce GTX 295Inno3D GeForce GTX 280Inno3D GeForce GTX 260 OCGIGABYTE GeForce GTX 285Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2Sapphire Radeon HD 4870Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2
82.7361.2856.3767.8368.1249.0574.5


Far Cry 2 2,560x1,600 4xAA MaxAF
BFG GeForce GTX 295Inno3D GeForce GTX 280Inno3D GeForce GTX 260 OCGIGABYTE GeForce GTX 285Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2Sapphire Radeon HD 4870Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2
66.5142.3838.6347.647.7632.9356.15


Ubisoft's Far Cry 2 puts the GPUs hard at work, but at 1,920x1,200, the GeForce GTX 285 is able to retain a comfortable 9.6 per cent lead over its 65nm predecessor, the GeForce GTX 280.

As far as single-GPU solutions are concerned, it's untouchable.