GeForce GTX 295 Vs. GTX 275 SLI: When Two Are Better Than One
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Chris Angelini
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Benchmark Results: Stalker: Clear Sky
Stalker definitely favors the two GeForce GTX 275s at their default clocks, offering a greater than 10% performance increase at 2560x1600 over the GTX 295. Even between the similarly-clocked 275s/295, there seems to be an advantage to going the SLI route.
The most striking result here is the drop from 1920x1200 to 2560x1600. The same bug seen in Crysis manifests itself here as well. Beyond that, though, the like-clocked 275s/295 turn in similar performance, but are both easily bested by the GeForce GTX 275s as you’d buy them: running 633/1,404/1,134 MHz.
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Chris Angelini is an Editor Emeritus at Tom's Hardware US. He edits hardware reviews and covers high-profile CPU and GPU launches.
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imrul "Intel Core i7 920 Extreme (Bloomfield)" (page 3)Reply
there's no extreme version of i7 920, nor is it bloomfield... -
reasonablevoice What the hell is up with the underclocked cards out performing the others in that H.A.W.X.Reply
Can the author of the article comment with what they think is going on there? -
cangelini reasonablevoiceWhat the hell is up with the underclocked cards out performing the others in that H.A.W.X.Can the author of the article comment with what they think is going on there?Reply
Happened in WiC w/o AA as well. Difficult to say went on there, but the results are repeatable. Probably more important, though, is that when more of an emphasis is put on the graphics subsystem, you see those stock-clocked boards take the lead, as we'd expect. -
avatar_raq 1.Very good article, unlike some other author's articles in this site, this article is solid (starting from the test system down to the conclusion) and interesting, this is what I always expect from Chris.Reply
2.As for the strange issue in L4D, HAWX and WIC where the slower 275s beat the faster ones....Odd indeed. Is there any chance the normally clocked cards automatically clocked down to 2D mode or somthing in-game? In other words the GPUs usage dropped due to the CPU bottleneck or whatever, and the cards' driver decided to clockdown to save energy! I've seen nvidia and ati cards do that. The monitoring utility of rivatuner could have revealed such things since it shows real-time clocks..BTW what software did you use to downclock?
It would be funny to consider downclocking our cards to 'gain' performance!!
3.I hope the new (single PCB) 295 will drop in larger quantities, perhaps it will be more practical than the current one, and will tip the balnce here in its favor.
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Can you put the "online shop" section underneath the "Next" button for the next page...its really annoying and inconvenient to have it positioned within the article as it seems to be.Reply
Thanks
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JeanLuc rags_20Please benchmark in Very High.Reply
I noticed that to, if I owned that kind of hardware I would be playing every game at the highest settings even if it is Crysis.