BUT it's a very small percentage of readership that has 30" monitors. I get it that at those resolutions that is where these cards shine and start leaving behind weaker cards. I also have to echo the statements about 2560x1600, being the standard chart, may need some rethinking. I'm not saying power consumption doesn't have a place but it's a distant second to performance that a die shrink offers in stable OC potential. People aren't buying brute force top-end video cards for their power consumption just like a Ferrari isn't purchased for it's gas mileage. How high does it OC, did I miss it somewhere?
I think most when looking at this card would be more interested if it can do 10% overclock rather than 10% power savings. Here we have a die shrink and you are apparently more interested if you can save a few watts rather than how high the OC can go? MadBoris - Monday, Janulink A couple things.Sorry 'bout the rant, just makes me angry! And I wish more people would think the same.
Well I for one can't stand the idea of wasting power on an idle graphics card that could just as well be disabled when I'm not gaming (read: 99% of the time). The worse part is that the technology exists and works (both from ATI and Nvidia) in laptops, so it can't be all that complicated to make a decent version for the desktop. What a damned waste, not to mention the fact that electricity is far from cheap (any of you tried living in Germany?). I mean, in a day and age where everybody's talking about saving our planet, it just seems idiotic to push ever more power hungry graphic cards eating up as much as a 600 liter marine aquarium. I still don't understand why they don't push these Hybrid technologies. Sales haven't been good and no support for dual DVI when using the Hybrid Power mode are the reasons I've heard about. Gorghor - Tuesday, Janulink Actually more of a retorical question than anything else.POST A COMMENT 76 Comments View All Comments The price point for the GTX 285 is $400, but newegg has parts for $380 right now and overclocked variants for not too much more. We've already indicated the changes that have gone into the GTX 285, but here's another look at the updated clock speeds and the test setup. There really isn't anything aside from the GPU that appears different (except the sticker on the card that is). The hardware looks the same as the current GeForce GTX 280. They provided us with overclocked cards, but for this article we underclocked them to stock GTX 285 speeds in order to learn what we can expect from non-overclocked variants. They sent us two GTX 280s for single and SLI testing. As we weren't able to get power tests done time to include in the GTX 295 review, we also have those available today.ĮVGA was kind enough to provide the hardware for this review. Today we have availability on both and test results for the GTX 285. Just last week, NVIDIA announced both the GTX 295 and GTX 285.