NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295: Leading the Pack
by Derek Wilson on January 12, 2009 5:15 PM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Crysis Warhead Performance
This game is another killer at 2560x1600. Only multi-GPU solutions will cut it at this resolution with Gamer settings and Enthusiast shaders enabled. Once (if) the 64-bit patch is released, we should see some general performance improvement as well, but graphics limitations are the name of the game here. Crysis was tough on PCs, and while Warhead is a bit more optimized, this one is still a system killer.
With a 30" display, a minimum of a GTX 295 is required for playability with the settings we chose. Of course, dropping the settings down a bit will certainly help out, but even on smaller panel sizes a high end single card will be desireable for the highest image quality settings. Luckily for fans, running in DX9 mode with slightly lower settings is very playable and not that much of a sacrifice.
Crysis Warhead seems to favor SLI over CrossFire as the single 4870 1GB leads the GTX 260 while the GTX 260 SLI wins out over the 4870 X2. This isn't so much a question of what architecture handles the game better as what multi-GPU solution handles the game better. Either way, it comes out in NVIDIA's favor.
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SiliconDoc - Saturday, January 17, 2009 - link
Congratulations to ati for releasing the 4580 in August that gets beat by 2 year old standard and hopped up 8800 nvidia cores. I just love new technology, don't you ?SiliconDoc - Thursday, January 15, 2009 - link
Of course you are, you all are, none of you have any driver issues on your red cards, you all say so.So no, I won't shutup - I will isten to your lies, and respond to them.
It isn't reasonable at ALL to claim no driver issues on a 4870x2 - it';s a flat out lie from the word go.
Hxx - Friday, January 16, 2009 - link
Siliconduc,I said that a 4870x2 can be had for 400 after mir learn to read next time. Both companies have driver and crash issues with their cards, Nvidia is not an exception. That is especially if you run vista 64 bit so its unfair to judge ATI based on that. Second, Nvidia is known for overpricing their cards and the gtx295 is no exception. Third, the gtx 295 DOES NOT wipe the floor with 4870 x2, its slightly faster, like 5-10% in the majority of the games, not all of them. There isn't any game out there that will be playable on a gtx 295 but not on a 48700 x2, NONE, regardless of your display resolution. So why pay 100 extra? Especially since the life span of these videocards its so short that you would need a better card every year if you wanna keep maxing out ur games. So that's why i consider this card pointless. Because your paying extra for physics ( which is used by a handful of games) and is not noticeably faster than a 4870 x2. As for the power consumption, if you have the money to throw on either one, than you don't care about the difference in wattage.
kumquatsrus - Monday, January 12, 2009 - link
great, all i have to do now is find me a 30 inch monitor to go along with this card, lol.SiliconDoc - Saturday, January 17, 2009 - link
How about overclocking did you say - strangely missing in the review for some unknown "reason". lol AMAZING.Let's use vr-zone, at least they included overclocking since the GTX295 DOES SO WELL, so much better than the already frying an egg or your fingers 4870x2 45 more watts used in 3d and 65 more watts used in idle powerhogggg - you know that card you couldn't wait to get for 6 months - before NVidia trounced it.
" The GTX 295 lends itself fairly well to overclocking.
Reference Speed
(Mhz)
Max. Overclocked
Speed (Mhz)
Percentage
Increase
Core Clock
576
670
16.32%
Shader Clock
1242
1444
16.26%
Memory Clock
999
1220
22.12%
Crysis Warhead fps: 30.91 standard 35.74 OVERCLOCKED
A GOOD SOLID 15% GAIN , great overclock scaling !
I guess they "forgot" here. Maybe I should read it all again, about expensive monitors, since I didn't see the usual overclocking drop down page tab... huh... it's strangely MISSING ENTIRELY.
http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-gtx-295...
SiliconDoc - Monday, January 12, 2009 - link
That was never an argument for the 4870x2.I knew though the red blooded geekicans would make sure they pointed it out over and over in their latest GTX295 reviews , top front, and center.
It's AMAZING.