NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295: Leading the Pack
by Derek Wilson on January 12, 2009 5:15 PM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Age of Conan Performance
We've added a bunch of new tests this time around, but we decided to keep a few games around. Age of Conan is one of these, and it's one of the games we've consistently tested that favors AMD hardware. As we can see not much has changed this time around either. The none of the NVIDIA hardware can keep up with the AMD Radeon HD 4870 X2 in this test. As for NVIDIA versus NVIDIA, the GeForce GTX 295 splits the difference between the GTX 260 SLI and GTX 280 SLI setups.
With this game, at 2560x1600 and our quality settings (not even the highest possible), a multi-GPU solution is required for higher than 30fps gameplay. The nature of the game makes it playable at slightly lower framerates, but the safe bet is on lowering settings or getting more than one GPU. We don't expect that the GTX 285 will be able to keep up with the Radeon HD 4870 1GB either.
We're also still waiting for the DirectX 10 version of the game to come out, and we will transition to that version when we are able.
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cactusdog - Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - link
SiliconDoc, you sound like a tool.TheDoc9 - Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - link
Actually while I don't agree with everything silcondoc says. I also read some very lite well hidden bias in this article. I simply called it indifference in one of my posts.zebrax2 - Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - link
you know who really likes a certain team...plain bullshit. if they really wanted to favor the red team they would have rigged the test. you have no basis on accusing them and I'm sure that they have some reason for not adding it.
if you don't like what they write just go to another site
SiliconDoc - Tuesday, January 13, 2009 - link
If you don't like what I wrote, follow your own advice and leave.How about it there fella - if that's your standard, take off.
If not, make excuses.
I think it's Derek, to be honest, and specific.
That's fine, I think not noting it - and not being able to adjust for it, IS a problem.
You cannot really expect someone that is into hardware and goes that deep into testing to wind up in the middle.
So use your head.
I used mine and pointed out what was disturbing, and if that helps a few think clearly on their purchases, no matter their decision, that's good by me.
However, your comment was not helpful.
Goty - Monday, January 12, 2009 - link
Uses less power than... what?By bit-tech's numbers, the GTX295's power consumption is about 70W more than a single GTX280 and only about 40W less than a 4870X2 at full load.
SiliconDoc - Saturday, January 17, 2009 - link
Oh, let's not have any whining about where's the linkhttp://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-gtx-295...
Not that you ever thought about doing that at all - although I'm sure others did.
SiliconDoc - Saturday, January 17, 2009 - link
lol- wrong comparison - again...." By bit-tech's numbers, the GTX295's power consumption is about 70W more than a single GTX280 and only about 40W less than a 4870X2 at full load. "
Let's correct that.
" By vr-zone's numbers, the GTX295's power consumption is about 60W LESS than a single 4870x2 at idle, and about 45W LESS than a 4870X2 at full load. THE GTX295 stomps the 4870x2 into the GROUND when it comes to power savings, and BETTER PERFORMANCE. "
There we go , now the red ragers can cuss and call names again - because the truth hurts them, so, so bad.
AdamK47 - Monday, January 12, 2009 - link
It's interesting you got the game working with these drivers. The game crashes for most with these.Goty - Monday, January 12, 2009 - link
Doesn't the documentation state that the 8.12 hotfix is only needed for 4850 crossfire systems?Marlin1975 - Monday, January 12, 2009 - link
A $500 video card that used 289watts of power. Just what every one wants.I was happy with AMDs new video cards. Not because they were at the top of all the charts. But that they offered a lot of power for a fair price and did not use to much power. Maybe some geek that wants to "brag" about spending $500 on a video card will get this. But for the other 99.9% of users this brings nothing to usefull table.