Leadtek GeForce GTX 285 1024 MB Review 37

Leadtek GeForce GTX 285 1024 MB Review

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Value and Conclusion

  • The Leadtek GeForce GTX 285 is sold for around $399 online.
  • Takes the single-GPU performance crown
  • Amazing performance / watt
  • Quiet for its performance class
  • Lots of overclocking potential available
  • Support for CUDA / PhysX
  • High price, doesn't justify the extra performance
  • Small performance increase over GTX 280
NVIDIA has successfully implemented their 55 nm production process for the GT200 GPUs resulting in the GTX 285 (and the GTX 295, review soon). The new card offers more performance, consumes less power and is quieter than the previous model. While this may sound nice on paper the improvements are only marginal and they cost you about $70 extra.
The clock increase yields about 5% performance averaged over all benchmarks, with the lead getting bigger the higher the resolutions are. So if you game at 2560x1600 you will see about 10% performance increase, while you will only see 2% at 1024x768.
I like NVIDIA's honest move to call their card GTX 285 which is only a small increase of "five" over the GTX 280, suggesting to the less educated user what he can expect from this product. For NVIDIA the move to 55 nm allows about 10% in die production cost savings which gives them more headroom to combat ATI's offerings with price reductions.
The nice overclocking headroom that we saw on our sample from Leadtek will certainly be used to create special overclocked editions that give you full warranty for the overclock.
Overall the GTX 285 is an amazingly fast card that comes at a premium price just like it has always been if you wanted the latest and greatest.
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