Fermi / GF100 finally hits!

It’s safe to say that nVidia has had a hard time lately. Announced last year, we were meant to see these cards in 2009, but instead the delays kept coming and it’s slipped to the end of Q1 for the “launch” and Q2 before people can stump up their hard-earned cash for one. That being said, just what’s it like? Is it worth the wait, or as I like to put it, is the juice worth the squeeze?

nVidia website for GTX 400-series

Reviews

Pre-Orders

Dabs GTX 470 @ £300-330
Dabs GTX 480 @ £440-450
Scan 470 & 480 470 @ £300-330, 480 @ £430-500
Overclockers 470 & 480 470 @ £310-350, 480 @ £450-480
Novatech 470 & 480 470 @ £320-360, 480 @ £480-500

Manufacturer Pages

EVGA | EVGA HydroCopper

Sacha35 takes a good look at one of Asus’ newest graphics card, the ROG Matrix GTX 285. We’ve seen Matrix cards before, and this one looks just as good.

Head over to the forums to check out Sacha35’s review of the Asus ROG Matrix GTX 285.

http://www.benchtec.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=4784

GV-N285-1GH-B

Ok today we are looking at the Gigabyte Nvidia GTX 285 1GB.

Let’s have a look at what you get in the box.

As you can see you get Farcry2, 2 dvi converters and also 2 Molex to 6pin pci-e converters.

Let’s have a closer look at the card.

Note that this card uses 2x 6 pin pcie connections. A single 55nm core doesn’t need 8 pin.

Ok now let’s have a look at a few results. I did the first tests with an Intel E7200 @ 4Ghz.

Here are the cards stock clocks.

Aquamark at stock.

3DMark03 at stock

Then I tested the max the core, memory and shadders would go to.

Core maxed out at 780mhz.

Memory at 1470Mhz.

Shadders at 1650Mhz.

Ok after finding where card maxes out at I thought I would see if the card would run at the clocks of the pre-overclocked cards which are available. At the time of writing this the fastest card available is at 720Mhz on the core 1620Mhz on the shadders and the memory at 1386Mhz.

As you can see it passed 3dmark 03 at the higher clocks. Now lets see if its stable and see what the temps are doing. I found 70% on the fan to be the highest before it was really loud. So used that setting for this test.

Passed 10 mins at full load.
As you can see there was a steady climb to around 80c then it leveled out.

If running this card in a cased system I would say those temps and clocks are really the max. That’s a £100 saving made though from overclocking the card up to the clocks of 720/1620/1386. A very impressive card. Benching results will be coming soon.

Many thanks to Gigabyte for the support

jabski