EVGA GTX 295 1792MB GDDR3 Video Card Review

Extreme IQ Testing: GTX 295 vs HD 4870 X2

Naturally, when you spend over $500 on a graphics card, you want it to kick ass and take names at extremely high resolutions and image quality settings. In these following tests, we pitted the GTX 295 against the one card it hopesto beat to become the king of the hill. Let’s check out how it does.


Fallout 3


This is the first game we are testing here with 8xAA and things don’t go too well for the EVGA GTX 295 since the HD 4870 X2 is really able to put the hurt on. It looks like the 896MB of memory per core may be a limiting factor here.


Far Cry 2 DX9 / DX10


Making heads or tails out of these two results is next to impossible since they are at two different ends of the spectrum. On one hand we see the HD 4870 X2 winning in DX9 but when the DX10 rendering path is used, things turn around very quickly with the GTX 295 walking all over the ATI card.


Left 4 Dead


In Left 4 Dead, the GTX 295 is able to keep slightly ahead of the HD 4870 X2 when it comes to average framerates but the real story is in the minimum results.


Need For Speed Undercover


It seems the EVGA GTX 295 gets better and better as the resolution and IQ settings are increased in NFS: UC and this holds true in this test as well. It should be noted however that ATI has stated they do not yet have Crossfire set up in this game on the 8.12 drivers.


Crysis: Warhead DX9 / DX10


Well, well this is definitely interesting. It seems like the extra memory on the HD 4870 X2 is paying for itself in spades. Unfortunately, neither card could muster the performance to eke out playable performance at these settings so the win for ATI is somewhat hollow.