GeForce GTX 295 Performance Tested - nVidia is back on top...

HardOCP, Guru3D, TGH take a look at the GeForce GTX 295 Performance. Anxious to know how this dual GPU video card did when tested against the Radeon HD 4870 X2 running Call of Duty: World At War, FarCry 2, Fallout 3 and Crysis?

No matter what game you'll play with the GeForce GTX 295, you'll play it at dazzling framerates, very high resolutions and the very best in image quality. We have shown you the performance of some pretty hot titles. Surely Left 4 Dead based on the HL-2 source engine is a pretty easy task for any modern graphics card, but the card scaled just so well. And when we look at Far Cry 2, we see more of the pretty jawbreaking performance. The same goes for Call of Duty World at War and obviously the other titles we tested. You will not have to forfeit on image quality settings and you can play in the highest resolutions. But that is of course expected. Also and I do have to mention this, the GTX 295 will be a graphics card for users with a high resolution monitor. The overall performance really starts to kick in after roughly 1920x1200, a resolution where more and more pixels need to be rendered and where GPU limitation normally kicks in pretty fast... So keep in mind that cards like these really start to show off in the higher resolutions.

Compared with the Radeon HD 4870 X2: what ATI released was and still is an incredible product. NVIDIA will finally be able to introduce a very proper answer to that card. Admittedly, ATI was able to squeeze a good amount more performance out of the X2 with their December Catalyst driver. As a result both cards were pretty close to each other in certain games. Fallout 3 was such an example where the Catalyst 8.12 driver made a good step forward in performance and Crossfire compatibility. The winner today of course is the GeForce GTX 295 and considering we were using an early engineering sample card with a very beta driver, things are looking real good for NVIDIA.