Even after all this time, Crysis continues to punish graphics cards with high details and minimal optimization. While most of the world is more interested in the more efficient Crysis Warhead version, inclusion of this older title in our GTX 295 Quad-SLI evaluation caused it to reappear in today’s review.

While the test appeared to run smoothly on the GTX 285 at our lowest-tested Crysis settings, occasional stutters would get the player fragged in a real game. The only good option for a single-GPU card would be to reduce detail levels, although the dual-GPU GeForce GTX 295 could make 1920x1200 pixel game play possible for buyers with more discretionary income.

Players can forget about using very high details with AA and AF enabled in Crysis, as even the dual-GPU cards suffered enough stutter to cause an occasional surprise ending. The GTX 285 edged out the GTX 280, but with all cards producing unplayable frame rates, this win is purely academic.
that 9 series is better than the gtx?
I'd also expect much better power-savings from the 285, given smaller 55nm die (yep, even with overclocking).
What kind of nonce poofy queer way of speaking is this?
check it out:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/geforce-gtx-295,review-31470.html
cheers,
bill
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Whats the bottom line. I aint interested in 5% increase.
Im interested in new hardware giving me 30% increase in performance.
Talk about milking it for all its worth.
They could have at least added GDDR5?? And also ATi are planning a 40nm die for this year, nVidia should have skipped 55nm.
40nm/45nm is pretty well mainstream now. Can get nearly twice the number of transistors on a 40nm design compared to a 65nm design. Power consumption per transistor at the same clock speed is roughly halved as well.
So at 40nm, a GPU design twice as complex as the 280 and clocked at the same speed should consume about the same power..............
Intel Core i7 920 2.66Ghz (Nehalem)
Akasa AK-967 Nero Direct Contact Heatpipe CPU Cooler
Asus Rampage II Extreme Intel X58
Corsair 6GB DDR3 1600MHz Triple Channel DDR3
Asus GeForce GTX 285 1024MB GDDR3
Why am i not getting similar results?
Asus p6t
Corsair Dominator 6G 1866Mhz
Asus gtx 285
Velociraptor 300G
3d mark vantage score: P14580
Cpu Score : 45130
Gpu Score : 11896
in this review the cpu is overclock but my results almost the double how can this be possible?