From Nvidia¡¯s side of the fence, the GeForce GTX 280 is the obvious competition and while the GTX 285 is faster, you have to ask if it¡¯s worth the additional outlay over the few GTX 280s that are still available. Obviously, we¡¯ve tested the standard clocked version here, but there¡¯s an XFX GeForce GTX 280 clocked at 640MHz core (not that much lower than the GTX 285¡¯s reference clock) on sale at Scan for ¡ê275 including VAT which makes us wonder whether it¡¯s worth spending the extra ¡ê20 or so on a 285.

Of course, there are power consumption benefits to the 285, but they¡¯re small. The other thing we haven¡¯t covered is overclocking, but based on our brief experience with overclocking, the 55nm cores seem to clock a little better ¨C the XFX GeForce GTX 280 XT is likely to be close to its clock speed limit out of the factory.



Link: Bit Tech