EVGA GeForce GTX 275 1792MB review - Introduction

You know .. time certainly flies in this industry. It hasn't been 'that' long ago since NVIDIA released it's answer towards ATI's Radeon HD 4890 release, early April actually. Both cards extremely competitive toward each other. And of course it didn't take long for NVIDIA board partners to release faster clock and more diverse models based of that GeForce GTX 275. And with 1 GHz clock speeds, neither did ATI for that matter.

On the NVIDIA side of things, one such manufacturer is the always shining eVGA, they released multiple versions of the GeForce GTX 275, and we'll be looking at one today. But not an ordinary version, no Sir.

See, as your girlfriend will confirm, sometimes size matters ... and sometimes, size doesn't matter at all ... hey I said sometimes ;) The product we test today of course is that GeForce GTX 275 yet not with 896 MB of memory, no Sir .. it's doubled up towards an incredible 1792 MB. Said in Mac Donald terms .. eVGA super-sized it.

• 1792MB DDR3 Memory
• PCI-E 2.0 x16
• 633Mhz GPU Clock Speed
• 2268Mhz Memory Clock Speed
• NVIDIA SLI ready
• DirectX 10/OpenGL 3.0

So today we'll have a look at what an extra 896MB of graphics memory brings to the table on top of a graphics card with already nearly a GB of graphics memory. The big question is of course, will it be worth the extra 50 USD ? See, you can purchase the 'regular' 896MB version product at 249 USD. This 1792MB version is selling at 299 USD, which quite honestly is not bad considering we have roughly as much rendering capacity as the GTX 285 and way more memory. But sure, the big question remains this .. will it make a difference in today's games if you already have nearly a gig of graphics memory on-board ? Well, that's what we are going to find out today.

First off we'll start with a little 101 on what the GeForce GTX 275 really is, then take a closer look at eVGA's offering, but obviously in our benchmark sessions we'll be able to show you the performance benefits of super-sizing that that graphics card.

Let's have a look at the product first shall we, next page please.