NVIDIA, in all of the respects, is a good graphics maker, in the respect in the performance in the newer GTS series with the single GTX295, being one of the many powerful dual core graphics in the market today and the only reasonable ones, with the power wattage and heat dissipation, in the comparison from the later 4870X2’s.
The GTX series is the most current high performance series from NVIDIA that supports the latest of the PhysX technology, with the incorporation of the CUDA system for a much better GPU calculation in coding and also in graphic simulation like the recent Folding@Home software, for solving the folds of protein genes, which is used in medical research all around the world. With, with this unique features made by NVIDIA, to incorporate other useful apps into the graphics card rather than having the CPU to run simulations at its own, to actually made it efficient in running at this mode, because of the power output (processing) of the graphics card is far exceeds, in comparison to the CPU.
But enough the advantage of the graphics card, but to review, the GTX285, NVIDIA;s most powerful single core GPU in the market in a premium price, of all the graphics cards, the GTX280 revision, the GTX285 series and from ASUS, made it a GTX285 matrix edition. The ASUS new brands of premium gaming series in their production line, the matrix is being used in a long time, like the HD4870 and also the 9800GT and 9600GT’s, it is a first time we see the GTX285 to be coated with a new body cooling design and some new unique features only seen in ASUS.
In the inspection of the Matrix edition GTX285, a long 26cm long graphics, with a dual slot form factor with a combination of a dual DVI port, is enough for being a gaming graphics card rather than a HD card, form it’s configuration like a core frequency 662MHz, with 1Gb of GDDR3 memory with an effective frequency of 2484MHz, with enough core shader cores and also core fill rates and units make it a single core powerhouse, this could cost you about $435US.
The benchmarks say that the card from ASUS is very capable of doing enough frame rates, in both high end games like Crysis and all of the day to day games, like Mass effect if people are still playing it. But in the note for the high end games, you have to compensate with the change of graphic settings and also resolution, to keep the minimum 30 fps to make it playable.
Most of the time, the Matrix GTX285 card is an interesting beast of a card, with a lower default clock you would expect performance of the card to be lower than the other cards I’ve tested, but this was not the case. The card scored nearly the same as the other GTX285s, besting them in some, losing by a small margin in other tests. The card overclocks well, going past 735MHz for the core totally stable. ASUS has done a masterful job with their MATRIX card with a good bundle, good overclocking and the extra features they offer with every product. This product is a Hot Product for those reasons. Of course one can’t ignore the fact that Windows 7 is about to be released with DirectX 11, but for now the GTX285 is the fastest single chip card from either side.