After a long wait, the re-birth of the fastest single GPU based graphics card on the planet is here, the GTX285.

Successor to the phenomenally successful GTX280, the GTX285 has received a die shrink to 55nm as well as a slightly redesigned card as we shall see later in the review. Thanks to the shift over to the 55nm process NVIDIA have used smaller transistors and as a result clockspeeds have been increased along with a reduction in power usage. This has allowed NVIDIA to use 2x 6pin PCIe cables rather than the 280′s 6+8 pin configuration which should appeal to the wider market, especially those who don’t have an 8 pin PCIe cable at their disposal.

Power requirements aside, the main attraction of the 285 is the increased clockspeeds as standard. The GTX280 had a 602MHz / 2.2GHz core/memory clockspeed. This has been tweaked slightly to 648MHz / 2.484GHz. While this might not appear to be a huge increase, especially when compared to ATI clockspeeds, there will still hopefully be plenty of overclocking headroom left in the card as with the GTX280. Overclocked editions are already in the works, and no doubt Asus have the TOP edition ready to roll. But for todays review we will be looking at the standard, stock clocked ENGTX285 from Asus.

NVIDIA boldly claim that they expect to see a 10% improvement over the GTX280 in benchmarks so it will be an interesting read to see if our results back up or dispute NVIDIA’s claims. Let’s take a closer look at the GTX285′s specification…

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/gpu_displays/asus_en_gtx285_1gb_graphics_card/1