With the recent struggles NVIDIA faced throughout 2008 — problems with its manufacturing process, slumping stock price, a reemergence by ATI into the competitive high end graphics market — the chip maker can use all the friends it can get, and NVIDIA certainly has a BFF in EVGA. Save for a small lineup of NVIDIA-based motherboards, EVGA has zeroed in on the videocard market in its nearly 10-year tenure, culminating in what some enthusiasts would argue as the king of graphics hill. We can think of at least two other vendors who would argue otherwise, but for EVGA’s part, the company has set the tone for what a lifetime warranty should consist of, allowing power users to tinker with overclocking and swap heatsinks without invalidating the lifetime backing.

But the warranty is only as good as the card it guarantees, and today we look at one of NVIDIA’s newest GPUs, the GeForce GTX 285. EVGA ups the ante over NVIDIA’s reference design by increasing the core, memory, and stream processor clockspeeds, resulting in the GeForce GTX 285 SSC Edition. But how does it all compare to NVIDIA’s previous videocards?

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