Our today’s guest is GeForce GTX 285, yet another card with a 55nm GPU. The recently announced GTX 295 card also features a 55nm GPU, as is the case with many other NVIDIA cards such as the GTX 260 with 216 shaders. NVIDIA opted for a silent approach, where the cards would get a new chip and retain the name without making a big fuss about it, but GeForce GTX 285 couldn’t retain the name as it was clocked higher than GTX 280.

GeForce GTX 280 has so far been the fastest single GPU NVIDIA card running at 602MHz for the core and it packed a 65nm GT200 chip. The following picture shows the GTX 285 and the GTX 280 head to head. Gainward’s new card runs at reference core speed – 648MHz.

Although they appear to be somewhat identical, there’re a couple of things that will help you tell GTX 285 and GTX 280 cards apart. From this point of view we can see that GTX 285’s doesn’t feature protective rubber caps on SLI connectors, which is just fine as they weren’t needed in the first place except for better looking.