The world of video cards has taken quite an interesting turn these past few months. The focus has slowly shifted further and further toward ATI, as users are awed by the 5XXX series cards. The 5870 and 5970 are two of the cards that managed to rip a great deal of attention away from the [...]

enthusiast.hardocp.com – The MSI N285GTX SuperPipe OC is an appealing enthusiast video card. It has an aesthetic appeal that actually translates into real-world benefits. The SuperPipe technology seems to be a real winner for MSI. This technology allowed the MSI NX285 GTX to remain very cool at idle and full load operation in comparison to [...]

enthusiast.hardocp.com – ASUS has introduced the world’s first graphics cards to utilize Multilayer Polymer Capacitors (Super ML Caps) with the self-designed ENGTX285 and EAH4890 Series. Both equipped with the Super ML Cap, the ASUS designed ENGTX285 Series allows users to enjoy up to 3.3 times GPU overclocking margins and up to 15°C cooler GPU temperatures [...]

The company presents its new MSI graphics card N285GTX OC, equipped with a block-type Water Full Cover. On the red PCB laminate are installed eight GDDR3 memory chips with a total capacity of 1 GB, 240 stream processors, 512 bit memory controller and a connector for SLI graphics, a system consisting of three accelerators. The [...]

EVGA markets its two “new” graphics card GeForce GTX 285, equipped with 2 GB of GDDR3 memory. The working version of the reference clock frequencies and overclocked one (GTX 285 Superclocked Edition) has 240 stream processors and 512-bit memory controller. GTX 285 Superclocked Edition works with a frequency of 675, 1,584 and 2,376 MHz for [...]

Point of View presents its new GeForce graphics card, GTX 285, equipped with 2 GB of memory installed on both sides of the laminate PCBs. In addition, the design, the card does not deviate from the reference model. Has been equipped with 240 stream processors and 512-bit memory controller is correct. Accelerator works with clock [...]

MSI graphic cards SuperPipe series have  a new model in the form – GeForce GTX 285 (N285GTX SuperPipe 2G), equipped with 2 GB of GDDR3 memory. Accelerator is equipped with a dualslot cooling system- Twin Frozr, which uses two fans, and five copper heat pipe (heatpipes) – three 6 mm and two 8 mm. Although [...]

Sparkle markets its four new graphics cards GeForce GTX 285 – two of the two 1 GB and 2 GB of GDDR3 memory on board. All of them are based on the nVidia reference construction, are clocked at 648 MHz for the GPU, 1476 MHz processor for streaming and 2,448 MHz for memory. All accelerators [...]

Fudzilla.com – Galaxy is preparing to release the 2GB version of the GTX 285 card that will use custom cooling and PCB. The card features a blue, non-reference PCB with 4+2-phase power and will apparently work at stock clocks of 648MHz for the GPU, 2484MHz for 2GB of GDDR3 memory and 1476MHz for the shaders. [...]

Fudzilla.com – Since Radeon HD 4870 already comes in 2GB, and the HD 4890 will likely also come in 2GB versions, NVIDIA doesn’t really have any other choice than to launch its 2GB card in the same market segment. The only trouble is that NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX285 2GB will end up much more expensive than [...]

Fudzilla.com – Inno3D has announced its own GTX 295 and GTX 285 cards. Both cards will be based on NVIDIA’s reference design and they will work at reference clocks. The GTX 295 works at 576MHz for both cores, and comes with a total of 1,792MB of memory, 896MB per GPU. The memory is clocked at [...]

NVIDIA has proudly announced that its 55nm GeForce GTX 285 cards are now officially available in the states at retailers and e-tailers nationwide. Newegg, the largest e-tailer of them all, currently lists three models from EVGA and single models from BFG, XFX, Zotac, and ASUS for a total of 7 offerings to choose from. Currently, [...]

With the launch of the GeForce GTX 295 last week, NVIDIA has started to roll out its 55nm GT200b GPUs onto the market. Today the company is rolling another new graphics card – the GeForce GTX 285 – but unlike the GTX 295, the 285 utilizes just a single GT200b GPU. We spent some time [...]

NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 260 and 280 are based on the GT200 GPU which is made in a 65nm process. Now NVIDIA has performed a die shrink on this design, to 55 nanometers. This results in a lower power consumption allowing new models to be built. The first two cards based on the 55 nm GT200b [...]

Having just had a look at the GTX 285 from GIGABYTE which strictly follows the reference design, it’s nice to see a company at launch offer a card that doesn’t carry the stock clocks. While there is nothing wrong with reference clocks and the speeds the GTX 285 puts out in its stock form, there’s [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

NVIDIA has had a tough time as of late with their GTX 200-series being thoroughly beaten in the price / performance area by the HD 4870 512MB and 1GB cards. What followed were drastic price reductions and the release of the GTX 260 with 216 SPs which contributed to allow the GTX 200-series to compete [...]

The GeForce GTX 200 series, specifically the GeForce GTX 280, was launched on June 16th of 2008. Here we sit now seven months later and the GeForce GTX 280 is getting a refreshing refresh. Typically we see refreshes from new product generations every six months, so NVIDIA is just about keeping on schedule with that [...]

Whenever a new graphics product series is released we always try to bring you guys a little shootout with a couple of retail cards. Last week NVIDIA and their plethora of board partners released their GeForce GTX 285 55nm based graphics cards. Included in that review was supposed to be BFG as well, however shipping [...]