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Review: £250 - £400 to spend on a graphics card? Read this

by Tarinder Sandhu on 21 January 2009, 09:27 3.9

Tags: GeForce GTX 295, GeForce GTX 285 OCX, BFG Technologies, ZOTAC, PC

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Call of Duty 4

Call of Duty 4: MW (high-end) 1,680x1,050 4xAA 16xAF
BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GBZOTAC GeForce GTX 295 1,792MBSapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GBInno3D GeForce GTX 280 1GBInno3D GeForce GTX 260 SLI
101.37123.33138.7142.5787.87138.43


Call of Duty 4: MW (high-end) 1,920x1,200 4xAA 16xAF
BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GBZOTAC GeForce GTX 295 1,792MBSapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GBInno3D GeForce GTX 280 1GBInno3D GeForce GTX 260 SLI
86.5104.7126.3123.1775.27123.17


Call of Duty 4: MW (high-end) 2,560x1,600 4xAA 16xAF
BFG GeForce GTX 285 OCX 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GBZOTAC GeForce GTX 295 1,792MBSapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GBInno3D GeForce GTX 280 1GBInno3D GeForce GTX 260 SLI
59.567.8391.9781.7750.7787.63


The £395 ZOTAC GeForce GTX 295 lays a spanking on the £378 BFG card, showing, obviously, that two can be better than one in games with well-tuned profiles.

We also see strong performances from the other three multi-GPU setups - one based on two cards, GeForce GTX 260 SLI, and the other two from Sapphire, on one card each - and they all leave a heavily-overclocked GTX 285 in their collective wake. >60fps at 2,560x1,600 is just lush.