2560×1600 Performance Investigation (updated)

8xS & 16xS

And finally, what review would be complete without testing the combined mode super-sampling modes? Let’s see how my graphics cards cope at 2560×1600 with these modes.

These results closely mimic those when I tested the GTX285 against the GTX260+ at 1920×1440 using these modes, where some of the biggest performance gains between the cards were witnessed. Here the two top titles (Quake 3 and the original Unreal Tournament) – both a decade old – score the highest performance gains witnessed today, 36.51% and 37.06% respectively.

As for the rest of the games, the GTX285 ensures we’re hitting well over 60 FPS while the GTX260+’s performance is quite pokey in some cases, especially in the faster paced games like the original Call of Duty.

It should be worth mentioning that 16xS actually renders the internal image four times bigger, so that means the GTX285 is pushing over 16 million lit, textured, shaded and anti-aliased pixels more than sixty times a second at this setting. This helps to put some of the astonishing performance modern GPUs offer into perspective.