GTX285 vs GTX260+ vs 4850 Performance Test

Hardware

• Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 (reference 3 GHz clock).
• nVidia GeForce GTX285 (1 GB, nVidia reference clocks).
• nVidia GeForce GTX260+ (896 MB, nVidia reference clocks).
• ATi Radeon 4850 (512 MB, ATi reference clocks).
• 4 GB DDR2-800 RAM (4×1 GB, dual-channel).
• Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R (Intel G33 chipset, F7 BIOS).
• Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic.
• 19” Sony CPD-G420 CRT (maximum resolution 1920×1440).

Software

• Windows XP 32 bit SP3
• nVidia driver 182.50, high quality filtering, all optimizations off, LOD clamp enabled.
• ATi Catalyst 9.4, high quality mip-map setting.
• DirectX March 2009.
• All games patched to their latest versions.

Settings

• 16xAF forced in the driver, vsync forced off in the driver.
• AA forced either through the driver or enabled in-game, whichever works better.
• Since I’m on XP, all DX10 titles were run under DX9 render paths.
• Highest quality sound (stereo) used in all games.
• All results show an average framerate.