Performance in Simulators

Race Driver: GRID

As you can see again, most of today’s games do not need 1 gigabyte of graphics memory. 896 megabytes is quite enough even at the highest resolutions. Perhaps 1GB or more memory may come in handy for GPGPU applications but games are a different story. In this particular case overclocking is useless, too. The GeForce GTX 275 delivers comfortable performance at every resolution up to 2560x1600 even at its default frequencies.

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

We use the in-game benchmarking tools that do not allow to measure the bottom frame rate. We also enable DirectX 10.1 support for ATI’s solutions.

Although H.A.W.X. is one of the most demanding applications on our list, it finds that 896MB on board the GeForce GTX 275 is enough. The double amount of graphics memory produces no effect. Overclocking, on the contrary, makes the game more enjoyable at 1920x1200 even subjectively. Thus, it is the single case in this review when overclocking provides a tangible benefit for an ordinary gamer.