EVGA GeForce GTX 275 CO-OP PhysX Edition Summary

Highs:

• Outperforms Radeon HD 5770;
• Successfully competes against Radeon HD 4890;
• Is practically as fast as GeForce GTX 285;
• Wide range of supported FSAA modes;
• Minimal effect of enabled FSAA on performance;
• 240 ALU, 80 texture processors and 28 RBE;
• Additional G92b core that can function as PhysX/CUDA co-processor;
• Co-processor features 384 MB of its own memory;
• Good overclocking potential;
• Batman: Arkham Asylum game in the bundle.

Lows:

• No DirectX 11support;
• Incomplete hardware support of VC-1 decoding;
• No integrated sound core;
• High power consumption;
• High noise;
• Narrow application field.

XFX Radeon HD 5850 Black Edition Summary

Highs:

• Increased GPU and memory frequencies;
• Outperforms GeForce GTX 275 considerably in most games;
• Wide range of supported FSAA modes;
• Best Edge-detect CFAA in the industry;
• Best anisotropic filtering in the industry;
• Supports up to three monitors;
• 1024 MB of fast local GDDR5 video memory;
• 1440 ALU, 72 texturing units and 32 raster back ends;
• DirectX 11, Shader Model 5.0 and DirectCompute 11 support;
• Fully-fledged hardware HD video decoding;
• High-quality HD video post-processing with scalability;
• Integrated sound core with HD support;
• Low power consumption;
• Low noise;
• Good overclocking potential;
• Colin McRae: Dirt 2 auto simulator game included.

 Lows:

• No PhysX acceleration support.