Performance in Semi-Synthetic Benchmarks

Futuremark 3DMark06

The Gigabyte GV-R485MC-1GI is inferior to the GeForce GTS 250 in 3DMark06. The benchmark defaults to 1280x1024 without full-screen antialiasing, so there is no difference between the Gigabyte card and the reference Radeon HD 4850 512MB.

Futuremark 3DMark Vantage

We minimize the CPU’s influence by using the Extreme profile (1920x1200, 4x FSAA and anisotropic filtering). We also publish the results of the individual tests across all display resolutions to provide a full picture.

Notwithstanding the Extreme settings, the Gigabyte GV-R485MC-1GI is not much faster than its reference counterpart with 512MB of memory. The maximum gap is only 102 points. The Gigabyte stops a mere 10 points short of the 3,000 points score. As for the other camp, the GeForce GTS 250 1GB is substantially faster than the GeForce GTS 250 512MB, probably due to the less effective memory management mechanisms we have written about in our earlier reports.

The individual tests do not show anything extraordinary except that the GeForce GTS 250 is more confident at 1280x1024 in the second test than at the higher resolutions where it cannot beat the Radeon HD 4850 anymore.