Performance in Semi-Synthetic Benchmarks

Futuremark 3DMark06

We could not expect anything new from 3DMark06 which defaults to 1280x1024. And indeed, it is only in the SM3.0/HDR tests that the EVGA GeForce GTX 275 1792MB outperforms the reference card from Nvidia by more than 100 points. When overclocked, it beats the Radeon HD 4890, though.

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.

3DMark Vantage’s results are somewhat more of a surprise for us. This benchmark is far more demanding and can make use of all of a graphics card’s resources. However, 1792 megabytes of graphics memory is redundant even here: the results of the two versions of GeForce GTX 275 coincide up to a dozen of points.

It is only in the second test that the EVGA GeForce GTX 275 1792MB has a small advantage over the reference card at 1920x1200, which amounts to a mere 3%. In the other tests these cards have the same result.