Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

We disabled the integrated frame rate limiter in the game console for the sake of comparing the cards. The game’s built-in benchmarking options do not provide information about the bottom speed, so there is no such info in the diagrams.

Like in the previous test, the EVGA card has a small advantage over Nvidia’s reference sample at 2560x1600 but there is no difference at the other resolutions. Overclocking has the biggest effect at 1920x1200 where it ensures a 20% performance boost in average frame rate. We should remind you that the frame rate limit is set at 30fps in this game for multiplayer mode and a higher frame rate only provides you some reserve for massive battle scenes.

Far Cry 2

Far Cry 2 is not as demanding an application as its distant relation Crysis, so there is absolutely no difference between the two versions of GeForce GTX 275. However, you can overclock the EVGA card and easily make it as fast as the more expensive GeForce GTX 285. We won’t be surprised if the GeForce GTX 285 will soon share the fate of not-very-lucky solutions from Nvidia such as GeForce 9800 GX2. The single-chip flagship is quite a good device in itself, but it is inappropriately more expensive than the GeForce GTX 275.