Zotac GeForce GTX 285 Infinity Edition
Test System, 3DMark Vantage
HOW WE CONFIGURED THE TEST SYSTEMS: In order to provide comparable results, each graphics card was installed on the same, high end test system. The components we used consists of an EVGA X58 Classified motherboard, Core i7 965 Extreme processor, and 6GB of Crucial Ballistix Tracer memory. Within the BIOS, we configured the processor and memory to their rated specifications of 3.2GHz and 1600MHz respectively. The Western Digital Velociraptor hard drive was formatted before installing a clean copy of Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit SP1. Once the installation was completed, we fully updated the OS and installed the latest drivers and applications relevant to the test system.
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EVGA X58 Classified Zotac GTX 285 Infinity Edition Integrated Audio GPU Watercooling Loop: |
Relevant Software: Windows Vista Ultimate x64 SP1 DirectX November 2008 Redist RivaTuner v2.24 Drivers: NVIDIA Driver Release 182.50 WHQL ATI Catalyst Display Driver 9.4 Benchmarks: * - Custom Benchmark |
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The latest version of Futuremark's synthetic 3D gaming benchmark, 3DMark Vantage, is specifically bound to Windows Vista-based systems because it uses some advanced visual technologies that are only available with DirectX 10, which isn't available on previous versions of Windows. 3DMark Vantage isn't simply a port of 3DMark06 to DirectX 10 though. With this latest version of the benchmark, Futuremark has incorporated two new graphics tests, two new CPU tests, several new feature tests, in addition to support for the latest PC hardware. We tested the graphics cards here with 3DMark Vantage's Extreme preset option, which uses a resolution of 1920x1200, with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering. |
Zotac's Infinity Edition GTX 285 performs well in 3DMark Vantage, but is not able to catch the HD 4870X2 or GTX 295 in this benchmark. It does show significant improvement over the reference clocked GTX 285 scores though.
