NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Unveiled

Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 Unveiled - Page 9
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Thursday, January 15, 2009, 09:01 AM EDT

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Left 4 Dead

DirectX Gaming Performance

Left 4 Dead

Left 4 Dead is a co-operative, survival horror, first-person shooter that was developed by Turtle Rock Studios, which was purchased by Valve part-way into development. Like Half Life 2, the game uses the Source engine, however, the visual in L4D are far superior to anything seen in the Half Life universe to date. The game pits four Survivors of an apocalyptic pandemic against hordes of aggressive zombies. We tested the game at resolutions of 1,920 x 1,200 and 2,560 x 1,600 with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering enabled and all in game graphical options set to their maximum values.

The GeForce GTX 285 performed very well in our custom Left 4 Dead benchmark. Here, the single-GPU powered EVGA GeForce GTX 285 SSC Edition outpaced the dual-GPU powered Radeon HD 4850 X2, and similarly outperformed all of the other single-GPU powered cards as well. Only the dual-GPU powered GeForce GTX 295 and Radeon HD 4870 X2 were faster.

Tags: Nvidia, GeForce, graphics, GTX, video cards

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Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com