Preformance difference between 285 and 295

[Renegade14]

Hello... I am planning to do a duel SLI with my new system. My question is, is it better to get 2x 285's or 2x 295's. This might be a dumb question, but I have been hearing that there is a difference... something along the lines of the speeds which puts the 285's out ahead of teh 295's. Any light that can be shed would be great.

Price isnt a big deal, but if it would be a huge waste of money then let me know.

Thanks

 

[gkay09]

Hello... I am planning to do a duel SLI with my new system. My question is, is it better to get 2x 285's or 2x 295's. This might be a dumb question, but I have been hearing that there is a difference... something along the lines of the speeds which puts the 285's out ahead of teh 295's. Any light that can be shed would be great.

Price isnt a big deal, but if it would be a huge waste of money then let me know.

Thanks

At what resolutions do you play at...that's the most important factor here...

Well I would suggest the 2 X 285s SLI instead of the 295 SLI because 295 SLI is actually a quad-SLI and SLI wont scale well with a quad setup...
At the max go with either triple SLI 260/285...
But do wait for the GTX 275 as they provide similar performance of a 285 upto 1900X1200 resolutions...

 

[Renegade14]

I would love to game at the highest rez, but thats just pointless as 30' screens are a little much....

 

[rags_20]

+1 gkay09

Then you'll have to go for 24" and 2x 285 is more than enough. I'd actually suggest 2x 260. Its great for every game except Crysis.

 

[Bluescreendeath]

GTX285 = OCed GTX280
GTX295 = 2 x OCed GTX260

GTX295 > GTX285 >/~ GTX280 > GTX260

 

[Renegade14]

Is it the lower the number the better the speed? I thought it was 295>260... higher number = better I thought...

 

[Brandon00000]

Hello... I am planning to do a duel SLI with my new system. My question is, is it better to get 2x 285's or 2x 295's. This might be a dumb question, but I have been hearing that there is a difference... something along the lines of the speeds which puts the 285's out ahead of teh 295's. Any light that can be shed would be great.

Price isnt a big deal, but if it would be a huge waste of money then let me know.

Thanks

go with the 2-way gtx 285 if you have large pockets so with the 3-way gtx 285 the 295 is awesome but the 285 sli will do much better 2-way or three will be better keep in mind if you do add the 3rd on it will not increase like the second one will you will have an increase just not as much most probably you get +40% on the second and something like 25% on the third one

 

[Renegade14]

I still have about 2 months before I put my final build together.. Right now I put a desktop together for 3.8k that has 2x BFG 285's, I7 920, case, dvd/cd rom, 300 gig 10k rpm hd, 1200w PS, 12gigs of DDR3 1600 RAM (overkill), the Ausus P6T x58, a Noctua cooler, 24inch Asus widescreen monitor, windows vista ultimate 64 bit and windows prof.... Sitting at 3.8k.

With my deployment money I can spent probably another 2k worth on stuff, but... This is what I feel would be top notch (for the most part) with gaming atm...

I will revise this build one more time before purchasing upon my exit of Iraq...

Thoughts???

 

[rags_20]

Is it the lower the number the better the speed? I thought it was 295>260... higher number = better I thought...

That's what BSD said. 295>260

nvidia's naming is difficult to understand for noobs.
For eg. if there is the 8xxx series and the 9xxx series, you can say that within the 8xxx series, higher no. eans better performance. 8400< 8500 < 8600< 8800 But that is not so within a different family. So 9400 < 8800. The GTX2xx is a family.
In it, 260<275<280/285<295

 

[nerrawg]

Here is a great article on 285 GTX SLI and 295 GTX SLI scaling:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3520&p=1

It should give you an idea on how 2,3 and 4 GPU's scale in SLI in a variety of different games

 

[Renegade14]

That's what BSD said. 295>260

nvidia's naming is difficult to understand for noobs.
For eg. if there is the 8xxx series and the 9xxx series, you can say that within the 8xxx series, higher no. eans better performance. 8400< 8500 < 8600< 8800 But that is not so within a different family. So 9400 < 8800. The GTX2xx is a family.
In it, 260<275<280/285<295

Thanks... thats what I figurd, but something about the way he worded it lost me a bit... I was under the influence that it was the opposite way with the 2xx series, which made no sense... thats why I asked. =)

 

[rags_20]

Oh, and 285<295, but 285 SLI > 295 Quad- SLI