If you've follow the video card industry for any length of time, you're certainly well-known with producers like Asus, Gigabyte, or MSI. The GeForce GTX 275 card we're reviewing today is from a producer not recognizable with, while significant selection of Sparkle products recommend it's flown under my radar. At the similar time, however, the company's USA website has a large "Coming Soon" label hang off it. Fortunately the major domain has any information you need and its simple adequate to find product information.

Sparkle has created two variant of the GeForce GTX 275—the SXX275896D3S-VP and the SXX275896D3-VP. The advantage the "S" conveys, in this case, is so slim one wonders why the company bothered to define two SKUs at all. The "S" variant uses a core clock of 648MHz with a memory clock of 2304MHz and a shader clock of 1440MHz. The company's somewhat cheaper non-S card sprints its core at 633MHz with a 2268MHz memory clock plus a 1404MHz shader clock. Run the numbers, and the "S" SKU ends up with a 2.3 percent core clock benefit, and 1.5 percent RAM clock boost, with shaders clocked 2.6 percent superior. The card that we will be reviewing today is the SXX275896D3S-VP, which is the quicker of the two models.

Neither the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 nor its key contestant, the ATI Radeon HD 4890, is innovative entries to the field, but driver update and a change to an AMD-based platform may shed performance in a unusual light.

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