Thread: Palit GeForce GTX 275

NVIDIA and ATI are still at it, trying to outdo the other. NVIDIA came out with the GTX 285 and GTX 295 cards and then AT! came out with the 4890, which was actually a pumped up version of their 4870. However, now there is a new player in the market, the GTX 275 which is a card midway between the GTX 260 and the GTX 285 and was launched by NVIDIA for the sole purpose of competing with the HD 4890. The GeForce GTX 275 has the same number of stream processors as the GTX 285 - 240, but the memory configuration is equal to that of the GTX 260 - 896 MB.

Palit did something different with their version of very the GeForce GTX 275, they replaced the reference cooler design from NVIDIA with a dual 80-mm fan cooling solution. This would normally be seen a few months after the launch of a new card, but Palit has done it right from the start. The outer housing of the card, that holds the 80-mm fans, is made of not-so-good quality plastic, but it serves the purpose of just holding everything in place at least. Benchmarked this card using, an Intel QX9650, running at 3.0 GHz and 4 GB of DDR2 memory at 1066 MHz. We used two resolutions with our game benchmarks - 1600 x 1200 and 1920 x1200; both resolutions with 4x antialiasing and 4x anistrophic filtering. In comparison to a GTX 285, this card does fall short; but it outperforms a 4890.