Eager to improve on the (now discontinued) GTX 280, Nvidia did the obvious thing and sent the GT200 GPU for a die shrink. The result is the GeForce GTX 285, which is essentially a higher clocked GTX 280.

	Nvidia GeForce GTX 295	Nvidia GeForce GTX 285	Nvidia GeForce GTX 280	Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 Core 216	ATI Radeon HD4870 X2	ATI Radeon HD4870 1GB
GPU	2x GT200b	GT200b	GT200	GT200/GT200b	R700 XT	R700
Process (nm)	55	55	65	65/55	55
Core Clock (Mhz)	576	648	620	576	750	750
Shader Clock (Mhz)	1242	1476	1296	1242	750	750
Memory Clock (Mhz)*	999	1242	1107	999	900	900
Memory Size (MB)	1792 (2x 896)	1024	1024	896	2048 (2x 1024)	1024
Memory Type	GDDR3	GDDR3	GDDR3	GDDR3	GDDR5	GDDR5
Unified Shaders/ Stream Processors	480 (2x 240)	240	240	216	800	800
Texture Mapping Units	160 (2x 80)	80	80	74	80 (2x 40)	40
Raster Operation Units	56 (2x 28)	32	32	28	32 (2x 16)	32
Memory Interface (bits)	896 (2x 448)	512	512	448	512 (2x 256)	256
Outputs (on reference design)	2x Dual-Link DVI 1x HDMI	2x Dual-Link DVI TV-Out	2x Dual-Link DVI TV-Out	2x Dual-Link DVI TV-Out	2x Dual-Link DVI TV-Out	2
Power Connectors	1x 6-pin, 1x 8-pin	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin, 1x 8-pin	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin, 1x 8-pin	2x 6-pin
Thermal Design Power (w)	289	183	236	182	286	150
Estimated Retail Price (USD)	499	399	-	289	449

*Effective clock, or transfers/second, is twice the stated speed for GDDR3 and four times the stated speed for GDDR5.

The GTX 285 we're using in this review is Asus' TOP model, which uses the reference heatsink but is factory-overclocked. For the purposes of this article however we'll be downclocking the card to reference speeds and treating it as a reference GTX 285.