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Welcome to the Reviews section. Here you will find a selection of UK magazine and website reviews written about NVIDIA's range of Desktop, Mobile, Platform and Audio/Video technologies.


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Hexus

Product: GeForce GTX 480

Decent overclock out of the box; Overclocks much farther when pushed; Cooler does an excellent job in keeping GPU cool and fans quiet.

Guru3D

Product: GeForce GTX 480

...the fact remains, you are certainly looking at the fastest GPUs on the block. Additional benefits when purchasing an NVIDIA card is of course PhysX which definitely is gaining more ground since the last year. It's a nice feature to have, sure... CUDA, we haven't talked about it much just yet. But obviously the GF100 GPUs are fully CUDA ready, in fact the architecture was designed with CUDA in mind. On the compute side of things we know one thing for sure, the GF100 should be impressive.

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Techradar

Product: GeForce GTX 470

So, it’s job done then; the GTX470 is measurably better than AMD’s HD5870.

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Techradar

Product: GeForce GTX 460

The huge amount of overclocking headroom and the fact the card remains pretty damned quiet while it's doing it too makes it a winner. …Time to head to the job centre for a fair few other cards then .

Driver Heaven

Product: GeForce GTX 460

NVIDIAs new GTX 460 offers a huge range of features... exceeding its direct competition from ATI in every way. A great, well balanced and flexible addition to the GTX 400 series.

Bit-Tech

Product: GeForce GTX 460

...if you’re in the market for a £200 graphics card, then the GTX 460 1GB is the sweet spot at the moment.

Hexus

Product: GeForce GTX 460

Cooler, quieter and smaller than previous Fermi Cards, Sharp performance at sub-200 GBP price points and they overclock well.

Bit-Tech

Product: GeForce GTX 460

The GTX 460 768MB is a solid card, but scratch together the extra £20 and get the 1GB version if you can: you wont regret it.

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Bit-Tech

Product: GeForce GTX 295

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 295 retakes the title of the fastest graphics card in the world. Ultimately, it’s going to come down to pricing – if Nvidia’s partners manage to hit the prices we’re being quoted, we’d get the GTX 295 because of its inherent performance advantage in all but a few scenarios.

Hexus

Product: GeForce GTX 295
Award: Hexus Extreme Speed Award

NVIDIA set out to win back the single-card performance crown and has undoubtedly succeeded. Irrespective of AMD pricecuts, and to NVIDIA's credit, the GeForce GTX 295's architectural efficiency manages to beat out the Radeon HD 4870 X2 in two of the other key non-performance areas - the card is significantly cooler and consumes far less power. All this whilst keeping relatively quiet, too.

Trusted Reviews

Product: GeForce GTX 295

So, the GTX 295 is the fastest graphics card on the planet and it consumes less power than the competition. NVIDIA has aimed for the gaming performance crown with the GTX 295 and it has certainly succeeded...
Most importantly, though, NVIDIA has also regained the price/performance crown, making this the clear choice of ultra high-end graphics cards.

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Hexus

Product: GeForce GTX 285

NVIDIA claims the GeForce GTX 285 to be the "fastest single GPU solution available," and quite frankly, it is. The card, essentially an overclocked GeForce GTX 280 built on 55nm technology, fulfils its promise of higher performance and lower temperatures.

Elite B*st*rds

Product: GeForce GTX 285
Award: Elite B*st*rds Elite Performance Award

It's fair to say that, as a result, the GeForce GTX 285 is noticeably faster across the board with very few caveats, allowing it to enjoy every title at 1920x1200 with anti-aliasing enabled without issue, and frequently making 2560x1600 with AA switched on a possibility, even in the latest games. Add to that the usual extra goodies such as PhysX and CUDA support, and you certainly have yourself a very capable package. If you don't want to go down the multi-GPU route, then the what we're looking at in the GeForce GTX 285 is undoubtedly the fastest single chip graphics board on the market.

CPU3D.com

Product: GeForce GTX 285
Award: CPU3D.com Recommended Award

Final words. The ENGTX285 TOP will remain in Asus's catalogue as their most powerful single GPU based graphics card so far. The DX10 performance is outstanding. It runs extremely cool and uses all of Nvidia's latest technologies. For now, the Geforce GTX 285 has taken the performance crown from AMD/ATI ... the only let down is price.

Overclock3D.net

Product: GeForce GTX 285
Award: OC3D Recommended Award

...the single GPU champ has been in training, had a fabrication workout and gone a diet along with a new wardrobe. This has seen the GTX285 perform well but perhaps not the significant increase in performance we were hoping for. However, if you are looking for an upgrade from a midrange card up to hassle free, high-end gaming, I would certainly recommend the Asus ENGTX285 which for now, until the OC revisions are upon us, is the highest performing single core graphics card on the planet.

Bit-Tech

Product: GeForce GTX 285

Simply put, if you want the fastest single GPU graphics card in your next build, the GeForce GTX 285 is it. Features - 9/10, performance - 8/10, value - 6/10, overall - 7/10.

Hexus

Product: GeForce GTX 285

Bottom line: a faster, better card than GeForce GTX 280, in any flavour, Inno3D's is the first pre-overclocked effort we've seen, and it glides through the benchmarks in serene fashion. High on speed but relatively low on value - a situation, it seems, out of partners' control - we urge readers to wait until pricing drops significantly.

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Guru3D

Product: GeForce GTX 275
Award: Guru 3D Recommend, Top Pick & Great Value award

In general, there's very little negative about the GeForce GTX 275 really, you get the best from both worlds.You will have full support for PhysX and other 3rd party software. Right now there's a handful of applications out there that will utilize the GPU to help out with other functions. Acceleration, enhancing or en/transcoding of video files is probably the more popular functionality, but also Photoshop CS4 recently got CUDA accelerated and helps out in some parts where the CPU struggled. It's a nice development.

Techradar

Product: GeForce GTX 275

Until now we'd considered the benefits of CUDA and PhysX capabilities on the NVIDIA GPUs fairly irrelevant, but with these two new cards being so close in performance terms you'd have to give the win to the card that offers you more. And the GTX 275 most certainly does that.

Bit-Tech

Product: GeForce GTX 275
Award: Bit-Tech.net Recommended Award

Considering the Palit GeForce GTX 275 performs identically to the Nvidia stock models available from other board partners, and still holds an overall performance advantage over the Radeon, this makes it absolutely fantastic value. If you’re thinking of picking up GeForce GTX 275 and don't care to faff about with overclocking then the Palit GeForce GTX 275 is the one to get.

Hexus

Product: GeForce GTX 275

GeForce GTX 275 is a good product based on proven lineage, and it competes against Radeon HD 4890 on an equal footing in most respects. We like the fact that BFG has come to market with a pre-overclocked card, and the OC model stakes a place as solid gaming card at around the £230 mark.

PC Pro

Product: GeForce GTX 275
Award: PC Pro Recommended

Nvidia has the edge with GPGPU functions. The GTX 285 and 295 may be too expensive for serious consideration, but the revised core and slashed price of the GTX 275 makes it a far more tempting proposition.

Guru3D

Product: GeForce GTX 275
Award: Guru 3D Recommended Award

The GeForce GTX 275 was launched with one sole reason only, to battle off the Radeon HD 4890. It's the cat and mouse game that ATI and NVIDIA have to play against each other. Competition is what makes this technology evolve and affordable, don't you ever forget that. By doing so NVIDIA accomplished it's mission absolutely.

Driver Heaven

Product: GeForce GTX 275
Award: Driver Heaven Heavenly Gold Award - Best In Class

It is clear from the performance figures achieved by the GTX 275 that it is a very desirable product. Throughout our testing the card was often leading the pack and regularly produced higher minimum framerates than the competition. CUDA/GPU computing continues to impress us and new additions such as vReveal detail just how useful and flexible the GeForce GPU can be. They should have a very popular product on their hands and one that it is hard not to recommend.

Hexus

Product: GeForce GTX 275

...which would we choose if given £200-£225 right now? We'd give the nod, just, to the GeForce GTX 275, because it matches the Radeon HD 4890s on price and performance, is a little quieter, draws a touch less power when idling, and is backed up by more-robust GPGPU environment.

Trusted Reviews

Product: GeForce GTX 275

If you tend to leave your computer on for long periods of time when not gaming, you may appreciate the lower idle power of the GTX 275. Likewise, the wider software support for CUDA, over ATI Stream, may attract you to side with NVIDIA, especially if you work with video a lot - be it editing or trans/encoding

Bit-Tech

Product: GeForce GTX 275
Award: Bit-Tech Recommended Award

For ATI to deliver more performance to trump Nvidia's GTX 275. ATI will have to push the clock speeds even higher, producing an even hotter, more expensive and probably louder card. Either that, or it'll have to look into a re-vamped HD 4850 X2 card based on a pair of RV790 GPUs (likely downclocked and with the GDDR3 memory controller enabled).
As it stands, the GTX 275 with the ForceWare 185.65 beta driver is the clear choice.

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Driver Heaven

Product: GeForce GTS 260
Award: Driver Heaven Heavely Gold Award. Best in Class.

Asus have produced a card complete with great features and performance that enters the market at exactly the right price point to be a real winner. They haven’t skimped on the bundle either and have included all of the accessories you could need, including an HDMI adaptor and S/PDIF cable.

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Guru3D

Product: GeForce GTS 250
Award: Guru 3D Great Value Award

...the price is the real reason that I like the GeForce GTS 250 as I believe that 139 USD is just a very fair deal. Should you go for 1024MB of memory? Well, I tend to say yes. The price is only ~25 USD higher and especially with modern DX10 titles we start to see the benefit of more than 512MB memory.

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Bit-Tech

Product: GeForce 9300 (MCP7A)

...compared to other integrated graphics motherboards it's advantages are obvious: dual digital video outputs, great HQV and a perfect HD HQV score, solid reliability from the chipset that shouldn't even need fan providing the environment is cool enough... being stable and for HTPC playback it's the best Intel solution currently available. The Nvidia GeForce 9300 gives it an underlying boost to be something great with dual digital displays, perfect HD HQV numbers (that we've not seen before) and Blu-ray playback that the Intel G45 can't match. It should make for a very compelling HTPC purchase.

Bit-Tech

Product: GeForce 9300 (MCP7A)

MCP7a does still appear to be a great chipset on paper provided you're interested in HTPC features. Using Nvidia's on words though - a slideshow is one thing, but actually using the final product is another - so check out our Zotac GeForce 9300 review to find how we actually get on with it.

Hexus

Product: GeForce 9300 (MCP7A)

MCP7A represents class-leading IGP performance on an Intel S775 platform, sure, but its main raison d'etre appears to be in mobile form, arriving sooner than you think. The Good - Comfortably better than Intel G45 (X4500HD) for 3D work. Useful as a base for an Intel-oriented HTPC setup. CUDA and PhysX make a little more sense now.

Trusted Reviews

Product: GeForce 9300 (MCP7A)

...the new chipset supports Cuda acceleration and video transcoding to convert video from one size/format to another e.g. for your iPhone. Fair enough, if you intend to use your integrated PC for relatively serious work you will probably find that 9300M/9400M has an advantage over G45... nVidia's new 9300M brings some good features to the motherboard table

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PC Pro

Product: Acer AspireRevo
Award: PC PRO Recommended Award

Verdict: Finally, the first genuinely desirable nettop, thanks to an HD-capable graphics chip. ...right now the Acer Aspire Revo R3600 stands alone as the first nettop PC we'd genuinely consider buying for our living rooms.

Guru3d

Product: ION

NVDIA Ion is potentially a very promising platform. It will break away from a lot of restrictions currently found in Intel's chipset solutions for Atom based netbooks and mini-PCs.
... ION might be the best thing since sliced bread !

Pocket-lint

Product: ION

The boast is that with NVIDIA ION and "premium" versions of Microsoft Windows, small form factor notebook and desktop PCs will get "rich" media capabilities and full graphics support for the first time !

The Register

Product: ION

Microsoft has certified drivers for Windows Vista Home Premium for use with NVIDIA’s small and sexy ION graphics acceleration platform, which juices netbook performance.

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