“NVIDIA and ATI dominate the market for gaming-oriented video cards. But neither company sells video cards directly to the consumer; rather, they produce “reference designs” that are manufactured by a number of “partners”. Most partners simply produce the reference design and slap an identifying sticker on the card’s cooler; although some might replace the reference design cooler with a quieter or more powerful solution, with few exceptions there’s little to distinguish one partner’s version of a specific card from another partner’s version of the same card. EVGA breaks out of this rut with their EVGA GTX 275 CO-OP PhysX Edition, model 012-P3-1178-TR, which combines NVIDIA GTS250 and GTX275 GPUs on the same card, and Benchmark Reviews takes it around the block to see what it’s got. ”Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
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A different take on the GTX275
One might wonder why EVGA would be releasing a new GTX275 at this time, but the EVGA GTX275 CO-OP PhysX Edition gives the old card a new twist. Instead of the two GPUs contained within handling purely graphics, this card gives the graphical duties to the GTX275 GPU
and the GTS250 only handles PhysX processing. This made frame rates in Batman:Arkham Asylum jump more than 56% at both the resolutions Benchmark Reviews tested. If you are looking at games that use PhysX and are looking at a more powerful solution than buying a new low powered nVIDIA card, this might be worth considering.