Benchmark Testing and Analysis
Test System
Our testing methodology is fairly simple; we run this card through its paces with both synthetic benchmarks and real games.
| Test System | |
| CPU | AMD Phenom II X4 910e @ 2.6GHz |
| Heatsink | GlacialTech Igloo 5760 |
| Motherboard | Jetway Hummer HA-09 |
| Chipset | AMD 890GX |
| Graphics card | Sparkle GeForce GTX 465 |
| RAM | 2x2GB GeIL DDR3-1333, 7-7-7-24 timings |
| Sound | Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Edition |
| HDD 1 | Seagate 7200.10 500GB |
| HDD 2 | Western Digital Caviar Green 5900RPM 500GB |
| Power Supply | Nexus RX-6300 630W |
| Case | Silverstone Fortress FT-02 |
| OS | Windows 7 Ultimate |
| Drivers | Forceware 257.21 |
For those craving more in-depth info, here’s the report from TechPowerUp’s GPU-Z utility:
The more eagle-eyed among you may notice that the card is operating in PCI-E 2.0 X8 mode; this is due to a quirk of the motherboard used in the test system. Given that PCI-E 2.0 has an available bandwidth per lane of 5.0GB/sec—double that of PCI-E 1.0—this means that it is getting as much throughput as an older card running in X16 mode. Since this could be a problem, I elected to run several of the benchmarks with the X-Fi Titanium removed and the shunt card in place, which boosted the GTX 465’s bandwidth to the full X16. There was no discernible improvement in performance in any test, which leads me to believe that the PCI-E bandwidth is not bottlenecking the card’s performance.
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