Testbed

Motherboard: MSI P45D3 Platinum ( Provided by: MSI );
Processor: Intel Core 2 QX9770 Extreme edition at 3.6GHz ( Provided by: Intel );
Memory: Corsair Dominator 12800 7-7-7-24 ( Provided by: Corsair);
HDD: WD VelociRaptor 300G 10,000RPM ( Provided by: SmoothCreation );

3DMark06

This is the one of a few tests where HD 4870 X2 can beat the GTX 295.



Although HD 4870 X2 has the upper hand here, the "upper hand" accounts to only about 1% better performance. The two GTXs run on pare here.

Vantage Test

Compared to the previous test, in Vantage is the GTX 295 undisputed king.







On high and performance settings, EVGA GTX 295+ shows some serious muscle and thrashes the HD 4870 X2 by 40% and 46%, whereas extreme settings see GTX 295+'s advantage duck to 28%. GTX 295+ beats the reference GTX 295 by 2% on high and performance settings and by 4% at extreme settings.