GTX 285m Benchmark Thread

I will be updating this thread throughout the day with Benchmarks for this card. Card and laptop using stock drivers. Specs below:

17.3" 16:9 LED 1920 x 1080 X-Glass Screen
Intel® Core™ i7-720QM 1.60 GHz
4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666 RAM at 1333MHz
NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 285M 1GB GDDR3

Haven't yet seen any info on this card's performance so thought I'd share my experience with it so far.

Vsync

Vsync does not appear to be working in some of the games I tested - even if I attempted to force it through the Nvidia Control panel - possible driver issue that I thought I should mention but it is completely random as to what games it seems to be affecting (hence the low 'increase' in FPS I appear to have had with some games in the following tests once I turned this feature off).

3D Mark Vantage

P7118
GPU: 5723 CPU: 26459
Temps: Min: 57C Max: 78C After Test: 60C

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed - Ultimate Sith Edition Surprised by just how good this game looks despite a few issues (massive load times, 25GB HDD install and no option to select missions straight from the main menu)

1920x1080 High Detail on
Min: 21
Max: 34
Avg: 30

Dirt 2 Built in Benchmark (Post latest game patch - increase in performance from prior version of about 50-75%)

1920x1080 4xAA and All settings on Ultra apart from Post Processing which was locked at medium - higher setting enabled only on DX11 cards
Total Frames: 4.027
Min: 40.6
Avg: 48.2

Left 4 Dead FRAPS benchmark

1920x1080 All settings on Max and Full AA and AF No Vsync
Min: 32
Max: 277
Avg: 73

Left 4 Dead 2 FRAPS benchmark

1920x1080 All settings on Max and 4xAA and Full AF No Vsync
Min: 39
Max: 63
Avg: 55

Dragon Age: Origins FRAPS benchmark - Low single digit FPS probably due to the game saving or a check point. In game never dipped below 30FPS

1920x1080 Max settings 4xAA Vsync On
Min: 8
Max: 61
Avg:38

Dawn of War 2 Built in Stress Test

1920x1080 All Ultra, AA on
Min: 6.54
Max: 65
Avg: 27.82

Cryostasis FRAPS benchmark

1600x900 All set to high and Vsync off No AA No AF and No Physx
Min: 17
Max: 101
Avg: 35

Borderlands FRAPS Benchmark

1920x1080 All set to Max or turned on
Min: 27
Max: 64
Avg: 50.625

Add about 5-10 extra FPS if you turn off Ambient Occlusion - it's a serious performance hit.

World in Conflict Built in Benchmark - short, sweet and efficient, I wish all Benchmarking tools were this quick

1920x1080 DX10 All settings set to highest or turned on 4xAA 4xAF
Min: 7
Max: 45
Avg: 23

1920x1080 DX10 All settings set to highest or turned on 0xAA 0xAF
Min: 10
Max: 67
Avg: 36


Company of Heroes Built in Stress Test

1920x1080 All settings on Max No AA and I assume DX10 (not specified anywhere)
Min: 19.7
Max: 59.4
Avg: 35.6

However, not playable at these settings judging by performance on the Lyon city skirmish map where it wavered between 20 and 30.

Street Fighter IV Benchmark tool

1920x1080 All high No AA Vsync off
Score 11018 Rank A
Avg: 105.53

Vysnc on and no AA is playable at a constant 59FPS
Vysnc off and c16x AA is playable at a near constant 62FPS - only drops to around 45 during ultra attacks so shouldn't affect gameplay too much


GTA4 Built in Benchmark

1920x1080 All High View Distance: 40 Detail Distance: 40 Vehicle Density: 40 Shadow Density: 1 Definition: On Vsync: Off
Avg: 46.60 FPS
CPU: 56%
Memory: 75%
Video Memory: 92%

Burnout Paradise:Ultimate Box

1920x1080 All settings set to highest 8xAA and AASO turned off (FPS took a hit down to 21 if I enabled this feature)
Constant 59FPS

Half Life 2: Lost Coast Built in Video Stress Test (Min and Max where not officially recorded, merely what I saw)

1920x1080 6x AA 16x AF Vsync Disabled All other settings set to Max or turned on
Min:82
Max:242
Avg:168.22

Batman: AA built in Benchmark - May have to repeat these as I think I accidentally left Vsync on (turning it off only added 3/4 FPS in game though which is weird)

1920x1080 No AA - All high and Physx disabled
Min: 42
Max: 57
Avg: 54

1920x1080 No AA - All High and Physx Max
Min: 18
Max: 59
Avg: 33

Devil May Cry 4 built in Benchmark

1920x1080 DirectX10 16x AA All set to Super High
Scene 1: 70.65
Scene 2: 48.19
Scene 3: 84.15
Scene 4: 52.07

Resident Evil 5 DirectX 10 benchmark tool

1920x1080 No AA all settings on High (motion blur on)

Variable:
Scene 1: 54.9
Scene 2: 56.0
Scene 3: 47.1
Scene 4: 53.5

Fixed:
Avg: 53.9

Wings of Prey Averages taken from gameplay

1920x1080 AF 16x AA 2x Textures set to Ultra-High
Min: 27
Max: 74
Avg: 52

Bioshock Averages taken from Gameplay (framerate locked)

1920x1080 All settings on highest (I assume it was DX10 mode but couldn't see that specified anywhere)
Min: 30
Max: 59
Avg: 59

 

For comparisons. Benchmarks are nothing if you got nothing to compare to

Ken at GenTech PC posted his overclocked Vantage for the Sager 8690 with i7 920 extreme.


HD5870 on a G73 with a price that suggest it's a mid-range, scratch that, introductory gamer laptop. So cheap.

ViciousXUSMC gaming bench for Batman (Stock Settings/9.12 Drivers)


ViciousXUSMC gaming bench for Dragon Age (Stock/New 10.3 Drivers)


My overclocked 800/1100 Vantage score (10.3 Drivers)

 

That's gonna be quite a while...

 

In my mind I was already comparing it to the 5870 - assumed everyone else would be too

Just played Crysis for the first time ever - full 1920x1080 at all high and it ran smoothly at over 30FPS - even cranked up the post processing effects to very high and it didn't falter much. Let me turn fraps back on and I'll go at it again - proper min avg max FPS benchmarks to follow

 

the 5870 will crash the 285m. i had the 280m gtx sli. and the 280m gtx single and overclock isn't comparable to the 5870 single.

 

Not necessarily - all those games that are better optimised for Nivida cards might actually run better. And if the 5870 really is 20/25% faster than the 280, you should remember than in game performance for the 285 is around 15% faster than the 280m. Thus making the 5870 only 5/10% faster at most on some games - at least the ones I've tried so far.

Well, Dirt 2 on Ultra at 1920x1080 seems to be running pretty well - no drops below 30FPS.

Then again, post processing above medium is locked out for me as its only a DX10 card so not completely comparable with the 5870.

Again, sorry for the lack of real benchmarks - never had a gaming PC before so am having a massive gaming session before I move on with the important stuff.

 

Great.
You gonna run all benchmarks at full res?
Should be fun to see what the results are.

 

ViciousXUSMC stock setting using slower 9.12 Catalyst
- DX11 with Ultra Settings
- With 10.3, ViciousXUSMC reported getting averate 30-32 FPS with Ultra DX11.
- On high with no AA Dirt 2 gets around average 45 FPS.



My Crysis Benchmark with Catalyst 10.3 and GPU O/C 800/1100

 

GTA IV patched to 1.0.04 at the following settings:

Make sure Clip Capture is: Off

Video Mode: 1920 x 1080
Aspect ratio: Auto
Texture Quality: High
Reflection Resolution: High
Water Quality: High
Texture Filter Quality: High
View Distance: 40
Detail Distance: 40
Vehicle Density: 40
Shadow Density: 1
Definition: On
Vsync: Off

Note: My Nvidia Control panel is set to overall global graphic quality High
and my settings are as above apart from my native resolution being 1600x900 and my CPU being the 1.73 Ghz Core i7-820QM.

The following are my benchmark results:

With Realizm IV 6.2 Installed I get:

With the Original GTA IV install I get:

Some how the Realizm IV 6.2 Mod not only makes my game look much better, but it also adds another 10 fps or so. I tested this many times with the same result so it is not a fluke or anomaly.

Edit: I will redo the benchmarks with the Realizm IV enabled later on, but with all of my scripts disabled because they can take up a lot of CPU cycles and slightly reduce performance.

 

Will do all that soon - how best to go about it though? I'll probs use Fraps but is there any specific settings I should enable? How long should I have it run for (currently have it set to 180 seconds)?

 

caqn people run a couple games and max it out. 1920*1200 preferbly but not everyone has that res so its cool. but games like

prototype
ninja blade
bionic commando
farcry2
dmc4

and many more real game instead of syntenic benchmarks.

 

Use benchmark tools and post the results. Many games have benchmarks so you can figure out what settings to play at. Don't record with Fraps as that uses a lot of your resources.

 

dont record just use the benchmarking part and it will save your stuff.

 

GTA IV has a built in benchmark under Graphics settings, the settings I used are in my post. Many games have built in benchmarks such as GTA IV, Supreme Commander, Arma 2, Batman - Arkham Asylum, Far Cry 2, Company Of Heroes, World In Conflict, Resident Evil 5, the new Stalker, probably the older version too and many more that I can't remember.

 

i have some runs myself of re5 with my 9800m gtx and 280m but only in sli. i would like to see what single card can do.

 

Sure thing - I'll install DMC4 for you soon and run that - off to run the batman benchmark now and I'll post that soon.

 

thanks man.

 

Batman Benchmark added - installing DMC4 as I type

Argh - The CD key box at the back of the manual is blank... That may be an issue...

 

you put mix instead of min. lol.

also farcry2 even though with my 280m single stock i got 40fps average and my 9800m i got 30 stock and 40fps overclocked.

what other games you have.

pm'd about issue

 

I have A LOTof games - bought 28 over the past 2 months in preparation for the arrival of this laptop...

Just downloaded the RE5 benchmark and will install this once I've installed DMC4.

Games I'll also benchmark for you guys if people show interest:

Borderlands
DMC4
Batman: AA
Crysis
Crysis Warhead
Empire: Total War
Medieval 2: Total War
Mirror's Edge
FEAR
Cryostasis
World in Conflict
Dragon Age
Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect
Assassin's Creed
The Orange Box
UT3
Zenloclash
Dirt 2
Left 4 Dead
Bioshock
Burnout
Company of Heroes
Dead Space
The Witcher
STALKER

 

oh man. the more the better. but i know you want to enjoy your laptop as well. we can compare gpu's if you like also. i have most of them. not all.
i dont have batman yet but can you do a maxed out 8aa run also.

 

With or without Physx?

I put up DMC4 just now - 16x AA seemed a bit excessive but it works well. Annoyingly dips below 50FPS at some points though. Probs work fine with 8x instead.

Will do the Resi 5 bench after dinner - I'll have it up in around 45 minutes

 

no dmc4 is a real stress with 16x. but put it up anyway. the more the better.

 

Put up with 16x - trying to open the resi 5 benchmark tool now but its being weird.

Also, just noticed that the laptop was set to 'balanced' power mode. I remember that my old laptop's performance would be crippled under anything but high performance and while I've switched to that now with this one, do you think it could have impacted the results at all?

 

Can you do 3dmark benchmarks as well?

 

Sure - let me download the programmes.

Posted the RE5 benchmark and am currently downloading steam games (namely GTA4) to bench next. Might do a Crysis run later this evening once I'm done wth Steam.

 

thanks. with re5 can you do aa and no aa.

 

Done with no AA - how much do you want me to add? And do you want the variable bench or fixed? I'm guessing the former as that's better for true to life gaming comparison

 

variable it is more real world.

 

OK - 2x AA or 4x AA? More?

 

no aa and 8aa. i dont think you can choose 16aa

 

I'll do that later tomorrow.

Just played some Mass Effect 2 - runs like a dream maxed out at around a constant 53FPS in combat. Loving it so far

 

nice nice. have some fun with your machine just when you fire up a game, tell us what you get.

also what driver are you using?

 

Driver at version 8.16.11.8771

Tried running borderlands right now but it went terribly - can't even get the FPS into the double digits. If I can run Crysis on High, I must be able to max out this game. Any idea what's up? Apparently my Graphics Card drivers are up to date so it's not that...

 

i havent tried that driver. try using the most up to dat driver and see what happens. i never tried borderlands on my 280m but my 4870 ran it fine i think it is a driver issue.

 

Apparently that is the most up to date one - at least that's what windows told me when I tried updating it...

Borderlands runs fine now - just had to patch it (was on v1.0 previously) and now runs at around 40FPS average all maxed out at 1920x1080, yet to dip below 30FPS and I'm 2 hours into it.

 

good to hear.

dont forget to update your original post.

 

Your Driver version is 187.71 most likely.

 

It's definetely 187.71. I think that's Clevo driver. You can try other drivers from lv2go.com, just don't try latest nvidia, 19x.xx, as the powermizer doesn't work.

 

Thanks for the info. Batman keeps telling me that my drivers aren't up to date which is kinda annoying but other than that everything seems to be working fine so I'm in no rush to tinker with them yet. Still, slightly disappointed at how much the 5870 is beating the 285m in some places though (DMC4 by 20/30% although in RE5 its only about 10% and Batman seems equal).

 

as long as you are happy with your machine and can max out all the game you want to play, dont look at other machines. i would of put up runs of my 4870 crossfire, 9800m gtx, 280m gtx sli, and 3870 crossfire but i'm just observing. so keep at it.

 

I'm pretty happy, not gonna lie - haven't played PC games in over 3 years so the fact I can run them at all makes me happy.

More benchmarks uploaded btw

 

Well it should since 2K Games thought it was a swell idea to force every PC gamer to sit there for 30 seconds watching that idotic bot banging on the Nvidia logo.

 

Oh man that drives me INSANE - if those video files can be deleted/replaced, they are SO going in my recycling bin

 

Hey screw you guys, I like that video. It makes me proud to be green.

 

Courtesy of Quagmire. He'll be posting Bad Company 2 soon.

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Well instead of crying , why not return this and get an Asus G73?

 

Aside from the expected long wait to get one, he'd probably get some money back also. But this is a good thread to see what's up with the current 285.

I'd expect the next mobile series to be rebranded again, no idea if DX11 compliant but hopefully better. But doubt it will run as cool as or energy efficient as the HD5870.

 

I thought you were red.

 

You have more upgrade potential in the W860CU with the MXM 3.0B format compared to the Asus G73 because the Asus has a proprietary format. You also have the potential of installing the 5870 into your Sager anyway.

Either way, you are getting really good performance so I wouldn't worry about it.