"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"
“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”
