I installed the latest version of Galaxy's Xtreme Tuner HD application to overclock the 2GB GT 440. The stock clocks for this card are 810/500 and I was able to increase them to 975/560 without increasing the voltage. I did increase the fan speed to 50% since I noticed the auto setting would never increase the fan speed over 33%. This overclock represents a 20.37% increase in the core clock speed, and 12% increase in the memory clock speed.
The Unigine Heaven Benchmark is a very well featured benchmark designed for testing DirectX 11 performance. The benchmark winds the camera through a beautiful floating island that has been designed to show the amazing detail that can be built into a properly designed DirectX 11 game.
The tesselation level was set to Normal and the other settings used in the benchmark are as follows:
This benchmark is not easy to run and these results show that. The quality was set to low, the resolution was set to 1365x768 and all the options like refraction and volumetric shadows were turned off. The overclock managed to improve the average frame rate by 14.6%.
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Like you said, a good average gaming card but I am not getting the point of it's price range of $109.99 since (at least around here) you can nab a GTS 450 1gb for the same price or if you dont mind waiting for a $25 rebate you can get a 550Ti 1gb for only $15 more (after rebate) which will vastly out perform it unless you really badly want 2gb of vram at a low price.
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Nice to see a review come out of the GPUReview labs though! :)
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I don't place any value on AIB's that load such cards with 2Gb especially when only a 64-Bit interface. I think it fruitless to review a card and not have its' contemporary competition in performance, features, and price to contrast it against. That said, either the 6570 2Gb (recently an Egg deal for $50 -AR) or the plethora of 6670 DDR3 1Gb for $60-AR, this just can't be a good place to put hard earn cash.
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