Hardware and Operating System

• Intel Core2 Duo E6600 (2.4Ghz) Processor
• 2 x 1GB OCZ SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 800MHz Memory
• ASUS P5N-E SLI (nForce 650i) Motherboard
• PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 SLI
• Seagate 250GB SATA HDD
• Dell 2405FPW LCD Monitor
• Windows XP Home 32-Bit with Service Pack 3 / DirectX 9.0c

Graphics Cards, Drivers, and Driver Settings

• XFX GeForce 260 GTX - 576MHz Core / 1242MHz Shader / 999MHz Memory (1998MHz Effective)
• ForceWare Beta 180.43
• 32-Bit Color
• Vsync Disabled
• 60Hz Refresh Rate
• Quality Texture Filtering
• Gamma Correct Antialiasing

Test Applications

• 3DMark06 - v1.1.0
• Call of Duty 4 - v1.7
• Fallout 3 - v1.0.0.15
• Far Cry 2 - v1.0
• Race Driver: Grid - v1.2
• World In Conflict Demo

XFX GeForce 260 GTX

3DMark06

Results in 3DMark06 were obtained from the free version of the benchmarking utility, thus the results below utilize the default settings.

3DMark06

I was surprised with the scores obtained here. It would seem with the 11107 3DMarks, the XFX GeForce 260 GTX is barely beating my older XFX GeForce 8800 GT XXX Alpha Dog Edition, which pulled in 10679 3DMarks. However, the fixed 1024x768 resolution of the free version of the benchmark doesn't allow the XFX GeForce 260 GTX to fully flex its muscles. Let's see the game performance results where these two cards are matched head-to-head.

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