Official GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 reviews thread!

[G-Man]

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[K007]

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i like those yellow numbers...i can live with that for that price i think..

[brady]

Still nobody knows where these came from. I'm not saying they're outright fakes, but I sure would like a source on these. If we take tweaktown's 4850 review and the Crysis DX10 Very High benchmark numbers we can calculate how much better the 4870 must be to meet and beat the 280.

The 280, in that review, is getting 21.7fps in Crysis, VH, DX10, 1920x1200. For the 4870 to match exactly the performance of the 280 it will need to perform 52% better than the 4850. For it to outperform the 280 and get, say 25fps, it would need to perform 75% better than the 4850.

Unfortunately, there are no 4850 numbers on the above supposed AMD benchmarks so we can't calculate a percent gain for the 4870 since we don't know if these numbers we aquired using the same benchmark conditions. However, given all that, these numbers actually look pretty realistic, and pretty good. If they true out to be pretty accurate I certainly hope they drive prices down because I still would prefer having a 280 since it still appears to yield the highest single GPU performance you can get.

[Revs]

At last, a GTX260 SLI Review

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&u=http://pic.it.com.cn/f/diy/086/24/614137.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=4&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgtx260%2Bsli%2Breview%26start%3D30%26 hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3Dcom.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox%26rlz%3D1I7ADBR%26sa%3DN

80-90% increase from the second card :)

[nekrosoft13]

that is nice, 80-90%

[G-Man]

http://en.expreview.com/img/review/hd4800/crysis_02.png

[nekrosoft13]

dude, we saw already

[Blacklash]

Looks like PhysX is going to have a larger impact in the near future-

"We also spoke with Brian Burke (Senior PR Manager) and Roy Taylor (Vice President of Developer Relations) on the phone and they had a ton of things to say about PhysX and were obviously all for it. They were happy to announce that 14 to 16 new PhysX game titles would be available before Christmas and double that next summer."

Source:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/733/1/

[Blacklash]

More on PhysX here-

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=584

[MrHydes]

GT200 Physx beats QX9650


http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/470/bigcpuphysxlj1.th.jpg (http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bigcpuphysxlj1.jpg) http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/1407/biggpuphysxew8.th.jpg (http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=biggpuphysxew8.jpg)

Left - CPU Physics Processing, Right - GPU PhysX Processing
Source: 3DMark Vantage

Test Notes: 3DMark Vantage tested in "Performance" preset mode, with and
without GPU PhysX enabled, on Core 2 Extreme QX6850 powered test system
running Windows Vista Ultimate with the Forceware v177.39 graphics drivers
and v8.06.12 PhysX drivers on a pair of GeForce 9800 GTX+ cards running in
SLI mode. With GPU PhysX disabled, the overall 3DMark Vantage score is
P11720 with a CPU Test 2 score of 14.95 FPS. With GPU PhysX enabled, the
overall score jumps to P14298 with a CPU Test 2 score of 127.77 FPS

Source:tweaktown (http://www.tweaktown.com/news/9728/nvidia_responds_to_gpu_physx_cheating_allegationsi ndex.html)


amazing this physx support, and the influence in futuremark tests
intel QX9650 is completely beaten by GT200 with physx enabled!

[Blacklash]

Never mind. It was already posted.

[Revs]

For the price of a 280 you could almost get two 260's :D. They're awesome in SLI!

[Blacklash]

For the price of a 280 you could almost get two 260's :D. They're awesome in SLI!

I play 1920x and was looking @ this-

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1481/6/page_6_benchmarks_pt_boats_knights_of_the_sea/index.html

That's a GTX 260 @ 640|2300 keeping pace with an overclocked GTX 280.

I can still refund mine and may very well do so to get a 260 to OC.

[slaWter]

For the price of a 280 you could almost get two 260's :D. They're awesome in SLI!

But you need a nV board... :(

[SH64]

But you need a nV board... :(
& you are going to suffer the SLI issues.

a single GTX280 for me please!

[Revs]

& you are going to suffer the SLI issues.

a single GTX280 for me please!

Been using SLI for 18 months now and had very few issues. The early Vista days were a bit poo because of the drivers, but I currently have no issues at all with SLI. As for the mobo, it's faultless. I admit the 680i chipset was pretty pap (I got it swapped for this one for free) but the only issue I've had with the 780i is the video corruption issue, which is now sorted.

SLI is the only way to play Crysis on VH at the res I use ;). Also with these new cards there has been no micro-stutter at all :).

[Blacklash]

EDIT:

As far as 790i goes the first BIOS I used blew. The latest from XFX and Evga rock. I have zero stability problems and my Q6600 is doing fine. If something odd or terrible happens, I'll certainly sound off about it.

[Blacklash]

Hexus just did a review of a GTX 260 @ 640 on the core. The GTX 280 in the review is @ 615-

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=14144&page=1

[12axing]

Just experienced, that atis demo "Whiteout" runs fine on my geforce gtx 280 ( http://ati.amd.com/developer/demos/rhd2000.html ). The lack of shading processors seems to be the only reason, why it did not run on my geforce 9800 gtx ...

[MisterMister]

I have zero issues with my OC'd SLI 9600GT set up as well. Going on 3 months with not a single problem.

[Blacklash]

Overclocked GTX 260 review-

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/evga_gtx260/

[Blacklash]

Driverheaven just put up a review for overclocked GTX 280s-

http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=586

[Blacklash]

Bit-tech has a review up. It's got all the latest cards-

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/07/11/summer-2008-graphics-performance-roundup/1

[Ambrose]

Bit-tech has a review up. It's got all the latest cards-

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/07/11/summer-2008-graphics-performance-roundup/1

Hmm, better Crysis performance on the GTX 280 under DX10 @ 1920 x 1200... something is fishy there..

[nekrosoft13]

probably the best review, covers 40+ games

GTX 280, 260 and 4870

http://www.egielda.com.pl/?str=art&id=4400