Official GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 reviews thread!

[Buckeye]

From what I can tell so far the Quad GX2's go toe to toe with GTX280's in SLI, on most cases.

I have that and not really worth upgrading atm. Plus the fact that you can get the Quad setup much cheaper that 2x GTX280's if they are going for $649.

If I only had 8800GTX or 8800GTX Ulta's then I might upgrade, but they Ultra's are still dang nice cards and can handle everything out there just fine.

Bottom line I think if these cards are going for $649 price range than that's a big "Fail".

That would be $1,947 plus Tax/Shipping for a TRI-SLI setup !! say nothing of the PSU required to run that and the Rig that would be need to feed those babies.

At the Egg $979.98 for Quad SLI.

[MUYA]

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/gtx280/

[MUYA]

http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=614

[MUYA]

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/xfx_gtx280/

[MUYA]

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/gpu_displays/nvidia_gtx_280_performance_revealed_-_msi_n280gtx/1

[spajdr]

http://media.bestofmicro.com/H/G/110788/original/image034.png

[Lfctony]

Go MUYA!!! :p

[MUYA]

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2320089,00.asp

[MUYA]

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=13736

[MUYA]

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=3&id=2593

[DSC]

The GTX 280 isn't clocked high enough to best the 9800 GX2. If you already run a 9800GTX SLI setup or GX2 card I'd skip GTX 280 and wait for the GT200b 55nm card, hopefully drivers improved by then and Nvidia clocks the core and shader clock sky high and use GDDR5 memory too, 200GB or even more of bandwidth is :drooling:

[Bman212121]

From what I've noticed so far the GX2 can edge out the GTX 280 on the lower end in about half of the games, the GTX 280 looks to win the other half. The biggest difference is that any test I've seen that uses AA / AF is when the GTX 280 is on top. Other than COD4 which seems kind of odd performance wise, once you add AA on higher resolutions the GTX 280 comes out on top.

EDIT: FS seems to not have an issue in COD4, and it runs better than a GX2. http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_geforce_gtx_280_260_performance/page9.asp

[jAkUp]

Also chrisRay mention that with SLI they are no more hitches and micro stuttering with GTXes :)

Yup, that was the biggest difference I noti, honostly, the difference I cannot explain in FPS or graphs, overall the GTX 280's just feel much smoother.

[Badboy_12345]

a card that costs less and is older is better than GTX280...

And the prices will be coming down on the 9800GX2 when the GTX280 is released.

Lol what crap :p

Im going for the GX2 then when the prices come down. wth were they thinking?

[MUYA]

http://legitreviews.com/article/726/1/

[nekrosoft13]

a card that costs less and is older is better than GTX280...

And the prices will be coming down on the 9800GX2 when the GTX280 is released.

Lol what crap :p

Im going for the GX2 then when the prices come down. wth were they thinking?

same here, i will wait to see ATI reviews, if also nothing special, i'm going to buy GX2 then.

GTX 280 should cost no more then 450 to match it in price with GX2

[Badboy_12345]

same here, i will wait to see ATI reviews, if also nothing special, i'm going to buy GX2 then.

GTX 280 should cost no more then 450 to match it in price with GX2

Yeah Im waiting for the 4870 reviews also

but as it is now the nvidia 200 series is a big disappointment. They are priced totally wrong for the performance. And its not the 9800GX2 is an ATI card its their own. I really dont know how they came to this decision.

[weeds]

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_geforce_gtx_280_260_performance/
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=579

[slaWter]

Funny thing is, the GX2 was also a "huge disappointment" back when it was released and suddenly it's the best card around...

[CaptNKILL]

Meh, not enough of an improvement for me to consider buying one.

The only current game that gives me any significant performance problems is Crysis and 10 more fps average is about a quarter of what is needed to smooth that game out.

Looks like I'm saving $600 this time around. :lol:

[Fotis]

Numbers look good.Probably a few driver revisions to reach its full potential.

[mullet]

Funny thing is, the GX2 was also a "huge disappointment" back when it was released and suddenly it's the best card around...

:thumbsup:

[mcolbourn]

I guess we have to wait for a few driver releases to start getting the best out of the card.

[LordJuanlo]

I'm disappointed with those tests, so I'm not upgrading yet. €550 for those cards is a complete ripoff, similar performance than 9800GX2 (and worse in some cases).

Booooo

[Bman212121]

Funny thing is, the GX2 was also a "huge disappointment" back when it was released and suddenly it's the best card around...

Actually what I think is ironic is that everyone is complaining about a card that fixes all of the things that people didn't like with the GX2. They both offer similiar performance which should be expected when they both came out in the same timeframe.

Just think if the GX2 never surfaced there would only be benchmarks between the 9800GTX or 8800GTX versus the GTX 280. Everyone would be raving about the massive gains that are present. :p