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Review: GeForce GTX 280

June 18th, 2008 by Jeff Brand, Graphics, NVIDIA7 Comments

â—† GeForce GTX 280: a closer look, part 2

GTX 280 VRM comparison with 9800GTX

VT1165MF VRM  controller, supports up to 6 phase VRM

five VT1165SF+2 VT238AWF including mosfet and control curcit, make it 5+2 phase VRM modules.

GTX 280 core: 576mm2

NVIO chips

We first saw the chip in G80 series cards, after NVIDIA refleash its processing technology to 65nm and begin to debut G92 product, funtions of the chip have been move in-die. But this time GTX 200 have such a huge die with full of SP, no place for it so we see NVIO again. The chip supports TMDS and dual 400MHz RAMDAC and two Dual link XHD DVI output.

EMI Shields of DVI connectors

Page 1: GTX 280: A closer look
Page 2: GTX 280: A closer look part 2
Page 3: GTX 280: cooler
Page 4: Test Platform setup
Page 5: GTX 280 vs 9800GX2
Page 6: GTX 280 vs Radeon HD 3870X2
Page 7: HD video playback test
Page 8: GeForce GTX 280 power consumption test
Page 9: GeForce GTX 280 temperature and overclock test
Page 10: Final words

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7 Responses to “Review: GeForce GTX 280”

  1. The Geeks Of 3D » Another GeForce GTX 280 Review… Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

    [...] Read the complete review HERE [...]

  2. Anon Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    What is the default fan speed?

  3. PSOLORD Says:
    June 18th, 2008 at 6:23 pm

    Good review although i don’t understand why you left out the HD tests of the ATI card.

    Also we clearly see here that the 30% difference of the 4870X2 against the GTX 280 is a result of the bad AA performance of the rv670s.

    Just imagine what will happen once the R700 comes out with the new improved cores. I forsee that 30% to be switched and enlarged!

  4. JEDIMASTER Says:
    June 19th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    Since it is possible to use 55nm on the GTX 280/260 it is possible to increase the numbers of transistors and initial sizes of the core and they would hopefully create a GTX 280/260ULTRA or even better, a GX2

  5. TC Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 3:30 am

    Yet Nvidia STILL lags behind ATI for using the latest technology. STILL no Directx 10.1, STILL no Shader model 4.1. Both of which are the official standard. I guess their cards just can’t handle it.

  6. Jeff Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 10:46 am

    @PSOLORD,
    we all know that in HD both companies keep the spec unchanged, so we only tested it with older NV cards.

  7. JEDIMASTER Says:
    June 20th, 2008 at 6:30 pm

    I hope I see an ULTRA Sooner or later

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