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Review: GeForce GTX 280

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

◆Test Platform setup:

Forceware 177.34 beta and later driver will enable CUDA support in GTX 280/GTX 260. Because of the driver support issue so driver for GeForce 9800GX2 is 175.16 WHQL. The red team still couldn’t hand out their latest Catalyst 8.6 so HD 3870×2 will be utilize by Catalyst 8.5.

In game settings we open all the available options and drag them to as high as they can. AA and AF depend on game engine, we won’t force it in driver panel. If the game do not have benchmark the result data will be collected through Fraps.

Because all these card (GTX 280, 9800GX2 and HD 3870 X2) are the top cards so we will only run test in 1680×1050 and 1920×1600.

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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