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Review: GeForce GTX 280

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

◆HD video playback test

We can not see any new stuffs in the playback ability of GTX 280, the card still keeps the VP2 engine with not thing changed. For showing off its hardware decoding ability we only use Intel Celeron 460 (2.4GHz, 12*200MHz) .

As usual, we use three video clips in the test, the video is De javu in VC-1, X-MAN3 in H264/AVC and Pioneer_DEMO2006 in MPEG-2.

From CPU utilization we can see the card have the same hardware decoding level with other G92 cards, that means G200 have full H.264 decoding support.

But in real world usages GTX 280 certainly won’t use with a Celeron 420, so the CPU utilization won’t as bad as the chart you see above. That’s why NVIDIA did not add fully 100% support for VC-1 and MPEG-2 codec.

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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