Review: GeForce GTX 280
â—† GeForce GTX 280 temperature and overclock test
In the previous page we have already saw GTX 280 is rally a monster, now we wondering how’s its temperature performance?
GTX 280 core temperature when stressing with ATITool
When we stressing the core in default clock the temperature went up to 83℃, few degrees more than 8800GTS 512MB. It is hot and the cooler is only “enough” for it. If you need a better performance, a after market cooler is at least. The noise level controls quite well, even in high stress mode the noise is acceptable.
After overclock, the card stables at 655/1410/1253MHz (click to enlarge)
Because of some unknown reason, the card can only OC from 602MHz to 655MHz and shader clock raise to 1410MHz, and memory can OC to 1253MHz. The card is barely OCable. But we got our hands on with Zotac GTX 280 AMP! edition, the card’s core frequency raise up to 700MHz and shader keeps 1400MHz, we guess the extra 100MHz core clock will only give few more 3DMark Ventage scores…
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
June 18th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
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June 18th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
What is the default fan speed?
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!
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
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.
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.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
I hope I see an ULTRA Sooner or later