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Beyond Gaming - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 1GB GDDR3

By Vincent Chang - 16 Jun 2008

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After what we saw of the GTX 280 in the Windows XP test, we decided to notch it up for the Windows Vista run. This meant changing the settings to Very High, which led to quite a drastic drop in frame rates for all the cards. The dual-GPU GeForce 9800 GX2 turned out to handle it better than the rest and handily beat the GTX 280. After all, the GeForce 9800 GX2 does actually have higher clocks and more processing units than the single GTX 280, so this sort of outcome is no stranger to us.

The GTX 280 however managed to secure second place while the two Radeon HD 3870 X2 in CrossFireX seemed to have some issues here, with the 4 GPUs solution faring similar or worse than a single Radeon HD 3870 X2. With anti-aliasing enabled, the GTX 280 showed its potential while for some reason, our GeForce 9800 GX2 and GTX kept crashing and hence were unable to finish the benchmark.

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