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Hands On With Nvidia's New GTX 280 Card
notdagreatbrain writes "Maximum PC magazine has early benchmarks on Nvidia's newest GPU architecture — the GTX 200 series. Benchmarks on the smokin' fast processor reveal a graphics card that can finally tame Crysis at 1900x1200.
'The GTX 280 delivered real-world benchmark numbers nearly 50 percent faster than a single GeForce 9800 GTX running on Windows XP, and it was 23 percent faster than that card running on Vista. In fact, it looks as though a single GTX 280 will be comparable to — and in some cases beat — two 9800 GTX cards running in SLI, a fact that explains why Nvidia expects the 9800 GX2 to fade from the scene rather quickly.'"
From the look of the benckmarks, neither the SLI 9800's nor the new card tame crysis at all. You can't make a poorly coded game fluid with more power I guess.
Vista is a slow, crawly, disgusting vomited animal. And people are buying that slow crap from microsoft as it's the second coming of christ.
Send your spendthrift head of state this
Blah blah, more trolling. Try developing games or visualization apps sometime. You will come to appreciate how ridiculously superior (albeit closed) DirectX is compared to OpenGL. Open source apologists tend to defend OpenGL's shittiness despite all evidence to the contrary, but from an objective, developer-ease point of view, there's simply no comparison.
There are also plenty of cards that ship with crappy OpenGL drivers, increasingly moreso thanks to the decline in popularity of OpenGL. DirectX is fairly well defined, and is one of those few products where I honestly believe that MS won the market share fair and square.