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Hands On With Nvidia's New GTX 280 Card

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that-time-of-year-again dept.

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.'"

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  1. Vista cuts performance... by corsec67 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.


    Why would Vista make the performance gains so much less? I could see XP running say 20% better with both cards, but why does Vista penalize the new card so much?

    Digital Restrictions Management strikes again, I guess...

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    1. Re:Vista cuts performance... by steveaustin1971 · · Score: 0, Troll

      Why would anyone concerned about performance EVER install Vista to begin with? for directX games XP works MUCH faster, and has fewer issues... as far as I'm concerned Vista is just another layer of bloat.

  2. can't... resist... by tripmine · · Score: 0, Troll

    But does it run Crysis on full? I mean, can it REALLY?

  3. Re:Power vs Intel by Lord+Ender · · Score: 1, Troll

    Why is parallelism embarrassing?

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