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gtx 280 reviews thread

Greebo said:
I think the problem as reported on the net is that gpu is so large and complex and the yields so poor that it has to be this price for Nvidia to make a profit.
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Agreed, it's been pointed out on various occasions that the card is very expensive to make.

I think there to an extent banking on the loyalty they have built up since G80 to keep them going, but,the AMD/Intel switch proved a few years ago that there is no loyalty in this market. We will buy what is best for our cash, and if ATi is the one offering that this time, then adios to the green giant as far as am concerned.

Martyn
 
Ill be sticking with my 8800GT for now thanks. handles everything i play nicely at 1650x1050 which is what i play at. That kind of price for a gfx card is just plain silly for the small increase in power it offers.
 
The problem with these cards is simply that the clocks aren't high enough. There's enough memory to go around, tons of shaders and a fantastically optimized core. But the shader's aren't that quick compared to what some 9800 cards are hitting, neither is the core speed, the memory bandwidth is insane though.

This can probably be mitigated by a better process technology, which we already know for a fact that they are working on, i'm sure that even a 15% bump in clock speeds would work wonders. Otherwise better yields etc resulting in price drops and better cards that can then be binned for good factory OC'ed versions will be great. I'm buying a card after the summer holiday, and with the right yields i still might get one of these.
 
I'll still using a 7900GS and it runs GRID nicely on 1152x with AA on. Besides Crysis, are there actually any games out there right now that demand this sort of GPU power?
 
medley said:
I'll still using a 7900GS and it runs GRID nicely on 1152x with AA on. Besides Crysis, are there actually any games out there right now that demand this sort of GPU power?
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Age of Conan does take quite a bit of force to handle, espically if viewing distances are turned up, and that is really a great thing to do in Age of Conan as there are some fantastic terrains. A lot of games are coming up, Far Cry 2, Crysis Warhead, Alan Wake, etc etc that will utilize these new cards.

Folding@home needs it :)
 
Well many games need lots of power to run 1920's, but a GTX/Ultra can handle them with AA+AF if not the 1 badly coded game mentioned above (that patches dont fix and now are dropped from updates) or a few bad Console Ports.

If your on a 8800GTX/Ultra I would say skip these cards.
 
driiiiiiiiiiiivers... same issue with the gtx's when 1st released... give them a few months and they'll start to shine a bit more (and possibly make it worth it, as the prices should have dropped a little then...)

Still looks as though ATI may have the upper hand for a little while though.

/me sit's back and waits
 
thought i'd post some naked photos of the gtx 280:

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Are we likely to see a steady decrease in price in regards to the 8800 Nvidia range? Should be getting a new widescreen tft soon and I'm not a massive spender when it comes to graphics cards.
 
people keep using crysis as the benchmark for a cards power; has anyone considered that crysis might be poorly written and no foreseeable card is going to run it well.
 
smilertoo said:
people keep using crysis as the benchmark for a cards power; has anyone considered that crysis might be poorly written and no foreseeable card is going to run it well.
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There's a few people that have been saying this for a while (myself included) but the majority seem to just ignore it. I think a lot of people could possibly be determined not to like the new cards on offer, or are possibly trying to justify their recent purchases of overpriced graphics cards. Either one of them, or people are just ignorant and don't have a clue about games and graphics cards.
 
think it is because cryis is the only game that taxes cards this may be poor coding or it could be most other games are console level gfx

either way if someone is looking for £500 for a gfx card it should murder crysis or it wont sell
 
With GX2 selling at £300 and faster, nVidia must be nuts thinking people would buy their new offerings at that price :eek: I'm gonna stick with my 8800GTX for a lot longer now unless ATI can offer something much faster at sub £200 :D
 
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