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GT200 GTX280/260 "official specs"

Sooooooo disappointed. I'm coming up on 18 months now on my o/c E6600 at 3.6 and 8800GTX at 625/1625/2000. I'd hoped it was about time for a mid life upgrade to a GT200 generation GPU and Q9XXX quad core, and disappointingly (from a gadget point of view) it still seems hard to justify.

Having said that it means my original spend has been one of the best high end PC component investments I've ever made in terms of performance over time.

I'm starting to wonder if there is anything truely step changing on the horizon, or if the future of high end gaming is going to slip towards dedicated hardware (consoles) and the PC will return to a general purpose mid power range device.
 
Well considering the 4870 has more theoretical pushing power than the entire PS3 (iirc), I wouldn't be inclined to believe high-end gaming will return to games consoles any time soon. In terms of single-core performance, the GTX280 is actually doing pretty damned well, not nearly as well as we'd hoped, but it's a large gap nonetheless. Then, the 4800 series seem to be doing much better than we'd first anticipated as well.
 
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;_;
 
wolvers69 said:
Mate, I know what you're saying but that's a double gpu card. I was really hoping that we'd see the performance of a GX2, or better, with the power usage of an 8800GTX.

Where's the incentive to upgrade from your GX2 or GTX sli set up? Unless you're mremulator and sli these!!.
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i dont really see what your issue with the card is. its virtually the same increase in performance again that the 8800gtx was over the 7900, with a tiny 30w increase in power usage and less at idle, all while still at 65nm. you are basically getting near twice the performance for what? 15-20% more power? that is a great achievement.

If these bechies are true, then the 3870X2 looks like really good value at £230...........unless you want to play crysis
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when the 3870x2 is slower almost across the board (by quite a way at higher resolutions) and uses the most power out of all the cards? where's the logic in that?
 
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I think the pictures emphesis is on the cards eg sli and tri-sli

So in sli the pic depicts a smaller critter but still looks beefy lol

Whereas the tri-sli has more poke/go/power etc so he depicted it as a large panda alike to a grand-master figure

Ciao

Def
 
james.miller said:
i dont really see what your issue with the card is. its virtually the same increase in performance again that the 8800gtx was over the 7900, with a tiny 30w increase in power usage and less at idle, all while still at 65nm. you are basically getting near twice the performance for what? 15-20% more power? that is a great achievement.
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I don't have an issue as such, I just think that it shows that the 55nm version would be worth waiting for if you care about power consumption.

It just seems a shame to me that cpus are getting faster and at the same time using less power but they don't seem to be able to do the same with gpus.

I'm not a tree huger or anything (far from it in fact!), it's just an observation.
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
would be nice if the 280 was a 100% boost but its not even 20% quicker in most the benches shown.. so still poor
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It is pretty much a 100% percent boost, over the 8800's, a 100% boost over the 9800gx2's (Dual GPU don't forget) would be crazy, that would practically make the gtx280 quad sli in performance (4x8800's) on a single GPU, personally going on the few benches that we have available the performance isn't that bad at all but I did expect a bigger jump in Crysis, thats where I feel let down.
 
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