GT200 GTX280/260 "official specs"

[straxusii]

Can't see the point in these, the GX2 is 2x GTS's downclocked to GT speeds, so you may as well buy 2x £100 GT's and slap em in SLi, or 2x GTS's and slap em in SLi, yer saving a fortune, and getting the same peformance just about, as theres only going to be the odd game that doesn't support SLi, so i can't see many worrying about that, not if they gona save around £200.

In my experience nvidia motherboards run like the brown stuff compared to intel. That is why I would be tempted by 9800GX2

 

[LoadsaMoney]

yeah i was gona say, if you had an SLi board etc..., but you can even get the GX2 which doesn't need an SLi board, which is also going to be far cheaper.

This must be the shock that guy was waffling on about, the price of the 9800 GX2 rocketing now that its had a name change, and been rolled into 1x, you would think by turning 2x into 1x the price would fall, not gan up.

 

[straxusii]

yeah i was gona say, if you had an SLi board etc..., but you can even get the GX2 which doesn't need an SLi baord, which is also going to be far cheaper.

Indeed, I game at 1920x1200 and I'm tempted by the GX2 over a GTX280. If I had a 30" monitor then definitely go for the GTX280 for the extra ram size and bus width.

I did try going 8800GT SLI but the 7 series nforce board felt nasty compared to my Intel X38 board.

 

[Richdog]

But the GX2 also relies on SLI profiles... and is a much more inelegant solution. The GT280 will stretch its legs in higher resolutions as newer titles are released that take advantage of the crazy bandwidth and 1GB memory. I think the price will also drop by ~20% when availability increases and the initial gouging subsides... not to mention if ATI turns out to be the stormer we think it'll be and NV are forced to lower prices to compete.

 

[Azza]

This is who I think this card is aimed at... benchers, people with more money than sense & people who like to play Crysis (canny really think why you would though)

 

[Things change I've changed]

A lot of people don't want SLI and don't have an SLI motherboard... any serious overclocker generally has an Intel motherboard, which as you know doesn't support SLI. Add to this some people only buy Nvidia and want the fastest thing available regardless of price and you know it is going to sell by the bucketload.

exactly, also a big thing that puts me off going down the SLI route is not being able to use dual screen effectively, the problem is the same with the gx2 as well, if it wasn't for that I would have purchased it on day one and then I wouldn't of really needed to upgrade now.

people who like to play Crysis (canny really think why you would though)

\0_ Me, I really enjoyed it, why is it so fashionable to criticise that game on here these days ?, plenty of people enjoyed it, I'm not saying it's the best game out but at the same time it's certainly not a poor game by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

I know it does, but SLi is supported in far more games now than it used to be, and the list is growing all the time (unless Nvidia slow SLi support down in games now to get people buying the GT200's), so if it were me, would be GX2, as for me, i wouldn't be worrying about the odd game not being SLi supported, not if i was gona save about £200 or more.

 

[Azza]

\0_ Me, I really enjoyed it, why is it so fashionable to criticise that game on here these days ?, plenty of people enjoyed it, I'm not saying it's the best game out but at the same time it's certainly not a poor game by any stretch of the imagination.

I mean its not really a game that you would go back to play a month later after you stopped playing it, in my opinoin any way.

 

[RavenXXX2]

I know it does, but SLi is supported in far more games now than it used to be, and the list is growing all the time (unless Nvidia slow SLi support down in games now to get people buying the GT200's), so if it were me, would be GX2, as for me, i wouldn't be worrying about the odd game not being SLi supported, not if i was gona save about £200 or more.

Oh man, one minutes its SLI sux balls and XFIRE is the mutt's nutz, now SLI is the best thing since sliced bread i would go with the 200's all the time instead of the GX2, mainly because of the memory interface coupled to the 1GB of ram and no more dodgy SLI profiles to contend with either. New cards from NV are the real deal, you pay for what you gets, look at the spec, its beautiful.

 

[Lightnix]

To be fair, though SLi has improved leaps and bounds since G92 came out. But to say a card that costs £100 more and performs exactly the same is 'beautiful'... Wait why did you use the term 'beautiful'? O_o

 

[Skyboat]

Oh man, one minutes its SLI sux balls and XFIRE is the mutt's nutz, now SLI is the best thing since sliced bread i would go with the 200's all the time instead of the GX2, mainly because of the memory interface coupled to the 1GB of ram and no more dodgy SLI profiles to contend with either. New cards from NV are the real deal, you pay for what you gets, look at the spec, its beautiful.

Ignore Loadsa, he just starts trolling whenever new graphics card rumours flare up again.

 

[kylew]

To be fair, though SLi has improved leaps and bounds since G92 came out. But to say a card that costs £100 more and performs exactly the same is 'beautiful'... Wait why did you use the term 'beautiful'? O_o

Because he's an nvidiphiliac

No matter how NV's cards perform he'll be all over them saying how great they are and so on.

I am actually disappointed by the benchmarks of the 280, it's looking pretty poor for the card it's meant to be, it was supposed to be quite a bit faster than a GX2 going by the specs and SLi dependence. At this rate, it looks like the 4870 is going to get pretty close to it and possibly be just as fast as the GTX260. I can't imagine how fast the 4870X2 is going to be now

 

[fornowagain]

EDIT> The Crysis driver improvements indicated in the info below may be of dubious origin.

Translation > Geforce GTX: 2D-clock, drivers and SLI scaling

 

[Lightnix]

So, to break the 30FPS barrier at 1600x1200 with 4xAA in Crysis on very high, you need to spend around £600 on SLi graphics card. (the GTX260 in this case)

Ouch.

 

[Things change I've changed]

Wait there, let me get this right, SLI GTX 280's, 1920x1200 4xAA & 1xAF only 37.8 in Crysis which we all know in real terms means you can take at least 10fps off that, WOW, I guess we'll have to wait until next, next, next gen before anyone is playing that game smoothly @ high res and AA.

 

[HighlandeR]

Was hoping HDMI audio was gonna be coming out the DVI>HDMI dongle like ATI do I dunno if many are gonna like having to add further seperate cables especially that spif connection, they shoulda copied ATI in that regard which is far better/easier/cheaper.

Am sure many will rush out and get 2 GTX280 cards to run in Sli regardless, if anything its a good move for Nvidia should proove cheaper/better in longrun.

But will be lovely too see ATIs 4870X2, it will proberly edge out the GTX280 and then few weeks if not months later the GTX280-GX2 will arrive and then the whole cycle repeats itself

 

[Shocky-FM]

So, to break the 30FPS barrier at 1600x1200 with 4xAA in Crysis on very high, you need to spend around £600 on SLi graphics card. (the GTX260 in this case)

Ouch.

I'd be quite happy if 1920*1200 is playable with very high with no AA be not honest, that alone is a massive improvement over my 8800GTX.

 

[billybob89]

But with the 55nm supposed to be coming out, tbh who in there right mind is going to spend £600 on a sli setup then have it surpassed by the 55nm a few months down the line.

 

[Strife212]

Wait there, let me get this right, SLI GTX 280's, 1920x1200 4xAA & 1xAF only 37.8 in Crysis which we all know in real terms means you can take at least 10fps off that, WOW, I guess we'll have to wait until next, next, next gen before anyone is playing that game smoothly @ high res and AA.

Everyone flamed the hell out of me when I said you would need Tri SLI GTX 280 to play it properly at those settings.

It was obvious if the current 8800 only gets 10fps.

 

[billybob89]

I would like to know the min and max fps for them benchmarks....