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GT200 GTX280/260 "official specs"
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You should considering that two 8800 GT's will cost half as much but perform about the same. The GTX280 is very nice from a technical perspective, but then so are a lot of tech demos.
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Yes I agree, the price is the critical factor here, after looking over the bench marks in an ideal world I think a fair price for the card would be £350.
You need to ignore 3dmark06 from now on IMHO, it was crazily cpu bound in the end and is not a good gauge of current or next gen graphics card performance*.
I must say the idea in vantage of having the 4 presets is a good one, shame it looks like turd even on the xtreme preset.
*Unless running 1920x1200+ with 4xaa
Agreed, its competing against the 9800gx2 but has more ram and ram bandwidth and is a more elegant solution - that is worth a premium but not a £150 premium
I don't play games.
Its the 7950GX2 and 8800 GTX all over again.
Although the leap in perfromance between the GX2 and GTX280 does not seem as big.
The difference is that the GTX280 doesn't really add anything over the 9800 GX2, they trade places performance wise and seem to draw a similar amount of power, Nvidia didn't even so much as include DX10.1; something even S3 has accomplished to this date with their 430 GT and 440 GTX products. The 7950 GX2 performed on par with the 8800 GTS, meaning the 8800 GTX had a decent amount of performance over it, and at that time SLi wasn't nearly as mature as it is today.
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tweaked versions of these cards arent due until middle of next year apparently, long time.
well looks like im not budging till then possibly
well looks like im not budging till then possibly
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Pricings going to be the big factor, GX2's are only £299 ex VAT on here, can't see the 280's being that low tbh.
The point is that your 3Dmark score is barely going to go up with any card, its CPU bound because of the low res it runs at.
Also, its funny to see the 3000% increase over the 9800GTX at 2560x1600, rofl, obviously a result of the VRAM running out on the old card
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http://vr-zone.com/articles/Power_Consumption_Tests_For_GTX_280_SLI/5870.html
Summary:
Total system power consumption at load:
Single GTX280: 292.2W
SLi GTX280: 508W
This does indeed show that the card is drawing around 200W. :\
Nice vantage scores, though.
Summary:
Total system power consumption at load:
Single GTX280: 292.2W
SLi GTX280: 508W
This does indeed show that the card is drawing around 200W. :\
Nice vantage scores, though.
does anyone think that Nv will release a new set of driver that make all these pre release benches obsolete.....obviously not a magical 50% increase ...but a more modest sensible amount, but still enough to make all the sites have to rebench them....?
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One would hope so
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Are these released tomorrow or Tuesday, as didn't the 4800's start at Monday the 16th with the GT200's being Wed 18th, but then they moved em to the 17th which is Tuesday. 