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What to use for comparison?

Soldato
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Okay, I have a 55nm GTX260 SSC sitting waiting to be installed, and currently run a 8800GTX KO.

I plan on changing out my current board for the IP35Pro that's sitting beside me too (and will hopefully get more out of my CPU), but in the meantime, I am going to install the 260 to compare it's performance to the 8800.

So, with that in mind, what are the best/easiest things to run to compare the 2? I have pretty much all the recent games etc, and 3dMark06, but no Vantage (still on XP for now).

Once I know what to run, i'll fire them through on the 8800 then throw in the 260 (and probably be pretty disappointed too, but oh well) and post the results.
 
3dmark is a good start, you could also use fraps, load it up, then load up a game, and fraps will tell you your frames per second, which will give you a good in game comparison
 
3dmark06 will not really give you a good comparison it would have to be vantage. 06 is pretty outdated now and the new cards don't get much better scores than older 8800 series. Crysis would be a decent game to have a look at.
 
Hey Diggsy,

Give the Far Cry timedemo benchmark a blast. No one seems to have done a Far Cry 2 version, should be good for a laugh if nothing else.

3Dmark scores are a wast of time IMO futuremark are under Nvidia's thumb so it lost its integrity as a benchmark.

Game run-through's are the best benchmark, run what you have.
 
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