What to use for comparison?

[Diggsy]

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.

 

[95thrifles]

3dmark should give you a good guide

 

[lunarwolf]

not a benchmark fan myself, would rather test real life situation and see fps go up in a game

crysis, far cry 2 etc...

 

[Bradley8988]

3d mrk06 and maybe farcry2

 

[nalla]

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

 

[TheRealDeal]

3dmark06 will not really give you a good comparison it would have to be vantage. 06 is pretty outdated now and the new cards don't get much better scores than older 8800 series.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.

 

[jigger]

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.