ASUS ENGTX260 TOP 896MB (NVIDIA GTX260)
3DMark05, 3DMark06 & 3DMark Vantage
Published: 8th July 2008 | Source: Asus | Price: £220.00 |
3DMark is a popular synthetic gaming benchmark used by many gamers and overclockers to gauge the performance of their PC's. All 3DMark runs were performed a total of 5 times, with the highest and lowest results being removed and an average calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Concentrating on just the GTX260, GTX280 and HD4850 for just one moment, we can see that all three cards are pretty evenly matched when it comes to 3DMark05 at the stock 1024x768 resolution with no anti-aliasing. However, as soon as the resolution is bumped up to 1900x1200, the results disperse with around 1000 points between the GTX280 and GTX260 and a further ~3000 points between the GTX260 and the HD4850.
3DMark06 sees the GTX260 almost side-by-side the dual-GPU 3850x2 in both the stock and 1900x1200 results. This is quite an interesting outcome considering that the 3850x2 is often one of the bottom three cards in our previous tests, so it will certainly be interesting to see if these scores translate to anything in the real game benches over the next few pages.
3DMark Vantage is a brand new application to the OC3D testing suite, and for this reason we were only able to test the cards currently in our possession. As we can see from the results above, even with the ASUS ENGTX260 TOP running at a higher clock and memory speed than the GTX280, it still can't compete with its wider memory bus and additional shader units.
Most Recent Comments
Not bad, 280/260 still look lame compared to the gx2...
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Originally Posted by name='Mr. Smith'
Not bad, 280/260 still look lame compared to the gx2...
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Originally Posted by name='Jim'
Yeah it still rules the roost. Not sure if you've seen recently though but they are dropping off retailers sites like dead flies.
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Oh, nice to the point review!
Edit: Actually - I'm going to have to call you on the conclusion
Now that just ain't true is it padre? GX2 is kingWhile the GTX280 may still be the star of the show when it comes to performance
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Edit: Actually - I'm going to have to call you on the conclusion Now that just ain't true is it padre? GX2 is king |
GX2 has been wiped off the face of the earth dude
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Originally Posted by name='Jim'
Give NVIDIA a call and ask them about the GX2...the response will be "WTF is a 9800GX2...we never made that. Look, check out (insert retailer), nothing there is there...eh...eh? Get with the times man and buy a GTX280 FTW!"
GX2 has been wiped off the face of the earth dude |
Look, you can't argue with your pretty graphs can you? GX2 outperforms the 280. I believe the word you are looking for is pwnt.
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Originally Posted by name='Mr. Smith'
Well, whatever. My Dad would batter your Dad so stfu nublet lmfao.
Look, you can't argue with your pretty graphs can you? GX2 outperforms the 280. I believe the word you are looking for is pwnt. |
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Originally Posted by name='Jim'
What type of batter are we talking about here? I've heard rumours that your dad is that way inclined.
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Prob best for both of us this conversation ends here? Lets just agree I'm right? Cool. nn
Woah, weird thread! 
<----- Was a weird thread.
Nice review Jimbo, not too bad a card.
I love my 9800Gx2. You can see why Nvidia wants it gone.. they were hopeing the GTX 280 would beat it. So really they shot themselves in the foot.
<----- Was a weird thread.Nice review Jimbo, not too bad a card.
I love my 9800Gx2. You can see why Nvidia wants it gone.. they were hopeing the GTX 280 would beat it. So really they shot themselves in the foot.
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Originally Posted by name='Toxcity'
Woah, weird thread!
<----- Was a weird thread.Nice review Jimbo, not too bad a card. |
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I love my 9800Gx2. You can see why Nvidia wants it gone.. they were hopeing the GTX 280 would beat it. So really they shot themselves in the foot. |
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Yeah...cleaning up Smithy's mess
Yeah deffo. |
Not keen on Nvidia this round really, the HD4850 is king of price performance but I want to see how the HD4870 does versus
I got a couple on the way next week (crosses fingers). Would still prefer to have the GX2's in Quad SLI - that setup just looked the dogs danglies tbh.
Gr8 review Jim as always.
. Would still prefer to have the GX2's in Quad SLI - that setup just looked the dogs danglies tbh.Gr8 review Jim as always.
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