ASUS ENGTX260 TOP 896MB (NVIDIA GTX260)
Call of Duty 4 & BIOSHOCK
Published: 8th July 2008 | Source: Asus | Price: £220.00 |
Call of Duty 4 is a stunning DirectX 9.0c based game that really looks awesome and has a very full feature set. With lots of advanced lighting, smoke and water effects, the game has excellent explosions along with fast gameplay. Using the in-built Call Of Duty features, a 10-minute long gameplay demo was recorded and replayed on each of the GPU's using the /timedemo command a total of 5 times. The highest and lowest FPS results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.
Sitting just 6-7FPS behind the GTX280 at both 1280x1024 and 1900x1200 resolutions, the factory overclocked ASUS ENGTX260 certainly puts out some decent numbers. This also converts well to the CPF scale, with the ENGTX260 being over £2.00 cheaper than the GTX280 at 1900x1200 and £1.69 cheaper at 1280x1024.
Over on the red team, ATI's mid-range HD4850 may not be able to compete in the performance stakes, falling roughly 30FPS behind at both resolutions, but it certainly gives the best value out of all the cards on test, including the dual-GPU versions of its predecessors.
BioShock is a recent FPS shooter by 2K games. Based on the UT3 engine, it has a large amount of advanced DirectX techniques including excellent water rendering and superb lighting and smoke techniques. All results were recorded using F.R.A.P.S with a total of 5 identical runs through the same area of the game. The highest and lowest results were then removed, with an average being calculated from the remaining 3 results.
BIOSHOCK mixes things up a bit, with only a few FPS between the HD4850 and the GTX260 at 1900x1200. The GTX280 and 9800GX2 take the top two performance spots here, but their high prices don't bode very well on the CPF scale. Once again, the GTX260 offers much better value than the GTX280, costing almost £2.00 less per frame at 1900x1200, but the HD4850 represents the best value, costing just £1.03 per frame at 1280x1024.
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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