MSI N280GTX OC HydroGen

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.

 


 

Results Analysis

3DMark usually gives a good indication of how the remainder of the benchmarks will pan out so on first impressions it appears that, expectedly, the overclocked GTX280 is a better performer than its stock clocked brethren but it is also slightly behind the newer GTX285.

Let’s see if this transfers over to our real world gaming benchmarks.