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GeForce GTX 280 Video Card Review

Our review of the newest high-end video card from NVIDIA, GeForce GTX 280, which is being released today.

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Quake 4

Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Introduction (Cont’d)
  • 3. More Details
  • 4. How We Tested
  • 5. 3DMark06 Professional
  • 6. 3DMark Vantage Professional
  • 7. Call of Duty 4
  • 8. Crysis
  • 9. Half-Life 2: Episode Two
  • 10. Quake 4
  • 11. Conclusions

We upgraded Quake 4 to version 1.4.2 and ran its multiplayer demo id_perftest with SMP option enabled (which allows Quake 4 to recognize and use more than one CPU), under the same three 16:10 widescreen resolutions, 1680×1050, 1920×1200, and 2560×1600, first with image quality settings configured at “low” and then with image quality settings configured at “ultra.” You can check the results below, given in frames per second.

GeForce GTX 280

Quake 4 – 1680×1050 – Low Score Difference
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 285.30 6.14%
GeForce GTX 280 268.80  
Radeon HD 3870 227.75 18.02%
GeForce 9800 GTX 225.52 19.19%
GeForce 9800 GX2 220.48 21.92%

GeForce GTX 280

Quake 4 – 1920×1200 – Low Score Difference
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 266.23 12.85%
GeForce GTX 280 235.92  
Radeon HD 3870 188.40 25.22%
GeForce 9800 GX2 174.06 35.54%
GeForce 9800 GTX 158.87 48.50%

GeForce GTX 280

Quake 4 – 2560×1600 – Low Score Difference
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 197.82 17.18%
GeForce GTX 280 168.81  
Radeon HD 3870 116.01 45.51%
GeForce 9800 GTX 114.34 47.64%
GeForce 9800 GX2 100.07 68.69%

GeForce GTX 280

Quake 4 – 1680×1050 – Ultra Score Difference
GeForce GTX 280 246.39  
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 237.98 3.53%
GeForce 9800 GX2 218.80 12.61%
GeForce 9800 GTX 194.65 26.58%
Radeon HD 3870 167.26 47.31%

GeForce GTX 280

Quake 4 – 1920×1200 – Ultra Score Difference
GeForce GTX 280 224.44  
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 218.62 2.66%
GeForce 9800 GX2 158.35 41.74%
GeForce 9800 GTX 158.18 41.89%
Radeon HD 3870 144.80 55.00%

GeForce GTX 280

Quake 4 – 2560×1600 – Ultra Score Difference
Sapphire Atomic Radeon HD 3870 X2 177.36 5.30%
GeForce GTX 280 168.43  
GeForce 9800 GTX 102.04 65.06%
GeForce 9800 GX2 94.68 77.89%
Radeon HD 3870 94.40 78.42%
Continue: Conclusions

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