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As this gist of this review is of a video card I took the GeForce GTX 260 Black Edition card for a spin on our standard video card test platform for starters. The card did well, beating the ATI HD 4870 cards in a majority of the tests and coming in a close second when it did not in tests like Bioshock where the ATI cards traditionally dominate the NVIDIA cards. The XFX card in fact came close or beat the GeForce GTX 280 in several instances due to its extremely high clock speeds. This round though we take a closer look at how well the new NVIDIA cards play in the latest DX10 game titles.
Test System
- Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 CPU Running 3.2GHz
- 2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3-2000 memory running 1333MHz
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs running in RAID 0 Mode
- XFX GeForce GTX 260 216 Black Edition video card using 180.47 Big Bang II drivers
- Windows Vista 32-bit Business with SP1
Tests
DirectX 9.0
- COD4 Modern Warfare 1280X1024 4X AA 16X AF
- STALKER 1280X1024, 1920X1200, 4X AA 16X AF Custom FRAPS walkthrough of the beginning mission
- Enemy Territory Quake Wars: 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF, Custom FRAPS walkthrough of the beginning mission
- Unreal Tournament 3 1280x1024, 1920x1200, 4x AA 16x AF, Custom FRAPS Walkthrough Single Player mission Heat Wave Max settings 8 bots
- PCMark 05
- PCMark Vantage
- 3DMark05/06 1280x1024, 1920x1200
- SpecViewPerf 10
DirectX 10.0
- Crysis Patch 1.2.1 1280x1024, 1920x1200, 4X AA 16x AF, Max settings, Custom FRAPS walkthrough of first area of the game
- Lost Planet DX 10 1280x1024, 1920x1200, 4x AA 16x AF, Performance test
- Bioshock DX10 1280x1024, 1920x1200, 4x AA 16x AF, Custom walkthrough of beginning level
- 3DMark Vantage 1280x1024, 1920x1200 Performance runs
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