Crysis
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: nvidia, gtx, 280
Crysis
Crysis is still attracting a surprising and ongoing amount of attention, with the rumors around the end of the embargo period on the new Nvidia cards adding to its noted power-hungriness. Here’s what we found (note that we tested the game with a new scene that’s less power-intensive than the preceding one).
Due to the game’s power demands (we chose to test it at the same resolutions as the other cards this time), the hierarchy you see in the graphs reflects the results without filters, since they’re more pertinent. Is Crysis playable at 1920*1200 on the 280 GTX? Yes, but less playable than with the 9800 GX2 with our test scene! Only once antialiasing was enabled did the 280 hold its own, but the frame rate became a little too low to play in Very High detail mode. So the only problem is that while in three of the four resolutions the 280 GTX was clearly ahead of the 9800 GX2 with Crysis, they happen to be the resolutions where the game is unfortunately not always playable. And that’s despite the more-than-doubled performance at 2560*1600 and the fact that the new cards are the only ones – except for the 8800 Ultra – that can really render the game with antialiasing added. So that was a bit of a disappointment.
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hmm not as big an improvement as i thought. will have to wait and see on the drivers improving the cards , but the 260 gtx seems to be the much better option given the price. still , will have to see what ati bring to the fray first. patience will be reflected in price i have no doubt.
frankly depressing, Me WANTS MRAW POWER!!!!
I am so disappointed. Now if AMD delivers on the dual GPU single memory rumour (2 GPUs on a single card but without the Crossfire problems) NVidia could have a serious problem.
Why have they tested this system with only 2Gb of RAM? If you're testing a GPU with 1Gb of VRAM, surely you'd have more installed?
They also have 2 conflicting prices on page 28.
For the 280GTX- $846 and $650;
For the 260GTX- $450 and $400
Wouldn't it have been more prudent to test against a 8800gtx ultra as this is still the single most powerfull card.
It might just be me but 66.5dBa is unbearable unless you have your PC locked away in a cupboard somewhere. This business of supplying substandard fans on very expensive cards is intolerable. Why don't they strike a deal with Zalman / Thermalright for example, and ship cards that are quiet / silent? I'm sure that people who have the money to buy a £500 GPU could afford £10 more for a better cooling solution that's included.
where is that 20W to 30W idle you are talking about? The least in the graph is 199W!
mi1ez: Probably the reason for just 2GB RAM was that it allowed Tom's to stick with 32-bit OS architecture. If they tried using more RAM they'd be stuck with 64-bit Bindows which would not be pretty - aside from really needing 8GB to give a big difference over 2GB in 32bit Vista, there's the slight issue of stable signed drivers, which these cards probably won't have for a while. Good luck trying to get Vista 64 to even "see" the cards! XD
jhoravi: that idle power would only come up on newer nVidia mobos as the card would be shut down entirely when idle and hand over to the integrated chip.
And was it me or was the Noise text copypasted over the Temperature text on the next page? Oops.
Lets try again Mr THG (uhhhm try getting your fraking website working plz)...
Now lets see this puppy in action:
http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/01G-P3-1289-AR.pdf
!!
Bob