Thursday, June 12th 2008
3-way SLI Action with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and 3DMark Vantage
A little joy for today, one week before the official announcement of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 cards. Here's a little sneak peak on what to expect from three NVIDIA GeForce GTX280 cards in tri-SLI configuration, an overclocked Intel QX9650 processor to 4GHz and the 3DMark Vantage Vista DX10 benchmark. Clock speeds of all three cards can be seen in the photo. The end result is 21350 marks.
Source:
VR-Zone
37 Comments on 3-way SLI Action with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and 3DMark Vantage
(thanks again malware for all the good posts)
But I would like to see it tested with a AMD Proc.
this supposed gtx 280 benchmark is twice as good as the supposed 4850 CF benchmark
And I would also see how much of a difference it would be if you used a AMD chip.
1. Overclocking the Shader Core as far as it will go.
2. Playing Crysis - the only game I can't max out.
In honesty, these cards are worthless for today's games, because I doubt that any game in the next year will be as difficult to run as Crysis and so that is the only reason to buy them. My system can run any other game maxed out. And since I've already played Crysis.. twice, these cards are of no value to me for a long time. I'll be getting the ones that come after them.. that is if we are still able to discern which ones those will be, as nVidia keeps altering the names ridiculously.
Little overkill though, as most games can't use their full potential, unless you are using them at a ridiculous res. :laugh:
Another Point Id rather be playing FPS at 60 on 1280x1024 than 30 FPS on 2***x16** 30 FPS is barely Playable, because you gotta account for dips in performance every so often.
oced tri sli 8800gtx for reference
service.futuremark.com/resultComparison.action?compareResultId=135662&compareResultType=19
oced tril sli 9800gtx
service.futuremark.com/resultComparison.action?compareResultId=109248&compareResultType=19
oced quad sli (dual 9800gx2)
service.futuremark.com/resultComparison.action?compareResultId=162493&compareResultType=19
most impressive!
Look in this thread and notice the BIG jump when the 2nd GPU was enabled.
If this card (not SLIed) doesn't score @ least 10K in Vantage, it will be a disappointment and 3 of these ought to scale terribly well in Vantage, unlike 3D06, so i would expect it to score on the 23K-24K neighborhood, @ least.
and its not just me check this site
forums.pureoverclock.com/showthread.php?p=14934#post14934
QX9650 OCed to 4GHz, DDR3 OCed at 1GHz . . .
EDIT: That system is suposedly smart enough to change physics and AI "resolution" or "framerate" on the fly if it sees too many workload on the CPU and thinks it's not going to be able to handle it. What I mean with framerate and resolution there there is that, instead of calculating physics and AI for every frame it will do it at a lower speed than the renderer (framerate). Or it can calulate less interactions per frame (resolution). Anything to find the balance it needs.