XFX GeForce GTX 280 XXX 1GB video card review @ Elite Bastards

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Hi everyone,

 

I hope you all had a good weekend. After devoting plenty of coverage to AMD's latest graphics offerings in recent weeks, it's time at last to turn our attentions to NVIDIA's GT200 GPU, and in particular their flagship GeForce GTX 280 part. To make things even more interesting, the focus of our review today is the latest board in XFX's "XXX" line-up, the GeForce GTX 280 XXX. Boasting some decent clock speed increases over a reference board, it promises even further performance enhancements, so we put it through its paces to see if it's worth the not insubstantial outlay.

 

 

XFX GeForce GTX 280 XXX 1GB video card review

 

"XFX's XXX range of graphics boards always have plenty to offer performance-wise over a reference part, and things are no different on this occasion. Starting out with this board's core clock speed, we see a 68MHz increase to give us an overall speed of 670MHz, while the GT200's shader clocks on this part are bumped to 1458MHz, making for a 162MHz improvements over a reference solution. Finally, the 1GB of GDDR3 memory on the board is blessed with a clock speed of 1250MHz (2500MHz effective) on this XXX part, against 1107MHz on a standard GeForce GTX 280. Some good clock speeds increases to be found on this offering then, and we'll be seeing how that impacts real-world performance later on."

 

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