GeForce GTX 280 & GTX 260 Gaming Performance
CJ sent us a performance chart comparing Radeon HD 3870 X2 against the GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 on some of the games out there. Although, the benchmarks are done internally by Nvidia but it is probably conclusive to compare GTX 280 and GTX 260 here. The drivers for GeForce GTX 200 cards is the upcoming GeForce Release 177 while the drivers for 3870 X2 is a rather old Catalyst 8.3.
Comments (15)
Look at the y-axis. The whole y-axis is just at 2-units max. This means the performance difference between ATI, GTX260 n GTX280 card is no more than 1 times faster/slower.
The graph is constructed in such a way that it exaggerate how far better is a nvidia card compared to an ati card. Graphical effect u know. What you see is not what u get.
All ATI cards starts as 1x
This means it is running 1x performance.
GTX 280 runs a ex. 1.5x Means it runs 0.5(50%) faster than hd3870x2
ex. ati 1x=10 fps. gtx 280 runs 1.5=15fps
Thats why it dosen't start at zero.