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nVidia GeForce GTX 280 Review
| Author | Edward Chester |
| Published | 25th Jun 2008 |
| Manufacturer | nVidia |
| Supplier | ebuyer.com |
| Price | £369.57 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £425.00 (Inc VAT) |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersCall of Duty 4 has to be one of our favourite games of last year. It brought the Call of Duty brand bang up to date and proved that first person shooters didn't need to have the best graphics, or the longest game time. It was just eight hours of pure adrenaline rush that constantly kept you on edge.
We test using the 32-bit version of the game patched to version 1.4 FRAPS is used to record framerates while we manually walk through a short section of the second level of the game. We find a framerate of 30fps is quite sufficient because, although the atmosphere is intense, the gameplay is less so - it doesn't hang on quick reactions and high-speed movement.
All in-game settings are set to their maximum and we test with 0xAA and 4xAF. Transparency anti-aliasing is also manually turned on through the driver, though this is obviously only enabled when normal AA is being used in-game.
For some reason this game simply didn't benefit that much from the various improvements made to GT200 and it is simply trounced by the 9800 GX2. We suspect this is largely due to Call of Duty 4 being a DirectX 9 based game so it is benefiting little from the more DirectX 10 orientated tweaks applied to GT200. It still runs absolutely fine though.
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life said on 27th June 2008
Varis Vitols said on 3rd July 2008
life said on 27th June 2008
In that case, why don't You have a look at Radeon HD 4870? It outperforms GTX 260 in almost every case, particularly with AA enabled... more
Roman said on 3rd July 2008
What are your comments on the explosive heat and noise that the GTX 280 generates?
Flight Instructor said on 27th March 2009
I like your reviews, in particular when they refer to games hardware, but I only use flight simulator, is it possible to include this type of game when reviewing hardware.
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I thought this was a fantastic review Ed, very in-depth and informative. Looking forward to a GTX260 review, as there is no way I'm shelling out 400 quid on a graphics card! T... more