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nVidia GeForce GTX 260
| Author | Edward Chester |
| Published | 11th Jul 2008 |
| Manufacturer | Leadtek |
| Supplier | Overclockers.co.uk |
| Price | £174.99 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £205.61 (Inc VAT) |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersRace Driver: GRID is the newest game in our testing arsenal and it's currently one of our favourites too. Its combination of arcade style thrills and spills with a healthy dose of realism and extras like Flashback makes it a great pickup and go driving game. It's also visually stunning with beautifully rendered settings, interactive crowds, destructible environments, and stunning lighting. All that and it's not the most demanding game on hardware, either.
We test using the 32-bit version of the game, which is unpatched and running in DirectX10 mode. FRAPS is used to record frame rates while we manually complete one circuit of the Okutama Grand Circuit, in a Pro Tuned race on normal difficulty. We find a framerate of at least 40fps is required to play this game satisfactorily as significant stutters can ruin your timing and precision. We'd also consider 4xAA as a minimum as the track, barriers, and car bodies suffer considerably from aliasing and are a constant distraction.
All in-game settings are set to their maximum and we test with 0xAA, 4xAA, and 8xAA. 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.
Things take a rapid turn for the worse for nVidia's cards in this game. Neither the GTX 280 nor the GTX 260 fair well against the HD 4870. All three cards offer playable framerates but ATI's card will be able to provide that bit more headroom.
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ilovethemonkeyhead said on 11th July 2008
Loggitt said on 12th July 2008
Overall your review is well done. However, your review doesn't fully address the running temperatures of the cards reviewed with a graph. Other reviews I've read are sh... more
Ed said on 14th July 2008
Well, I was also concerned at the running temperatures of both ATI's cards but they seem perfectly stable. Also, if there was any real worry about the operating temperatures, ... more
NidStyles said on 12th November 2008
THe card's are designed to be able to handle the high temp's. Doesn't mean I want those high temp's in my case to begin with. I also don't like driver'... more
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i think the crossfire support thing might be the most defining feature in this battle. is there any information on how the GTX 260 performs overclocked against the HD 4870?