Computer Advances

Pictures have been released pf the GTX 280 being benchmarked with Crysis. I do not know if it is in DX9 or DX10, but the stats are this. The game is running at 1920X1200 at very high settings. If the benchmark is running in DX9 mode this is terrible performance and even if it was in DX10 it is still not that great. This just gives us one more reason to wait to see what ATI cards will do.

The GTX 280 system requirements have been released. They do not require a lot of power to run but still some good hardware.

The GTX 280 and the GTX 260 have been benchmarked against the 3870X2 and the Ultra. It seems like Nvidia has a ways to go to get their drivers better because that performance is not what I expected. All of the cards were used in the benchmark were using Vista SP1, 790I, and a QX9650@3.0ghz. Come on ATI blow the new GTX's out of the water :).

The new card from ATI, 4870X2, prototype is out and according to sources it is faster than the GTX 280 in 3DMark Vantage! The 4870X2 card is made up of two RV770 cores put on one card with 2X256 bit memory and wither GDDR3 or GDDR5 memory. Sources say that the 4870X2 is scoring X5500 while the GTX 280 is scoring X4800 in Vantage. This is exceptionally good performance for a prototype card and I can not wait to see ATI get back in the Graphics card business.

Today I found these pictures of the soon to be released RV770XT. This is the card that will be the first one to have GDDR5 bit memory along with a 512 mb of memory.