Bjorn3D, OCC, Driver Heaven, HotHardware, The Tech Report, Neoseeker, Benchmark Reviews, TweakTown, NVNews, HEXUS, Legit Reviews, HardOCP, Hardware Secrets, and Elite Bastards posted their reviews on the latest NVIDIA Geforce GPUs



Bjorn3D look at the XFX GTX 280

Bjorn3D will kick off our on-going coverage of this gala event with a detailed preview of the flagship of the line, the GeForce GTX 280 provided to us by XFX. For clarity's sake notice we said 'on-going' and 'preview'. As with the debut of any new generation of graphical product there is almost always a portion of the manufacturer's final vision of that device that is either immature or incomplete, and the GTX 280 is certainly no exception to that premise. We fully intend to go into great detail in this preview about what's currently available and what you can expect in the future from the NVIDIA 200 series of graphical products. For sake of this introduction, suffice it to say the features available for today's product preview are a splash in the pan compared to what will be available shortly after this launch day. Thankfully all these missing features are software controlled and the final products are nearing release.

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OCC has published a new review on the XFX GTX 280

I was curious to see just how far the latest and greatest from Nvidia could be pushed, and I was able to gain 112 MHz on the GPU core, 147MHz on the memory and 237MHz on the Shader clock speeds. These represent increases of 16% on the GPU, 12% on the memory and 15% on the Shader clocks. 100+ MHz on all three seems like a lot, but the GTX 280 does not have the overclocking headroom that the 9-series GPUs have. Everyone's mileage may vary when it comes to overclocking, as you well know. In today's performance hungry world, the video card manufacturers have given us a little bit for free, so to speak, and these increased clock speeds did improve performance across the board during the testing phase of this review. With expectations of increased performance bouncing
around the inside of my skull, let's see just how well the GTX 280 performs.

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Driver Heaven posted a review on the NVIDIA GTX 260 & Zotac GTX 280 AMP!

Currently the fastest performing dual GPU product is the 9800 GX2 and in the single GPU arena the 8800 Ultra still leads the way, even if availability is very limited. Despite having the fastest cards available Nvidia are not content to wait on the competition catching them and today we have the release of new high end and mainstream products, the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280.

We have two of these new products in our test labs today. The first is Zotacs GTX 280 AMP! Edition, a factory overclocked sample of the high end model and the other is a reference design GTX 260. We will be testing with a selection of the latest games at resolutions up to 2560x1600 as well as delving into some Blu-Ray playback and card overclocking in order to establish how much of an improvement they are, if any, over the last generation of Nvidia hardware.

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HotHardware posted a review on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260

NVIDIA has officially take the wraps of their latest flagship core GPU architecture and the GeForce GTX 280 / 260 series of graphics cards. We've got full coverage for you here, with gaming and GPU benchmarks, power numbers, the works.

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The Tech Report takes a look at Nvidia's GeForce GTX 280 graphics processor

If the GPU world were a wildlife special on the National Geographic channel, the G80 processor that powers GeForce 8800 GTX graphics cards would be a stunningly successful apex predator. In the nearly two years that have passed since its introduction, no other single-chip graphics solution has surpassed it. Newer GPUs have come close, shrinking similar capabilities into smaller, cooler chips, but that's about it. The G80 is still the biggest, baddest beast of its kind—a chip, as we said at the time, with "the approximate surface area of Rosie O'Donnell." After it dispatched its would-be rival, the Radeon HD 2900 XT, in an epic mismatch, AMD gave up on building high-end GPUs altogether, preferring instead to go the multi-GPU route. Meanwhile, the G80 has sired a whole range of successful offspring, from teeny little mobile chips to dual-chip monstrosities like the GeForce 9800 GX2.

Of course, even the strongest predator has a limited time as king of the pride, and the G80's reign is coming to a close. Today, its true heir arrives on the scene in the form of the GT200 graphics processor powering the GeForce GTX 200-series graphics cards. Despite being built on a smaller chip fabrication process, the GT200 is even larger than the G80, and it packs nearly twice the processing power of its progenitor.

This new contender isn't content with just ruling the same territory, either. Nvidia has ambitious plans to expand the GPU's processing domain beyond real-time graphics and gaming, and as the GPU computing picture becomes clearer, those plans seem increasingly viable. Join us as we dive in for a look at this formidable new processor.

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Today Neoseeker takes a first, initial fact-finding retro-speculative gander at the GTX 280, the latest omega card from NVIDIA.

It seems like we were just getting used to NVIDIA's ninth generation of GeForce, and now, lo and behold, another generation has arrived. This new breed brings a few new changes, and one of these changes is in nomenclature: NVIDIA's suffixes have now become prefixes, and a zero has been dropped. The *GTX 280* is the name of the new flagship video card offered by NVIDIA, and today, we'll put it through its paces and see how it compares to nine other video cards, including the now dethroned 9800 GTX.

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Benchmark Reviews has released a new article on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 Compute Video Card

Hot on the heels of a rapid-succession GeForce 9800 GX2 and GeForce 9800 GTX launch only two short months ago, NVIDIA now officially unveils the GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 video cards. Using the fastest and most-powerful graphics processor NVIDIA has ever developed, both new GeForce products are constructed from a freshly-minted GT200 graphics processor. Both the GTX 280 and GTX 260 products position themselves at the very highest segment of the GeForce product line. NVIDIA Estimates that the GeForce GTX 280 will be introduced at $649, while the similarly powerful GeForce GTX 260 will enter the $399 price point. If the competition ever had a very good reason to be concerned with their future, it would be right now.

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TweakTown posted a review on the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 280 AMP! Edition

Word on the GT200 has been floating around for a while now, and we’ve seen a number of leaked benchmarks all over the world wide interweb. With the NDA being lifted, it’s time to check out what exactly is going on with the new card.

What we will be doing today is checking out exactly how much faster the new GTX 280 is when compared to the 9800 GX2, along with seeing how it compares against the top of the range AMD offering; the HD 3870 X2. For further good measure, we’ll also try it against one of the better valued for money NVIDIA cards at the moment; the 9800 GTX.

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GeForce GTX 280 Review at NVNews

Today NVIDIA is introducing two new Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) based on their GeForce GTX 200 Series - the long-awaited GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260. Both GPUs are high-end products targeted at gaming enthusiasts and will be featured on graphics cards retailing for $649 and $399 respectively.

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HEXUS posted a review on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

nVIDIA unleashes GeForce GTX 280 hell. A beast from the Underworld or a mere shadow of G80? We tell you.

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Legit Reviews takes a look at NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 Graphics Cards by EVGA and PNY

Overall the GeForce GTX 280 graphics card was a winner in our books and it made a difference while gaming, which is the most important thing. The game we noticed the performance gains the most was actually Age of Conan when we cranked up the image quality at a resolution of 1920x1200 . Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures passed the astounding 'One Million Copies Shipped' milestone in less than three weeks after the game's launch, so that is a huge potential market in the months to come...

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HardOCP posted a review on the BFG Tech GeForce GTX 280 OC & GTX 260 video cards

NVIDIA’s next-gen GPU has arrived. We game with BFG Tech’s new GeForce GTX 280 OC in Crysis, Age of Conan, COD 4, and Assassin’s Creed. We’ve included the GeForce GTX 260 as well. Real gameplay advantages are to be had, especially in the brand new Age of Conan.

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Hardware Secrets posted a review on the GeForce GTX 280 Video Card

GeForce GTX 280, which is being released today, is the new high-end graphics processing unit from nVidia. In this review we are going to compare its performance with other high-end video cards we had available, namely the GeForce 9800 GX2, the GeForce 9800 GTX, the Radeon HD 3870 X2 and the Radeon HD 3870. Is this new video card really the fastest in the market today? Check it out.

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Elite Bastards posted NVIDIA GeForce GTX 200 series technology preview

Starting out with the basics, the GT200 core is manufactured using the tried and trusted 65 nanometre process, the same as that used for G92. This does, however, make it ripe for a 55 nanometre die shrink at some unspecified point in the future, just as the 90 nanometre G80 was shrunk into what became the 65 nanometre G92. The GT200 chip makes use of a massive 1.4 billion transistors, eclipsing the 681 million transistors used by G80, and leaving us with a whopping huge GPU die of around 576mm2. As per G80, the size of the GPU itself means that all I/O logic has been moved to a separate chip, meaning that the NVIO chip makes its return with GT200 to handle inter-GPU communication for SLI as well as handling any and all display outputs on the graphics board.

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