|
MSI N280GTX SUPER OC review |
|
|
|
Written by Dimitar Dinchev a.k.a. Veseliq
|
|
Monday, 10 November 2008 |
Page 13 of 15
Page 13 - Performance: 3DMark Vantage
3DMark has established itself as "benchmark number one" for determining the gaming performance of any given computer. This in great extent is very wrong, because due to its popularity, AMD and NVIDIA optimize the drivers of their videocards way too much in favour of 3DMark, making it inadequate for any relevant determination of of the ingame performance of the card, where it is not that well optimized. A good example for this is the fact that the gaming solutions of both NVIDIA and AMD including two graphical cores (SLI/Crossfire) for example can get increase of around 60-70% in 3DMark, while in most games at times they couldn't get even 20% increase.
3DMark Vantage on the other hand is the last from the series and unlike any other game or benchmark is written exclusively for DirectX 10. For the time being in order to preserve compatibility with older computers, all the games actually use the DirectX 9 framework and have additional layer of DirectX 10 effects. For Vantage you need Windows Vistа (with SP1, adding DirectX 10.1 support and ShaderModel 4.1), but the test is one of the most interesting ones, if not for the fact that it tests the capabilities of newest video chips, then because Futuremark (the company that created it) is soon to release the first game based on the 3DMark Vantage core.
So here are the results:
you need to upgrade your flash player
It's impossible not the notice the huge results of both 280GTX cards. That is due to the "NVIDIA PhysX" interference on driver level, still the most interestin thing is that 260GTX tested with the exact same drivers produces quite different results. He hope to be able to re-review MSI N280GTX Super OC within few days in order to obtain results with "Physics" manually turned off.
|
