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XFX GTX280 XXX: Fast & Furious
Date: 2008-08-22 | Author: Miles Cheatham
Company: XFX
| Supplied by: XFX
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INTRODUCTION
Well the smoke has settled, the dust cleared and most of the rumors put to rest on the first phase of NVIDIA's launch of the their GTX 200 series of graphics solutions. Many of you may have read our initial article entitled: XFX GTX280: A Preview of What's to Come back in early June, 2008. In that article we not only presented an initial product review of the XFX GTX280. We also delivered an in depth overview of all the new features cards based reference version of the NVIDIA GTX280 & GTX260 would bring to the table. We went on to say that the test sample we received had some issues with a discernible electronic component hum and immature product drivers and we would refrain from scoring it at that time to be both fair to NVIDIA and XFX.
Just over two months have passed since the release of our initial article. XFX has sent us a replacement sample for the GTX280 which is completely free of from the electronic component hum we initially experienced. In addition to the GTX280, XFX also sent us their latest and greatest XXX version of the card for review. We decided to embrace this as an opportunity to compare the two cards in a head to head along with a number of other popular graphics solutions. Our intent is not to rehash the plethora of features already covered in great detail in the aforementioned article, but more to concentrate on serious testing and expound on those features that prove noteworthy with the more mature drivers we will be using.
SPECIFICATIONS
| XFX GTX280 XXX & GTX 280 GPU Detailed Specifications |
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| GTX280 XXX | GTX280 | ||
| Fabrication Process | 65nm | 65nm | |
| Transistor Count | 1.4 Billion | 1.4 Billion | |
| Core Clock Rate | 670 MHz | 602 MHz | |
| SP Clock Rate | 1,458 MHz | 1,296 MHz | |
| Streaming Processors | 240 | 240 | |
| Memory Clock | 1,250 MHz (2,500 MHz) | 1,105 MHz (2,210 MHz) | |
| Memory Interface | 512-bit | 512-bit | |
| Texture Fill Rate (Billion/Sec) |
80.4 | 80.4 | |
| Memory Size | 1024 MB | 1024 MB | |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 | |
| Texture Filtering Units | 80 | 80 | |
| Texture Filtering Rate | 48.2 GigaTexels/sec | 48.2GigaTexels/sec | |
| RAMDACs | 400 MHz | 400 MHz | |
| Bus Type | PCI-E 2.0 | PCI-E 2.0 | |
| HDCP Outputs | 1 | 1 | |
| Power Connectors | 1 x 8-pin & 1 x 6-pin | 1 x 8-pin & 1 x 6-pin | |
| GPU Thermal Threshold | 105º C | 105º C | |
| Dimensions | 10.5" x 4.378" x 1.5" (LxWxH) | 10.5" x 4.378" x 1.5" (LxWxH) | |
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