POV GEFORCE GTX 260 REVIEW
"Pov GeForce GTX 260 review also featuring the Gainward Radeon HD 4870. The Pov GeForce GTX 260 has a 25% lower clock speed than the Gainward Radeon HD 4870 and 45% lower memory speed. Software used for testing was Call of Duty 4, Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion and Quake Wars."
| SYSTEM INFORMATION | |
| VIDEO CARD | POV GEFORCE GTX 260 |
| GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 | |
| NVIDIA DRIVER | FORCEWARE v180.48 WHQL |
| ATI DRIVER | CATALYST v8.12 WHQL |
| PROCESSOR | AMD PHENOM II X4 920 |
| MOTHERBOARD | MSI K9A2 PLATINUM AMD 790 FX |
| MEMORY | CORSAIR 4GB DDR2 XMS2 DOMINATOR |
| OPERATING SYSTEM | WINDOWS VISTA |
CALL OF DUTY 4NORMAL QUALITY
HIGH QUALITY
EXTREME QUALITY
POV GEFORCE GTX 260 GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 |
COMMENT - "It is obvious that Call of Duty 4 doesn't favour the Pov GeForce GTX 260 which results in the Gainward Radeon HD 4870 outperforming the Pov GeForce GTX 260 by between 1% to 33%." |
ELDER SCROLLS IV - OBLIVIONNORMAL QUALITY
HIGH QUALITY
EXTREME QUALITY
POV GEFORCE GTX 260 GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 |
COMMENT - "The Gainward Radeon HD 4870 starts off strongly beating the Pov GeForce GTX 260 by between 2% to 7%. However when using Extreme Quality settings the advantage switches to the Pov GeForce GTX 260 when it beats the Gainward Radeon HD 4870 by 8%." |
ENEMY TERRITORY |
 | 101 |
 | 87 |
HIGH QUALITY
| 87 |
| 77 |
EXTREME QUALITY
| 76 |
| 67 |
POV GEFORCE GTX 260 GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870
COMMENT - "The Pov GeForce GTX 260 puts in a good solid performance beating the Gainward Radeon HD 4870 by 11% to 14%"
FINAL RESULTCOMMENT - "The Pov GeForce GTX 260 is a very fast card which uses the advanced GT200 GPU, the Pov GeForce GTX 260 is really just a GTX 280 which has a slower clock speeds, 2 Texture Processing Units disabled and 2 ROP blocks disabled. The Pov GeForce GTX 260 performed very well and was easily a match for the Gainward Radeon HD 4870. If it was just down to performance then there would be no winner because both the Pov GeForce GTX 260 and Gainward Radeon HD 4870 are excellent video cards. However there is one problem for the Pov GeForce GTX 260 and that is the price, even though the Pov GeForce GTX 260 offers roughly the same performance as the Gainward Radeon HD 4870 the Pov GeForce GTX 260 costs 15% more than the Gainward Radeon HD 4870. This is why I have only scored the Pov GeForce GTX 260 8/10 instead of the 9/10 it deserves because the Gainward Radeon HD 4870 is just a bit cheaper!" |
POV GEFORCE GTX 260 SCORES 8/10! |
POV GEFORCE GTX 260 REVIEW INDEX
| PAGE 1 - POV GEFORCE GTX 260 INTRODUCTION |
| PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2006, 3DMARK VANTAGE, BATTLEFIELD 2142 AND BIO-SHOCK |
| PAGE 3 - CALL OF DUTY 4, ELDER SCROLLS IV, QUAKE WARS AND FINAL RESULT |
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