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nVidia’s GTX 200 Series Graphics Card Benchmarks!

Most definitely, nVidia’s new line of graphics card can sum up the greatest graphics card ever to be made (yet).  nVidia always WOWs us and blows are minds away every time they introduce a new line of graphics cards.  In it’s history, the greatest performance increase from it’s family are (argubly) from 7 series –> 8 series.  This week, it can finally add another huge performance increase to it’s family.  From 9 series –> GTX 200 series.

The single GPU GTX 280 1GB Card ($649 online) can beat the GeForce 9800 GX2 GPUs (Dual GPU) in up to twice the performance as shown in testing and benchmarks.  On June 17th, nVidia revealed the GTX 200 series starting with the GTX 260 896MB ($400 online) and ending with the GTX 280.  The GTX 280 introduces nVidia’s new CUDA technology that takes the use of it’s GPU to process other things to offload the stress off of the CPU.

A plus with using the GTX 280 vs the 9800 GX2 is that the GTX 280 is only one GPU while the 9800 GX2 is dual GPU meaning it is more prone to crashes, scalability issues, performance issues on single GPU coded games, and more mess.

Although these first few benchmarks show rough GTX 280 scores, the drivers that nVidia released are immature and haven’t been developed.  We have been rest assured from nVidia that these new cards are to become as powerful as they can be when later driver versions come out fixing many bugs they have with the current one.  It’s overall raw processing power has evidently doubled from it’s previous generation.