Legit Video Card Reviews

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 Graphics Cards by EVGA and PNY

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Product: GeForce GTX 280 Series Graphics Cards
Date: Mon, Jun 16, 2008 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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BioShock

BIOSHOCK on NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

BioShock is a game published by 2K Boston/2K Australia, and designed by Ken Levine. The game is a PC and Xbox 360 title released on August 21, 2007 in North America. BioShock is a first-person shooter with role-playing game customization elements that was developed using the Unreal Engine 3.0 and is a DirectX 10 game title that is multithreaded.

BioShock Benchmark Settings

Since 2K didn't include a benchmark script or utility in BIOSHOCK, I used FRAPS version 2.9.2 to capture the frame rates for 240 seconds at scenes that I personally selected from the game. If you don't know anything about Bioshock, let me set the scene for you: After your plane crashes into icy uncharted waters, you discover a rusted bathysphere and descend into Rapture, a city hidden beneath the sea. Constructed as an idealistic society for a hand picked group of scientists, artists and industrialists, the idealism is no more. Now the city is littered with corpses, wildly powerful guardians roam the corridors as little girls loot the dead, and genetically mutated citizens ambush you at every turn and you get to kill them. Let's look at the benchmark results!

BioShock Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: In BioShock, the GeForce 9800 GX2 outperformed the EVGA GeForce GTX 280 by 7%.

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Review Index
Page 1 - NVIDIA Brings The Muscle - GeForce GTX 280
Page 2 - The GeForce GTX 200 Core
Page 3 - EVGA GTX 280 Hydro Copper 16
Page 4 - EVGA GeForce GTX 280 - Detailed
Page 5 - PNY GeForce GTX 280
Page 6 - The Test System
Page 7 - Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Page 8 - Company of Heroes
Page 9 - World in Conflict
Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Page 11 - BioShock
Page 12 - Crysis
Page 13 - Call of Duty 4
Page 14 - 3DMark 2006
Page 15 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 16 - Lightsmark 2007
Page 17 - Age of Conan
Page 18 - Folding on NVIDIA Graphics Cards
Page 19 - Temperatures
Page 20 - Power Consumption and Final Thoughts