Techpowerup First GTX 280 Review is gone

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My Take On W1zzard's Scores

W1zzard's benches can only be compared to his own previous reviews and to no other. That is the way his review philosophy is designed, and allows him to differentiate with other reviewers.

Let's take the 9800GTX Scores at 1600x1200 w/ 4xAA 16xAF:

Techpowerup, Crysis: 39.9 FPS
Xbit, Crysis: 23.9 FPS

Techpowerup, STALKER: 55.6 FPS
Xbit, STALKER: 48.1 FPS

Techpowerup, COD4: 58 FPS
Xbit, COD4: 48.4 FPS

Techpowerup, Quake Wars: 75.6 FPS
Xbit, Quake Wars: 58.5 FPS

Those are just some of the differences, and a lot of the increase seen in W1zzard's reviews come from the increase in CPU power, seeing as Xbit tests it's systems with a 3Ghz dual core and TechPowerUp does so with a 3.6Ghz dual core.

Traditionally, Xbit has had scores that are more inline with what other reviews have come up with while TechPowerUp's reviews are not meant for that at all, and are geared towards actual performance for overclockers.

EDIT: W1zzard you have a weird way of doing things, but we'll respect NDA (Should never have put it up in the first place)


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