Techpowerup First GTX 280 Review is gone

[T_M]

So, what happens to the guy who leaked it? :P

No worries btw Movieman, i just took issue to the way you worded it

[s1nykuL]

you should have seen the original thread that got deleted. new numbers wont include nvidia's future products of course

I did Perhaps I should have said this is not a matter of life or death to me, and those who may occasionally put others before themselves.

[pest]

99.9% sure

on my test-setup setting "r_Texture_Anisotropic_Level = 16"
and "r_TexMaxAnisotropy = 16" doesn't change the framerates.
Have to force it through the driver

Better leave it off at all, for the Benches

I was sure until now
if you use POM AF works but not everywhere.

[Warboy]

W1zzard, Could you possibly use the Sphere test demo for Crysis on DX10 Very High? Since I know there is a thread in Benchmark section of the forums where tons of users did that test and we have results to compare it to and such.

[villa1n]

GAH! monday it is then :P Now my curiosity is completely piqued.

[natty]

So, what happens to the guy who leaked it? :P

[Errik89]

lol!!

for the crysis benchmark at 1680x1050 we can wait the end of NDA of course!

thanks W1zzard!

[Kingcarcas]

^ LOL I understand, but i still kind of think they would want this to get out to create buzz about these cards no?.........

[msgclb]

Here are two facts about the internet. Don't let someone take a nude picture of you and don't let your preliminary review get leaked!

I've been doing my searching for GTX 280 facts and although I'm not looking for W1zzard's review, you can't miss it. Anyway, I'll wait for the final review and the price to drop a few dollars.

[natty]

Here are two facts about the internet. Don't let someone take a nude picture of you and don't let your preliminary review get leaked!

why not

[Luka_Aveiro]

why not

maybe he is ugly

j/k

[gojirasan]

Information wants to be free I guess. This is so frustrating. Any chance someone who saw the post before it was deleted can give me some kind of summary? A small hint? Some kind of reference to another web site that has the info? I have looked through the forums of some other web sites and haven't found anything on this leak.

[Boogerlad]

techpowerup review gtx280 chached link. It's probably gone by now.

[SocketMan]

Information wants to be free I guess. This is so frustrating. Any chance someone who saw the post before it was deleted can give me some kind of summary? A small hint? Some kind of reference to another web site that has the info? I have looked through the forums of some other web sites and haven't found anything on this leak.

To make a short story even shorter:
New NV > Old NV

And if you a crysis fan with a 60inch monitor

[W1zzard]

^ LOL I understand, but i still kind of think they would want this to get out to create buzz about these cards no?.........

ndas are in place for a reason. it gives everyboy a fair amount of time to work on their articles. also it is unfair to other publications if someone posts all their stuff early, takes all the traffic and on launch day other sites end up with less traffic. also without nda its impossible to have products in stores on launch day because there is no launch day. some fast shops would sell, slower ones not

[natty]

ndas are in place for a reason. it gives everyboy a fair amount of time to work on their articles. also it is unfair to other publications if someone posts all their stuff early, takes all the traffic and on launch day other sites end up with less traffic. also without nda its impossible to have products in stores on launch day because there is no launch day. some fast shops would sell, slower ones not

so what did you do with the guy that leaked your review?

is he still alive?

[SocketMan]

ndas are in place for a reason. it gives everyboy a fair amount of time to work on their articles. also it is unfair to other publications if someone posts all their stuff early, takes all the traffic and on launch day other sites end up with less traffic. also without nda its impossible to have products in stores on launch day because there is no launch day. some fast shops would sell, slower ones not

And to give people time to add support for GPU-z when the new
cards are out
BTW my 6800xt's pcb is reading 145C, while the core is 55c
with the new GPUz-0.2.3

[Tim]

ndas are in place for a reason. it gives everyboy a fair amount of time to work on their articles. also it is unfair to other publications if someone posts all their stuff early, takes all the traffic and on launch day other sites end up with less traffic. also without nda its impossible to have products in stores on launch day because there is no launch day. some fast shops would sell, slower ones not

Funny, because this happened at least once before, and once before that as well if I recall. Happened with the 8800GTX, and I think as well with the 1950XT.

Now, either you guys are really not smart by just putting up a review that everyone can access, which I highly doubt, or you just hit the nail on the head, and once again Techpowerup is number one in all forum threads, and gets all the traffic, because you planned it that way.

Well done, gotta give it to you guys.

But don't take people for fools seriously. Three times, you mysteriously post your review early, and then take it off-line again. Yea, maybe once it was a mistake, but twice? Or three times? C'mon.

[joshua7]

Why do you deal so much with Crysis scores? That game is a failure, its engine has been hardly licensed by anyone.

[Tim]

Why do you deal so much with Crysis scores? That game is a failure, its engine has been hardly licensed by anyone.

Yet it is the best looking engine by far, just because it's not licensed by as many people as let's say UE3, doesn't make the engine fail.

The engine does more then 90% of games will in the next year or two.

[Xel'Naga]

And to give people time to add support for GPU-z when the new
cards are out
BTW my 6800xt's pcb is reading 145C, while the core is 55c
with the new GPUz-0.2.3

It's not just you. I have a friend with an X1900 and his GPU is at 60-70 while the PCB is showing 165...

[bowman]

Why do you deal so much with Crysis scores? That game is a failure, its engine has been hardly licensed by anyone.

Probably because it's the only PC game in the world that actually needs a new GPU.

Anything else would just ruin Nvidia's marketing. 'Hey, look guys, now you can play your games at 180fps instead of measly 150fps!'

Damn console ports..

[Luka_Aveiro]

Probably because it's the only PC game in the world that actually needs a new GPU.

Anything else would just ruin Nvidia's marketing. 'Hey, look guys, now you can play your games at 180fps instead of measly 150fps!'

Damn console ports..

QFTFT

[perkam]

QFTFT

Actually, there are lots of examples of un-optimized games that kill your gpu. Pick up Lost Planet or DMC 4 for the PC.

Crysis laughs its ass off by screwing PC users by not optimizing their games for the mainstream, as so many of today's developers do to make sure their games are playable by a wide audience.

I know tons of friends impressed by the graphics in Crysis having bought the game for their Dell and HP PCs only to return it as they couldn't run it for squat. There will be future generations of cards that will play it at 60 fps at some of the resolutions that we are talking about today, but it will take time because of the developer's decision not to optimize for a broad range of hardware, especially at higher resolutions. It's the reason that they have less than 3 licenses sold for the game engine since the engine's inception, despite all the hype that people attribute to it.

It's the reason they don't want to release it for the PS3 and Xbox 360, even though they can. They'd have to go back and optimize it for those platforms and the game would look amazing at 30fps solid once its optimized which would negate the hardhips they've given PC users who have spent $1000s on hardware trying to run it when an X360 can run it

Perkam

[Luka_Aveiro]

Actually, there are lots of examples of un-optimized games that kill your gpu. Pick up Lost Planet or DMC 4 for the PC.

WTF? I ran DMC4 demo and ran demo benchmarks on my rig and always got FPS above 60, even with 8xAA, so I don't know what you'r talking about, DMC4 is a pretty port, but is a bit ugly (graphics wise)...

Crysis laughs its ass off by screwing PC users by not optimizing their games for the mainstream, as so many of today's developers do to make sure their games are playable by a wide audience.

That's false. You have medium/low settings to run with mainstream GCs.

I know tons of friends impressed by the graphics in Crysis having bought the game for their Dell and HP PCs only to return it as they couldn't run it for squat.

If they wanted to run it with such impressive graphics, it wouldn't be their HPs and Dells to provide hardware to do so... Temos pena...

There will be future generations of cards that will play it at 60 fps at some of the resolutions that we are talking about today, but it will take time because of the developer's decision not to optimize for a broad range of hardware, especially at higher resolutions. It's the reason that they have less than 3 licenses sold for the game engine since the engine's inception, despite all the hype that people attribute to it.

You wanted Crysis graphics to run maxed out on 8500GT? Crytek doesn't make miracles. You have low settings though, use them if your hardware sucks.

It's the reason they don't want to release it for the PS3 and Xbox 360, even though they can. They'd have to go back and optimize it for those platforms and the game would look amazing at 30fps solid once its optimized which would negate the hardhips they've given PC users who have spent $1000s on hardware trying to run it when all they would have needed was a console

Perkam

Even some console games have single digit framerates at times, and, personally, I couldn't care less about consoles anyway. Do you really think Crysis would run maxed out @ 720p very high on consoles, and that would piss off PC Gamers?

You are a believer man.