Dual GeForce GTX 280M GPUs in SLI = which desktop GPU?

Which desktop graphics card does the performance of dual GeForce GTX 280M GPUs in SLI equal to?

 

Dual 9800 GTX's.

 

Notebook forum, bro : D

 

Probably close to a single GTX280 overclocked and SLI of course is not a sure bet, some games it wont work at all others it wont work so well. Though in most cases it works pretty well.

 

That, as the 280M is more or less a 9800 GTX

 

No kidding? Dual 280M's get around 15k points in 3DMark06, and that is just about the same as single desktop GTX 260 (or HD 4870). And mind you that SLI doesn't work very well in every game.

 

Considering they are underclocked 9800 gtx wouldn't that make them pretty much equal to 9800 gt's? So it would be like a 9800gx2?

 

on par with a 260 216...
stocked. Not sure about overclocked. But that is with vantage gpu score.

 

It does not make sense to compare two gpu's to a GTX260+ 216SP.

GTX 280M SLI = underclocked 9800 GTX+ SLI

that doesn't tell you much.

It make more sense to compare ingame benchmarks @ 1920*1080 or higher with and without AA in various engines.

 

Well, then my experience must be extraordinary. For now, I will say that it works fine.

280m in terms of shaders and memory layout, is basically an underclocked desktop 9800 GTX. So perhaps a 9800 GTX SLi?

Taking SLi into consideration, it should get around the same performance as a desktop 280. But I wouldn't always compare it to the single 260 or 280 cards for more technical reasons as those are 448 and 512 bit, respecitvely, despite there being SLi. Also, 3dMark scores which say very little about the real facts on the table, should not be used to determine the potential and fortitute of a card.

 

ok. How would you like me to explain it. The question was which gpu was it comparable to. So I said in my eyes, it would be a 260 216 from nvidia. The reason why I choose this was because me frined has a desktop with the 260 216 in it with a i7 but he isn't a benchmarker like me. He got a free vantage key and ran it stock with a old driver and got 9909 on the gpu.

in my sig, you see that I have the 280m gtx sli which is what the op is referring to. With a basic user the 280m gtx sli stocked everything and old drivers I net the same. 9800-10,000. The same as the 260 216.

now stocked gpu and overclocked cpu on my unit with the lastest drivers and tweaks, I got 10_550 on the gpu score.

now there are alot of varibles to consider. Him running a [email protected] and me running a [email protected] is a big difference.

vantage p-run is also done at 1280*1024 which would mean it isnlt fully depandant on the gpu it self and it relies on the cpu to do VERY little work. Where as 1920*1200 with out as doesn't use much of the cpu.
but with vantage it's a nvidia benchmark so when I did run vantage the sli incidentor was full. This meant sli was fully being used to it's best ablilty.

another varible is the fact that he ran it just because he saw that he got it for free with buying it with his cards so there for it was just kicks and giggles where as I was putting everything I could to get one more point.

I also noted at the bottom that that was vantage because that was the only benchmark I did between desktop/laptop and found it was around the same.

now you are right that sli doesn't always work and there are alot of factors that I posted up thatt could make either be better(in which case the 260 216 is because of everything I posted up above.) but I feel that this is the closed as the 280m gtx sli will come to if
the gpu is being fully stressed
sli is running at 100 percent
drivers are close and/or up to date.
and if the right people use it.
and many more. I was just driving home and saw this thread and posted my quick thoughts about it. Not knowing that I was going to be called out at every word I said.