BFG GeForce GTX 260 896MB Video Card Review

3DMark Vantage

3DMark Vantage is the follow-up to the highly successful 3DMark06. It uses exclusively DX10 so if you are running Windows XP, you can forget about running this benchmark. However, it presents us with a truly stressful test of any modern graphics card so we have decided to begin including it in our testing procedure.

Overall Score



GPU Score


For the time being, we have not included the CPU score since it is nearly identical from one card to the next in 3DMark Vantage. Here the GTX 260 scores higher than the HD4870 in every test but the Performance preset. It seems like the 260 is able to put its extra memory to good use.