Palit GTX 260 Sonic Review

Testing:

3DMark06 is one of the benchmarks that always comes up when a bragging contest is begun. 3DMark06 presents a severe test for many of today's hardware components. Let's see how this setup fares. The settings we will use are listed below.

Settings:

• SM2.0 Graphics Tests: GT1- Return to Proxycon, GT2- Firefly Forest
• CPU Tests: Cpu1- Red Valley, CPU2- Red Valley
• HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests: HDR1- Canyon Flight, HDR2- Deep Freeze

The Sonic GTX 260 is ahead of the HD 4870 Toxic at 1280x1024 and pulls ahead of the ATI card by larger margins as the resolution increases. At 2560x1600 the Palit lags only behind the dual GPU cards and the GTX 280.