Palit GeForce GTX 280 1GB Review

“This card would have been a lot more difficult to conclude on a month ago when it was first released, but since the price has recently dropped, it's a lot easier to piece together. The fact of the matter is, right now, the GTX 280 is the fastest card out there, bar none. If you have the cash and the need for such a massive GPU, it's a good choice. It offers incredible performance from a single GPU, runs relatively quiet and should actually last a little while.

But outright recommending one to everyone is impossible. The GPU is still $500, and at that price point, you could SLI two 9800 GTX together and likely achieve similar performance in most tests... for $100 less overall. The key here is the 1GB onboard memory that the GTX 280 offers. That will come in handy at very high resolutions, and by very high, I mean only 2560x1600.”