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Ah, I love benchmarks. You can argue about memory bandwidth or cache 
sizes or price points all day, but a benchmark shows you what's 
happening in the real world.

Right, so let's look at this benchmark. The GeForce 7900 GT is *clearly* 
the loser. It has been thoroughly PWN3D in every single test. Some show 
the other cards as up to 8x faster.

Now, the GeForce 280 is roughly 5x the price of the GeForce 260. And 
thus you would expect a corresponding difference in performance. I don't 
see one. Actually, in almost all cases, the two cards look remarkably 
similar in performance. The 280 is maybe 3% or even as much as 10% 
faster. Big deal. For 5x the price? I don't think I'll bother.

See, that's why I love benchmarks! :-D

Also... I'm loving the way even the big meat just can't handle Crysis. 
That game came out, what, 7 years ago? And *still* today no graphics 
card can run it properly. WTF? It's like the Vista of the gaming world...

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