The Zone

NVIDIA has made a bold statement about its new GTX 280 in that ýou'll only need one of these cards to run any game currently on the market at full settings. Although you can add on another 2 such cards for a 3-way SLI, this would just be for future use, according to NVIDIA. Thankfully, this is definitely true. As one of the heaviest single GPU cards we've seen to date, the GTX 280 packs enough punch to finally run Crysis on very high advanced settings all the way up to the highest anti aliasing settings of 16xQ with no lag. This is also an indication of how it runs normal games and apps as well as its packs enough GPU muscle to give the 9800 GTX and the 8800 Ultras a definite run for their money. Check out the more in-depth review in the July issue of HWM.