It has been a while since we've had an NVIDIA card in-house for testing. Our last set of cards was a few generations back, with the GTX 275 and GTX 295 (a card I really liked). Since then we've made due with benchmarking and reviewing products solely from the AMD camp. While we've been glad to bring you the information we could, we were limited to just comparing cards within the current AMD product stack, or comparing comprable cards between generations.
Thanks to some contact made at the Rezzed Game Show in the UK, and some serious leg work by Delphium, we were able to get our hands on a current NVIDIA card - the GTX 670. I'm really glad to have an NVIDIA card back in-house, and I'm looking forward to doing a real comparison between the red and green camps.
The 600-series is really the perfect time to do an apples-to-apples (red apple vs. green apple, as it were) comparison between the two competitors. The NVIDIA 500-series brought multi-monitor gaming to NVIDIA hardware, but it required an SLI configuration. This was both problematic from a cost and implementation standpoint (some games just don't like a multi-GPU configuration).
While we could have done a solid set of single screen comparisons, there really just wasn't any way for us to do an effective multi-monitor analysis. The 600-series now gives us NVIDIA Surround on a single card, and opens things up for a proper WSGF shoot-out.
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