Where to buy your GeForce GTX 280

Posted at: 5:00pm 16th June 2008 by Ben Hardwidge

We shop around the UK's retailers to find you the best deal on a GeForce GTX 280 card

By now, you should have spotted that Nvidia has released a new GPU called the GeForce GTX 280 GTX. However, in case you haven’t, you can read our full review of BFG and MSI's GeForce GTX 280 cards here, and you can also check out our video of us taking one apart here.

Of course, we know that prices can vary massively between different retailers, which is why we’ve had a good look through various retailers’ sites to see how their prices compare on various cards. Along with the MSI and BFG cards that we tested, we also looked for prices of some other models, just to give a fair snapshot of the market. The models we've researched have the following specs:

• Asus - 602MHz core, 1,296MHz shaders and 1,107MHz (2,214MHz effective) GDDR3 RAM
  
• BFG - 615MHz core, 1,350MHz shaders and 1,107MHz (2,214MHz effective) GDDR3 RAM
• EVGA - Superclocked Edition - 621MHz core, 1,350MHz shaders and 1,143MHz (2,286MHz effective) GDDR3 RAM
• MSI - 650MHz core, 1,300MHz shaders and 1,150MHz (1,300MHz effective) GDDR3 RAM
  
• Zotac - 602MHz core, 1,296MHz shaders and 1,107MHz (2,214MHz effective) GDDR3 RAM
  

You can see our findings in the table below, with eBuyer currently offering the best deal on a stock-speed Zotac card for just £400 inc VAT. There's surprisingly quite a wide range of prices for the same cards between retailers, although not many of the cards are in stock at the moment, However, Scan claims that it currently has stock of the BFG card.