The Futuremark 3DMark06 benchmark was released many moons ago and has
become a popular test for GPU benchmarks and CPUs as well. You can see my full overview of the benchmark, what it has to offer over the 2005 version and some other initial scores from my previous article.
These scores are really all over the place comparing the two versions of the GTX 260 card, but where we definitely expected to see a difference, in the pixel shader test, the new BFG MAXCORE card does get a 9% boost in raw performance.