NVIDIA 8800GS Brief Test

http://r800.blogspot.com/2007/12/n [...] -test.html

Base on NVIDIA G92 architecture, GeForce 8800 GS Graphics Card embraces 96 stream processors, 48 Texture Filtering Units and 48 Texture Addressing Units,12 ROPs and 192-bit 384MB GDDR3 video memory.


GeForce 8800 GS retail price will be $149-$179.

I don't know about being slower than 3850. It does have all the works to be fast as g80 GTS minus the memory bandwidth. But this is g92 core based with probably faster shaders and 48 texture units.

Not to mention 384mb of video ram that would to better for games that need more than 256mb vram.

This might be the budget card like 7900gs that did really well on terms overclocking and price performance ratio.

Why is this forum so pro ATI?

3850 is not fast as 8800gts. 3850 doesn't even reach the G80 8800gts performance. 8800gt is about 20% faster than g80 GTS or so.

Um...I did check benchmarks. 8800gt 256mb is faster than 3870 long as you don't turn up the resolution up 1920x1200 with AA. Only game 3850 has a chance is crysis even then if you don't turn up the resolution it does fine.

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardwar [...] page16.asp

I am surprised to see NV actually bother with a card like this, but it might not be a bad little card for overclocking as marvelous mentioned?

How can the the memory be narrower with the same core?

http://www23.tomshardware.com/grap [...] &chart=318

THG is about the only ones I can find. And yes it seems that the 8800GTS 320mb is better.

12 ROP's ayee.
ATI 3850 has 16.
48 TMU's aye
ATI 3850 has 16
198bit ayee.
ATI 3850 uses 256bit.

personally i dont think this card has the power to take on the 3850 at all. the only thing its got going for it is texture power.
but instead demolish the 3550's, like say somewhere in between the 3550 and 3850.
like the current 2600XT has 4 ROPS, 8 TMU's. 120 shaders. a ramped clock speed wise 2600xt 55nm shrink doesnt stand a chance in hell.

I just had a look at the techreport article and wasn't too impressed. Usually, I think they do a better job of benchmarking. This looked like something they rushed out to get it out there. Everyone knows that the AMD cards don't do the AA, AF as well, yet they bench'd only with them maxed out. Not that there isn't something to that as most people are going to turn up quality as far as they can, however, people are also going to primarily go for playability. At most of their resolutions with AA AF maxed, playability is terrible. Absolutely. 20-30 FPS...

Tom's had a better article about the NEW 8800GTS and looked at more resolutions and both AA AF maxed out and not. It shows the 3850 being, generally, competetive with the OLD GTS 320. However, the old 320 was defeinitely better in most (almost all) benchies.

Not surprising since the 320 was a $400 card and the 3850 is a $170 card, cooler, quieter, and uses less power.
I'll say my personal preference would be the 3870 because it's quieter, less power hungry and does a better job of video processing and post processing than the Nvidia cards, but I'm not a gamer like most people on here so I know my views are skewed.


An while I'm at it, I don't think a crippled 8800 is going to be as good or better than the 3850. I think the decrease from GT 512 to GT 256 showed that the cores are pretty close without shutting down portions. I think the 3850 will egde the 8800GS slightly and beat the 9600GT as well. Just my thought.


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