From what i've read, the 8600GT performance compared to the 7600Gt is slower or marginal increase in some games, read the following -
Games such as Doom 3 saw the 7600 GT delivering 100% more performance on average when compared to the 6600 GT. Then visually intense games such as F.E.A.R were an impressive 85% faster with the 7600 GT. These kinds of gains were also seen in Quake 4 and X3: Reunion, proving that the 7600 GT was a worthy successor of the 6600 GT and well worth the upgrade! Now has the 8600 GT carried on the success of the 6600 GT and 7600 GT graphics cards?
Not at all, the 8600 GT is a joke in my opinion and does not deserve to be part of the x600 GT series. If anything, what we have see here today should have been performance delivered by the 8500 GT, not the 8600 GT. The results really spoke for themselves, as the GeForce 8600 GT was 12% slower in Far Cry, 17% slower in F.E.A.R, 7% slower in X3: Reunion and 19.5% slower in Company of Heroes. The only two games that the 8600 GT came out on top in was Prey (15.5%) and Supreme Commander (27.5%), making a two out of six effort very poor indeed.
Any opinions or upgrade experience from 7600GT to 8600GT?
Games such as Doom 3 saw the 7600 GT delivering 100% more performance on average when compared to the 6600 GT. Then visually intense games such as F.E.A.R were an impressive 85% faster with the 7600 GT. These kinds of gains were also seen in Quake 4 and X3: Reunion, proving that the 7600 GT was a worthy successor of the 6600 GT and well worth the upgrade! Now has the 8600 GT carried on the success of the 6600 GT and 7600 GT graphics cards?
Not at all, the 8600 GT is a joke in my opinion and does not deserve to be part of the x600 GT series. If anything, what we have see here today should have been performance delivered by the 8500 GT, not the 8600 GT. The results really spoke for themselves, as the GeForce 8600 GT was 12% slower in Far Cry, 17% slower in F.E.A.R, 7% slower in X3: Reunion and 19.5% slower in Company of Heroes. The only two games that the 8600 GT came out on top in was Prey (15.5%) and Supreme Commander (27.5%), making a two out of six effort very poor indeed.
Any opinions or upgrade experience from 7600GT to 8600GT?