The G92 8800GT is a better card IMO. You may want to try and find one with an improved dual slot cooler since the GT runs a little warm. This would also be a good option: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] CatId=1826
fantastic advice! thank you.
The card I referenced above is 640MB but the one you reffered me to is 512MB ... could you please advise why you chose a card with less ram?
Is the 8800GTS a worse performing card compared to the 8800GT?
Message edited by ddasilva on 03-09-2008 at 07:54:18 PM
The G92 architecture is superior to the G80 used in the 640mb version. Yes, the 8800GT is a superior card to the GTS 640. The GTS 512mb is a better card than both the 640 and the GT. Sorry should have posted a link supporting that.
Why do we use the slower clocked C2Ds instead of the faster clocked 9xx Pentium series? You CAN NOT look at only one part of a device and decide how it would perform. Just because X has more of Z then Y does, doesn't mean its going to perform better.
Why has the meghertz myth only been broken for CPUs? Why do people think that because X video card has more memory, it must be faster? Or X CPU has more L2 cache, it must be faster? Why do people believe that the raptor is faster just because it spins at 10,000RPMs? Or that its slower because it uses SATA instead of SATA300/SATA2? It seems that most people have figured out that CPU frequency isn't everything, but it also seems to stop there. Folks, the same reasons apply to everything else. Sure, the 8800GT has less ram. But for the card you linked, it also has more shaders, allowing it to do more work.[/rant]
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Thank you for your thoughts. I am very surprised to see the new GTS is not as good as its predessor the GT. Could someone advise why the GTS is not a great performer like the GT?
I see whats going on here. You got your cards mixed up. The 8800GTS 640mb is the original GTS. The 8800GT and GTS 512mb are newer cards that use a new core (G92 compared to G80) and also have more stream processors. As 4745454b stated, memory isn't everything any more than clock speeds are.
The new performance scheme looks like this: 8800GTS 320 (G80)< 8800GTS 640(G80)< 8800GT 512(G92) < 8800GTS 512 (G92)
Message edited by lostandwandering on 03-09-2008 at 08:17:40 PM
The 8800GTS 320 and 640 came first, aka g80, then came the 8800GT 512 and then the 8800GTS512 aka g92. The g80 (8800GTS 320/640) are older, and inferior products. Its confusing, blame nVidia for that
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Thanks for your post everyone. I was originally going to purchase a 8800GT, however, it sounds like a 8800GTS is the way to go. Is there another card I should consider?
Thanks for your post everyone. I was originally going to purchase a 8800GT, however, it sounds like a 8800GTS is the way to go. Is there another card I should consider?
I hope you're talking about the 512MB 8800GTS. You make it sound like you are going to buy the 640MB GTS that you listed in the OP, which as many have pointed out here would be a mistake.