8800 GTS 320

hello guys,
how does the 8800GTS 320MB rate against the newcomers,namely the 8800GT 512 & 256MB ,8800GTS 512MB,the 8800GS,9600GT and the Ati 3850,3870 HD series?

thanx mate!that was quick!!!

Still a good card though!

Ok before someone says it... I is a good card if you already own it or get a great deal. I have a buddy who has one and it runs his 22"WS VERY well.

8800GTS 320 works well with those CPUs
about the 1600x1200 i didnt mean that the card cant play games well @ 1600x1200 resolution, i meant that if u rememered the benchmarks of 8800GTS 320 and 640 the difference was very little in resolutions lower than 1600x1200 but the difference gap becomes larger when playing @ 1600x1200+

It will allow your card to open up much more and just inherently a faster CPU can process video much faster as well.

Sooo buy a bigger monitor now. HAHA

I love my 8800GTS 512. It was nice boost from my X1900XTX. Not sure if I'd run it on anything larger than a 22" though. I hooked it up to my 1080P TV and had to lower a few texturing settings in COD4 to keep 60FPS.

I'm not sure 8800GS > 8800GTS 320 is true. Heck, even Nvidia's own naming scheme says its not. (same numerical value, and GTS > GS) The 8800GS is not based off the G92, but is a cut down GTS 640/320.

On the same note, I'm not sure about 9600GT > 8800GTS. The 9600GT is faster, but I'm not sure its worth spending the $200. Before you plunk down the money, make sure the 9600GT is fast enough in your situation.

lol NVIDIA is confusing many people
8800GS,9600GT,8800GT 512 they perform very close

I agree with Paul about the 8800GT 256:

8800GT 256 VS 8800GT 512 VS 8800GT 1024 :
http://techreport.com/articles.x/14230/3

I never said the 9600GT wasn't faster. I said I don't think its worth the price to "upgrade" to the 9600GT if you have a 320/640 GTS. While I haven't checked, I'd bet the performance of these cards are rather close, and not worth the cost of upgrading. (Just like how you said your OC'd GS is nearly as fast as the 320.)

If you are starting from scratch, by all means get the 9600GT. But if you have a 8800GTS already, I wouldn't bother. If I was Maz, I would have wrote

8800GTS 512 > 8800GT 512 > 9600GT ~ 8800GTS 320 ~ 8800 GS

If you already have an 8800GTS 320, then a good upgrade would be the 8800GTS 512. (or the 3870x2) Either of these will provide a noticeable boost, assuming you have a monitor that allows them to flex their mighty muscles.

Weird. In order to prove my point, I went digging. I thought all odd memory width cards were based of the older g80. According to this, I am wrong.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews [...] ce_8800_GS

The GS is a g92. (Unless this graph is wrong.) I thought they were selling their old chips in a new configuration, but I guess not. Either way, it doesn't change what I was saying. While neither of pauls links compare these two cards side by side, I would be VERY surprised to learn that the GS is faster then the GTS.

I certainly hope so, I don't want to upgrade my GTS 512 for at least 2 years

Herm, after I posted this, I went back and reread the message and I think I may have been long winded. I misread what you ment by "future proof." If "future proof for two years" implies that you'll have to buy a new card in 2 years, i agree.

but likely so, you'll probably be better off with a 9600gt unless you have a large (22+) monitor

The 7900GTX appeared in March 2006 which was the equal of the 1900XTX. I only game at 1280 x 1024 so either of those cards would still be OK apart from in the usual games (Crysis)

I stand by my original statement, I think my 8800GTS 512 will be fine until 2010.

To compare a 8600gts even oceed to a 1900xtx isnt right. The xtx would generally walk on it. Since todays games are more similar to yesterdays best/hardest games, just take a look at Oblivion http://www23.tomshardware.com/grap [...] &chart=296 Its nearly 50% faster. The 1900xtx came out in April 06. So, today that card would be showing its legs, but still be playable. You cant say the next lowest, or if you do in that case, theres the 1900xt512mb, which I have one. That card was only 5% slower than the xtx. Since both cards are about 2 years old, and performing just under the lowest 8800 series, shows that the 8800gts512 would be acceptable for 2 years. The GTS is comparable to the GTX, like the xtx was to the xt.

Pauldh, that link shows a X1950XTX which as we all know stuffed all the GF7's including the 7950GX2.

I think it's just the way video cards favour alternate companies. ATI with their Radeon X1*** series beat the GF7's, whilst the GF8's beat the HD2's and 3's.
However we may have a swift reversal this summer as the GF9's have not been the quantam leap we expected whilst the HD4's are looking (on paper at least) very promising (fingers crossed that these specs are true)

Also, the link showed Resolution of 1600 x 1200; If I played at that resolution then yes, I doubt whether my 8800GTS 512 would last 2 years.

Let's put it another way when I bought my GF6800GT early in 2005 It played everything in max. It was only in 2007 that I had to turn down settings and reduce resolution to 1024 x 768 to get acceptable frame rates (especially in CoH & Oblivion)
It was only summer last year that I really felt that it had had it's day and I needed to upgrade.

the 8800gts 512MB would last for 2 years for sure.everything max will be ok even in full hd resolution.but just turn AA on because it doesnt offer any real visual improvement other than performance hit!on 1920+ res since at the res the texture are so fine by itself so AA doesnt give out improvement.

even today!if games got aa turn on at 1920 will offer not much of a improvement and will give you big frame rate drop.but because without AA its got 100+fps so even if the frame rate half it would be still fluid in game play.

I do agree with you without fsaa it will play most games just fine at 19x12, but you seem to have an inflated outlook of the cards power in current games. The 8800GTS G92 can't max every game now at 19x12, nor 16x10 even when you consider Crysis, so how will it last two more years at max detail at 19x12? You are kidding yourself to expect 100+ fps to be normal for this card at that res and max details. Try Crysis, Lost planet, World in Conflict, Oblivion, etc.

I only game at 16x10, but I am also one who has the jaggies jump out. Depending on the game, 2xaa is typically minimum for me, but I'll crank aa if there is performance to spare. Even at 16x10 I find SLI 8800GT to benefit my gaming experience.