HIS Radeon HD 3850 IceQ 3 TurboX VS. EVGA GeForce 8800 GT

I was looking at this two cards and I'm undecided which one has better performance than the other. Both have the same price except for the akimbo card and the GTS card.
The ATI HD 3850 has the fastest Coreclock of All Geforce cards and better cooling system but still I don't know how good they are in performance and most Importantly Which one Should I buy? I can't afford anything higher than this.

Look at the website and compare this 2 cards and also look at the video review they have:

HIS Radeon HD 3850 IceQ 3 TurboX
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] CatId=1826

Geforce 8800GT
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] CatId=3670

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Geforce 8800GTS AKIMBO
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] CatId=3670

Geforce GTS KO
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] CatId=3585



Please Don't be Bias on your choice and please tell me why which one is better than the other according to the Specs.

the 8800GT is much faster than the 3850. but i would suggest you get a 4850 or 4870 instead.

8800GT GTS dont worth the extra.

Do you know what is the Shader clock speed of the 3850??

clock speeds aren't a good way to compare cards. my old 7600GT runs at 580Mhz, but can't even hold a candle to to the 8800GT. it depends on many factors, which depend on the manufacturer. the only way to compare is through real world benchmarks. even artificial benchmarks arent so great for comparing performance. the 2900XT was great in synthetics, but was terrible in games.

i would have to say the gt, dx10 cards have shaders the 3850 has a fixed shader/core but the gt,s shaders run a lot faster than the core

hope this helps

why not choose the HD4870?

faster and cheaper than 8800GTS you got

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applica [...] CatId=3670

Kind of wonder how the 38xx series would have performed if they had equal number comparative SP's to the 8800GT's 112. ie.. 640 instead of 320, (320/5=64 nv SP's). They may have had slower shaders but a huge number more and with the faster clocks would that have leveled the playing field or not at all? Can't say that would have made a difference when enabling AA/AF but still.