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8800gts G92 review, looks to be a good performer :)

I'm not sure if its worth the premium over the GT to be honest. Once you overclock (or get a factory OC) the GT the performance is very similar to the GTS.

The only way I can see that the GTS will work is if Nvidia stops making 512mb GT.

It will be interesting to see what happens, after all its not that far away from next generation cards from Nvidia.
 
Looks a nice card.

I'm liking those benchmarks though, they don't make me feel bad about buying a GTX not long ago :p
The GTX still ha a healthy lead in a lot of the tests.
 
It doesn't look very impressive at all to me, when it's sat next to the 8800GT at least. Slightly faster and doubtless with a hefty price premium when it arrives. Just give us the 9-series already.
 
Something definetly wrong with those Crysis results, although they did state it's due to a driver issue (or is very likely to be so). Other than that it looks like a great card, and worth the extra £5 - £30 over a GT. It's really interestng how much that extra bit of RAM the GTX has is making on the results, I can imagine the 1GB models of these to totally truncate the GTX. These are again with unoptimised drivers, maybe when they get more mature drivers they'll touch the Ultra.

Still, that is some insane power increase from the card when really you aren't getting a LARGE increase in performance (ie. old GTS -> GTX) so I wonder why that much is being used. I think I'm putting some faith into the driver team here, and in a month or so it's lead over the GT will increase and it'll completely overtake the GTX and start approaching the Ultra. Then the 9800's will come and no one will care anymore :P
 
flibby said:
These are again with unoptimised drivers, maybe when they get more mature drivers they'll touch the Ultra.
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Yes - it seems to be underperforming on its paper specs at least. With a couple of driver revisions and if it hits MRRP quickly, it could still be an excellent card. It's just too close to the rumoured release of the 9 series in my opinion.
 
mulpsmebeauty said:
Yes - it seems to be underperforming on its paper specs at least. With a couple of driver revisions and if it hits MRRP quickly, it could still be an excellent card. It's just too close to the rumoured release of the 9 series in my opinion.
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Personally, and I'd like to believe, these are kinda the 9 series and so is the 8800 GT. The 9 series is the G92 GPU which these are, so I think all we'll see is:

8850 GX2
9800 GTX
9800 Ultra

Nvidia models normally range from GT > GTS > GTX > Ultra/GX2 so I can't understand why Nvidia would release a 8800GT and new 8800GTS which completely rock the boat in terms of staying in line with the performance of the series. Maybe we will see a 9800GT and 9800GTS but I think it'll just be a re-release of these cards with some tweaking.

Or that's my opinion at least on what'll happen, who knows :P
 
Looking at the Crisis results there must be some sort of issue with the driver which would also explain the results being in such a mess.

Imagine how it would perform with the GTX bus. :D
 
flibby said:
Nvidia models normally range from GT > GTS > GTX > Ultra/GX2
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The gx2 is far form normal for nvidia, for all anyone knows its a one off they might not repeat. If there is a 9800gtx in february with 2x the performance of a gtx or ultra whos gonna want to get a gx2 in the rumoured January timeframe?
 
I just hope the 9800 series of cards are as fast as everyone thinks (hopes) they're gonna be. Theres gonna be a lot of disappointed ppl if they're not.
 
pieman109 said:
I just hope the 9800 series of cards are as fast as everyone thinks (hopes) they're gonna be. Theres gonna be a lot of disappointed ppl if they're not.
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Could be another fx\r600 fiasco which ideally is what amd needs now if they can come out with the r700 on time, in good supply and it lays a beating on the 9800 series. Going by past track record though getting stuff out on time especially when a new core is involved is far from amd's strong point.
 
Gerard said:
Could be another fx\r600 fiasco which ideally is what amd needs now if they can come out with the r700 on time, in good supply and it lays a beating on the 9800 series. Going by past track record though getting stuff out on time especially when a new core is involved is far from amd's strong point.
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I tend to agree with you there mate. I remember the release of the X800 series of cards (think it was them) from ati and that was a farce, couldn't get hold of them for love nor money. These 8800gt cards are the same. Makes you wonder what with the new rev GTS cards coming out.
 
Gerard said:
The gx2 is far form normal for nvidia, for all anyone knows its a one off they might not repeat. If there is a 9800gtx in february with 2x the performance of a gtx or ultra whos gonna want to get a gx2 in the rumoured January timeframe?
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7 series and 8 series both have/are going to have GX2 models so I'd imagine it's going to continue to the 9 series.
 
Good card, 8800GTX still seems to have a slight edge over the new GTS, especially with AA, I guess the 8800Ultra retains the performance crown.
 
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