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8600 GTS pictured and benchmarked (sorry if old)

LoadsaMoney said:
Yeah looking good considering its on an A64 3000+. :)
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yea that CPU score is bad lol any idea when there out ??? My x1900 GT from HIS is still in RMA !!!! and i dont have the cash for a 8800 GTS so i might get this if its out within the next few weeks
 
Looks good but I think the lower SM 3.0 score may kill it since most games feature heavy SM 3.0/HDR based shading and lighting and I'm pretty sure it will only get worse with DX10. A stock X1900XT gets 2500+ marks in the SM 3.0 and while its SM 2.0 mark is lower, that is probably just a result of lower core/mem clocks.
 
bindip1 said:
yea that CPU score is bad lol any idea when there out ??? My x1900 GT from HIS is still in RMA !!!! and i dont have the cash for a 8800 GTS so i might get this if its out within the next few weeks
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April 17th they out supposedly. :)
 
The 128bit memory could also be the reason why its not scoring the highest of scores. But drivers will be released folks that should increase performance.
 
I only got 19932 on 03 earlier with my 4300 at 3.4ghz and a single :( 7800gt at 1.20/500. Looks like the 8600 has potential. The price point will be either the winner or the loser. Somewhere around £140 at a guess i would say.
 
Not a bad card for its price bracket, looks like this is on par with the X1900XT/XT-X. which is nice considering its going to be uber cheap.
 
I havn't heard much about these cards yet, am I right in thinking that they are essentially budget DX10 cards? If so what is the expected price range £100-150?

Cheers
 
More here gents... http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38346

Nice scores, one big problem

I WAS LUCKY get some quality time with a 8600GTS and 8600GT recently, and happened upon a few numbers you might be interested in. All numbers were measured on an Intel X6800 machine running the latest 3DMark.
The raw scores are 5500 3DMark06 for the GTS and 4800 for the GT, blurred slightly to protect the guilty. That is the good part. The bad part is when you start using heavy textures, performance drops off notably, and I mean notably. Think cliff.

This is most likely because of two things, drivers or bus width. NV drivers are still pretty badly broken, and upcoming cards are probably less of a priority than getting the ones they released almost 6 months ago functional.

The other thing it could be is the narrow memory bus simply choking on all the data. If this is the case, don't look for improvements, this card will always be a benchmark special.

There could be a host of other things, from pre-production boards (doubtful in this case), to sunspots, but the performance drop is quite real. Keep an eye out for this when the boards are finally released on April 17. µ
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Hmm, interesting. I still think the 320MB 8800GTS is the daddy of price/performance boards and will be for some time. With the price of them so low it's simply not worth buying an 8600 GTS imo.
 
Richdog said:
More here gents... http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38346



Hmm, interesting. I still think the 320MB 8800GTS is the daddy of price/performance boards and will be for some time. With the price of them so low it's simply not worth buying an 8600 GTS imo.
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indeed, the 8600 becomes an option @ a £120 price point if you cant justify an extra 60-70! they memory bus is a huge thing which a lot of us said from day one when we discovered this. If the bus was as high as the 8800 series then it woult be like another 8800gts, this is the mid range card so mid range performance.

If NVidia hit a £120 price point then it will sell really well, infact I see it doing well regardless, but this one needs to be really affordable. The 8800gts is still gonna be the winner in Price/Performance stakes however by a long way ;) I just cant see anything moving this card
 
I wonder how high the A64 3000+ was clocked? Just wondering because my old 3700+ @ 2.86GHz bagged a 3dmark06 cpu score of just 100 over that 3000+.

Mul
 
Any ideas if this 8600gts would be a worthy upgrade from a 7800gt? Or should i just wait for 8800gts 320mb price drops.
 
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