8800 GTS... overclocks?

[Cashman]

Morning all....

I made the leap and bought myself a BFG 8800GTS last night, should be here this morning

Am I the only one who bought a GTS rather than the GTX?

I'm dying to know what you lot think of them and how they clock etc...

 

[melbourne720]

'the word' is that they will go up to GTX speeds/scores, I'd be interested if the man in the street (no offence) can do that.

 

[Cashman]

Grat.. im glad I went for that card, I was very tempted to go for the gtx in the hope id get a 24" widescreen soon.... but im assuming a 8800gts will still be "ok" for 1900x1200?

 

[wannabedamned]

I have a question too, I spotted in a post the other day, Someone said the GTS clocked to GTX standards, But they then said they expect it to perform to GTX standards atleast in DX9 games. Is there any reason it would perform any less than GTX standards in DX10? Thanks

 

[Deleted User 234324]

I have a question too, I spotted in a post the other day, Someone said the GTS clocked to GTX standards, But they then said they expect it to perform to GTX standards atleast in DX9 games. Is there any reason it would perform any less than GTX standards in DX10? Thanks

At a guess dx10 games will make very heavy use of the unified shader support on the cards via geometry/pixel/vertex shaders so having the extra 32 shaders will aid the gtx a lot, apart from that there wont be any other major differences.

 

[ubern00b]

I have an XFX GTS and am running it at 630mhz core and 1.8ghz mem. The thing flies! Absolutely loving it

 

[ugly ferret]

I've been following this quite closely and in 3dmark06 an overclocked gts appears to just about match a stock gtx though I think the clocks will need to be around 650/2000 to match it.

Stock gts scores around 3700 in both sm2 and sm3 tests.

Overclocked to 650/2000 gts scores around 4600 in sm2 and sm3 tests.

Stock gtx scores around 4700 in sm2 and sm3 tests.

Overclocked to around 650/2000 gtx scores around 5400 in sm2 sm3 tests.

 

[melbourne720]

Stock gts scores around 3700 in both sm2 and sm3 tests.

Overclocked to 650/2000 gts scores around 4600 in sm2 and sm3 tests.

Stock gtx scores around 4700 in sm2 and sm3 tests.

Overclocked to around 650/2000 gtx scores around 5400 in sm2 sm3 tests.

Nice speeds...

If only all overclocking roundups were as clearly put as that. Well done ugly ferret.

 

[Noxis]

Taken from here:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=122430

The reason the overclock makes such a difference though is the clock deltas.

Remember how the G70 had a geometry clock that was higher clocked? Well the shaders on the 8800GTS/GTX run roughly ~235% faster than the core. So 100mhz overclock on the core is likely to be 234-235mhz faster on the shaders... 660 core should be around 1550 mhz shader clock, so I can see how it would be possible for those clocks to catch and beat the stock 8800GTX.

In games like oblivion and f.e.a.r. that might not be the same case though, as the shaders are put under a lot more demand than they are in HL2 and CoH. There's still a good chance that the 8800GTS won't catch it in those games.

Make your decision based upon how much you can afford. If you can afford the GTX, then get the GTX. If you have to question your ability to afford the GTX, then the choice is obvious, get the GTS, and know that you still have an amazing piece of hardware.

It's that simple really guys.

If nVidia allow the shaders to be overclocked separate to the core the GTX will be unbelievably fast (possibly the Ace up their sleeves for the R600? with a driver release). But its an interesting theory that is very likely to be true as to why the GTS gets GTX speeds at just a little more mhz than the GTX.

 

[Cashman]

anyone tell me how to get the overclocking tab in the new nVidia control panel for my 8800GTS?

 

[Cashman]

oops silly me.. found it.

Anyone else who wants to know... just run Coolbits 2.0 and the option appears on the new nVidia panel as before