edit: DIRT benches added
edit: Crysis benches added (8800GT only because my GTS is now in the post to it's new owner
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I have just spent the past 6 hours benching my new Inno3d 8800GT against my old EVGA 8800GTS 640MB. Results below.
With both cards running at stock settings the 8800GT soundly thrashes the GTS by 20-40% in most benches except 3DMark01. 3DMark01 is heavily CPU limited and I have included it just for reference.
However, the GTS overclocks much better (percentage wise) than the 8800GT. When both are overclocked the gap narrows considerably to a point where there is only 5-20% difference in most benches.
Supreme Commander and Oblivion give much higher frame rates on the GT, but there must be a driver issue with the 169.04's because min frame rates for Oblivion are much worse on the GT.
DIRT is a game that likes top end cards. At Max settings the GT can play this very smoothly with extremely consistant framerates. The GTS cannot keep up and feels choppy by comparisson.
Overall, when both are overclcoked there is NOT a massive difference between the two cards. The biggest advantage of the GT is it's price.
Crysis only really runs smooth at 1680x1050 on Medium settings. Any higher and FPS slow down too much and some things actually begin to look worse. An example of this is distant mountains. On Medium settings they are well defined and crystal clear but on high or very high they are blurry. You also see objects such as rocks and bushes popping up, even at close distance on the high/very high settings. This must be down to lack of physical memory.
At 1280x1024 the GT will play Crysis on High settings smoothly, but very high is too choppy and results in the same image issues as above.
Anti Aliassing is not usable at any res tested. Even at 1280x1024 with medium settings FPS struggles to reach 20 with even 2xAA enabled. Crysis seems very poorly coded. IMHO it looks no better that Half Life 2 EP2, and little better than the original Far Cry. The latter two will comfortably put out >100fps on max settings using a GTS or GT.
edit: Crysis benches added (8800GT only because my GTS is now in the post to it's new owner
).I have just spent the past 6 hours benching my new Inno3d 8800GT against my old EVGA 8800GTS 640MB. Results below.
With both cards running at stock settings the 8800GT soundly thrashes the GTS by 20-40% in most benches except 3DMark01. 3DMark01 is heavily CPU limited and I have included it just for reference.
However, the GTS overclocks much better (percentage wise) than the 8800GT. When both are overclocked the gap narrows considerably to a point where there is only 5-20% difference in most benches.
Supreme Commander and Oblivion give much higher frame rates on the GT, but there must be a driver issue with the 169.04's because min frame rates for Oblivion are much worse on the GT.
DIRT is a game that likes top end cards. At Max settings the GT can play this very smoothly with extremely consistant framerates. The GTS cannot keep up and feels choppy by comparisson.
Overall, when both are overclcoked there is NOT a massive difference between the two cards. The biggest advantage of the GT is it's price.
Crysis only really runs smooth at 1680x1050 on Medium settings. Any higher and FPS slow down too much and some things actually begin to look worse. An example of this is distant mountains. On Medium settings they are well defined and crystal clear but on high or very high they are blurry. You also see objects such as rocks and bushes popping up, even at close distance on the high/very high settings. This must be down to lack of physical memory.
At 1280x1024 the GT will play Crysis on High settings smoothly, but very high is too choppy and results in the same image issues as above.
Anti Aliassing is not usable at any res tested. Even at 1280x1024 with medium settings FPS struggles to reach 20 with even 2xAA enabled. Crysis seems very poorly coded. IMHO it looks no better that Half Life 2 EP2, and little better than the original Far Cry. The latter two will comfortably put out >100fps on max settings using a GTS or GT.
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Edit: Sod it just pre-ordered the cheapest OcUK one, I can wait until it's here before listing my 8800GTX for sale. 
