8800GTS Overclocked gives same performance as Default 8800GTX?

[Noxis]

As per the firingsquad review they have graphs showing a GTS overclocked to 620/904 giving slightly better results than a standard GTX.

Yes of course you can overclock a GTX even faster... but still this is an impressive result.

Now the question is will a GTS hold that margin for the life cycle of these cards or will new drivers release more power from the GTX and will DX10 give a larger performance margin given the differences between the GTS and GTX in the core? (Stream 96 vs 128 I believe it is).

Obviously no one knows for sure right now but I would be interested in peoples opinions?

 

[pinkacidbootson]

It is the same for the 7900 series. My overclocked 7900GT gives performance on par with a stock 7900GTX.

 

[ernysmuntz]

No because there are physically less shader units (stream processors or whatever they want to call them) in the GTS model, and they run at a slower speed - don't think they get overclocked, even if they do there's still less of them.

Also its on a 320bit bus which is less than the GTX....whatever that means

 

[ernysmuntz]

No to both....could be wrong, i usually am but its my understanding...

 

[Noxis]

No because there are physically less shader units (stream processors or whatever they want to call them) in the GTS model, and they run at a slower speed - don't think they get overclocked, even if they do there's still less of them.

Also its on a 320bit bus which is less than the GTX....whatever that means

Not sure what you mean by "No", right now the overclocked GTS is on par with a GTX.

 

[fornowagain]

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

 

[ernysmuntz]

I mean in the future when we have games that are even more shader intensive, the actual speed of the core\memory won't nessacarily help them if there aren't enough shader units?