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9800 GTX Reviews

Ive bought one :D

Reason I went for it was I dont have to change my 500w psu
Hardocp review shows 3870x2 performs poorly in real world scenarios
Most reviews show it clocking very well
 
I know ill get told off for this and probably get banned for a week.... but what a load of ****! Nvidia are really starting to **** me off with all these new expensive cards that arent any better than the current ones :S

I feel sorry for the people who buy these thinking because there the newest and most expensive that they will be the best! Not everyone plays at High res. I do and i have an 8800Ultra which is amazing!

****RANT OVER****
 
Don't see what all the fuss is about, when you're on top there's no pressure to release a new generation of card.

9700 Pro > 9800 Pro > 9800 XT anyone? X800 series weren't vastly different cards either so it's not exactly a new practise in the industry.
 
Don't see what all the fuss is about, when you're on top there's no pressure to release a new generation of card.

9700 Pro > 9800 Pro > 9800 XT anyone? X800 series weren't vastly different cards either so it's not exactly a new practise in the industry.

X800 was almost twice the speed of a 9800.

And as for the 9700-9800 cards they were all the same generation.

The problem is nvidia claiming the 9800GTX is a new generation of GPU and charging a premium for it, when infact it isn't it is still an '8' series.
 
Hello LoadsaMoney, bit-tech have also done a review of the Nvidia 9800 GTX. Though, I suppose it doesn't really make any difference since all of the reviews are saying roughly the same thing. :p:)

Thanks, added to op. :)

Yeah its a pointless release, but as was said above, its probably targeted at those not in the know, those who will think its better than the the GTS as its called a GTX (GTX being Nvidia's top card naming), and its a bigger number. :(
 
Tomshardware, summed up below

So come on, Nvidia. Is this really the best you can do 17 months after the 8800 GTX?
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX: A card that's almost as fast as the 8800 Ultra at a much lower price is a good thing. But a year and a half after the release of the GeForce 8 series, and even though AMD doesn't really have anything that can go head to head with this card, we'd have liked a little more punch to replace the 8800 GTX with (which is also now being sold for under $400). What we got instead was a card that's very noisy under load and limited by a stingy 512 MB of memory. These drawbacks are especially disappointing given that the 8800 GTS 512 MB is very similar and less expensive.
+ Performance close to that of the 8800 Ultra at half the price / Support for HybridPower (with compatible motherboards) - Noisy under load / Only 512 MB of memory / Not different enough from the 8800 GTS 512 MB, 8800 GTX and Ultra, although they're previous-generation cards and often less expensive.

22" and 24" overall averages
http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/04/01/nvidia_geforce_9800gtx_review/page15.html
 
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