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Early 8600 Benchies

shame like, considering there last mid-range card the 7600GT beat previous generation card the 6800 ultra, well for a mid-range card what can you expect, i have gut feeling X2600XT will be faster mind :p
 
A DX10 7900GT beating mainstream card seems good to me? Like PinkFloyd said, its all about the pricing and which market segment Nvidia is aiming this card at.
 
so what are you saying? that it makes sense to continue producing cards from an outdated architecture instead of shifting LOW MID and HIGH end cards to the same architecture to reduce manufacturing costs and drive down the ASP at a level of performance?

these cards will be like £100 - £140 surely, and simply replace the 7900GT's of the world brining the performance to a new price point. as did the 6600GT's when they were introduced etc.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Erm its a mid-range card. :p

Exactly. I think some people are missing the point and expecting far too much from these cards. I found those benchmarks to be pretty impressive and will be getting the GTS cause i only have a small 15" monitor which i will later upgrade and upgrade the graphics card then too. For the price i think these cards will be amazing for the price-performance ratio. If the 7900GTX can run Crysis well then these will also run it fine if not better because of DX10 cause the 7900 had to simulate it which was obviously very hard for it to do.
 
Now it became "mid range card" ? I thought the 8 series was a new era of technology, innovation and epenix?
 
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drak3 said:
Now it became "mid range card" ? I thought the 8 series was a new era of technology, innovation and epenis?

It still has all the DX10 goodness, but Nvidia cant obviously call all their cards high-end cause it is lower than the 8800GTX and 8800GTS so hince its call "mid-range". Would you call the 8300GT for $80 high-end?
 
Bit disappointing...

9800 Pro ~ 6600GT
X800XT/6800U ~ 7600GT

But the new 8600s aren't close to the X1900/7900 series in performance.
 
Tute said:
Bit disappointing...

9800 Pro ~ 6600GT
X800XT/6800U ~ 7600GT

But the new 8600s aren't close to the X1900/7900 series in performance.

The 8600GTS beats the 7900 in the benchmarks.
 
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