G92 --- GT vs. GTS Overclocking

[Teaf]

Looking at these numbers I really feel that this just strengthens my point about the 8800GT 512MB being a crazy model. With a bit of overclocking on its stock cooler you can bring it up to the performance of the new stock clocked G92 based 8800GTS.

The 8800GTS is going to launch at $100 USD more than the 8800GT (or about $150 AUD). This is a lot of money. Ultimately the 8800GTS G92 card is going to be a faster offering; and sure the price increase isn’t insane like the Ultra was to the GTX, but the model doesn’t seem to fit that great into the full lineup.

If on the other hand the good G92 cores only go to the 8800GTS and the 8800GT becomes a poor overclocker then it could be a different story. Also, if the 512MB model becomes discontinued and a lower speed 256MB model hits the market we again could see how it would become a good model. The bottom line though is that the 8800GT 512MB is such a good model you can completely understand why there are so many on back order.

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[Teaf]

Their results for Crysis actually contradict their results for the orignal review of the card at stock in which they claimed the GT was faster than it when they were both not overclocked, in this instance it seems an overclocked GT is on par stock GTS.

 

[Teaf]

still no 60fps in crysis??? looks like i got to rough it with the x1900xt till december 2008 then.

I think they probably did those tests with the pre-done GPU benchmark batch file that comes with Crysis, personally I found that in game was always higher than the benchmark said, like on my old 2900XT I found the benchmark said about 30 FPS but in game it was more like 50+ most of the time.