Nv 8600GTS Preview

lay-z-boy · 8 Apr 2007 at 14:25

LoadsaMoney said:
Ouch what a heap of crap that is, what happened to the 7900 GTX performance, it gets obliterated by the x1950pro!!!.

This bit made me laugh :-

'It is early days yet, with the GeForce 8600 GTS running on beta ForceWare drivers.'

No it isn't Nvidia cant do drivers, so those beta's, get ******* used to em as u wont get anymore drivers.

LOL, i enjoy reading your nvidia rants

mtjdavis · 8 Apr 2007 at 14:48

I now feel very glad i brought a 1950pro Ultimate instead of waiting to see what an 8600GTS was like.
But even on preview specs on wikipedia seems it gets beaten by a 1950pro

LoadsaMoney · 8 Apr 2007 at 17:42

lay-z-boy said:
LOL, i enjoy reading your nvidia rants

Yeah its true though aint it, 5+ months on since launch and what are the best drivers for the 8800's, ******* betas, you couldn't make it up!!!.

Can't see how the 8600 range etc... are going to be any different, if they aint going to bother with drivers for their top end 8 series, the mid/low range aint gona get any, simple as that.

Naffa · 8 Apr 2007 at 17:49

Imagine how good these will be with working drivers. :cool:

Darkwave · 8 Apr 2007 at 17:52

naffa said:
Imagine how good these will be with working drivers.

I don't think God himself could make a driver that stops a 128-bit memory interface being craptastic.

Naffa · 8 Apr 2007 at 17:59

But Nvidia could probably write some working drivers if they REALLY put their minds to it.

lay-z-boy · 8 Apr 2007 at 18:11

naffa said:
But Nvidia could probably write some working drivers if they REALLY put their minds to it.

Chances of them doing that are pretty much nil though, aren't they?

Naffa · 9 Apr 2007 at 01:12

Yep.

Cupra · 9 Apr 2007 at 01:55

lay-z-boy said:
Chances of them doing that are pretty much nil though, aren't they?

yeah so dont bother buying it then.. as someone said 8800 drivers are still crap even the newest ones so the lower end ones will be the same unless they get lucky making them

musx64 · 9 Apr 2007 at 06:58

That's why im considering buying a cheap gfx card to tie me over for a few months - Whats a 7600GT/GS compare in performance w/ a x1950 pro ?

easyrider · 9 Apr 2007 at 10:23

I think the 8600 will pack a punch when clocked.

The 7600 GT is 128 bit and that was a fine card for the money.

musx64 · 9 Apr 2007 at 11:24

easyrider said:
I think the 8600 will pack a punch when clocked.

I think we have seen it when it gets overclocked, frankly speaking if the card retails sub £130-150, then you can pickup a x1950 pro 256 approx. £130inc. vat, which I would rather go for.

Or wait it out for a few more months & buy something better.

Massive Attack · 9 Apr 2007 at 12:44

well what a disapiontment i was going to upgrade to this from my 7600GT, im limited on space with my case so hopefully ATI are going to bringout somthing better than this poor attempt.

MeatLoaf · 9 Apr 2007 at 13:32

I should think its a fairly decent upgrade from the 7600GT tho

musx64 · 10 Apr 2007 at 06:24

MeatLoaf said:
I should think its a fairly decent upgrade from the 7600GT tho

Go w/ a x1950pro other places have got these from £105inc. vat

Darkwave · 10 Apr 2007 at 06:41

musx64 said:
Go w/ a x1950pro other places have got these from £105inc. vat

Agreed. No way is 8600 going to cost less than that.

Massive Attack · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:26

i agree just a cant get a damn X1950Pro in my case, limited to 8 inches minus the pci-e connector

FirebarUK · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:28

Mod the case, thats what I did. Modding in the sense of taking a hacksaw to the floppy cage. Easy peasy. I had an 8800GTS in my V300

Massive Attack · 10 Apr 2007 at 15:40

FirebarUK said:
Mod the case, thats what I did. Modding in the sense of taking a hacksaw to the floppy cage. Easy peasy. I had an 8800GTS in my V300

not really on option for me tbh seeing as i have nearly 1.6TB worth of drives in there

titaniumx3 · 10 Apr 2007 at 16:22

Those results are a bit odd. For past nvidia midrange releases we have observed the following:

6600GT > 5950Ultra/9800XT
7600GT > 6800Ultra/X850XT

Yet 8800GTS can't even compete with an X1950Pro let alone an 7900GTX/X1950XTX which is what its supposed to do.

Also the specs are equivalent to the following:

745mhz Core/1150mhz DDR3 Mem
256bit bus
64 shaders
256mb

Thats just 300mhz less than my X1900XT memory clocks, which can't possibly make that much difference. I reckon its either a driver issue or those shaders have been crippled in some way.