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GeForce 8800GTX Benchmarked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-shininess dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The card does not launch for another week, but DailyTech already has benchmarks of the new GeForce 8800GTX on its website. The new card is the flagship GPU to replace GeForce 7900, and according to the benchmarks has no problem embarrassing the Radeon X1950 XTX either. According to the article, 'The GeForce 8800GTX used for testing is equipped with 768MB of GDDR3 video memory on a 384-bit memory bus as previously reported. Core and memory clocks are set at 575 MHz and 900 MHz respectively.'"

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  1. Holy Cow by 0racle · · Score: 2, Funny
    equipped with 768MB of GDDR3 video memory on a 384-bit memory bus as previously reported. Core and memory clocks are set at 575 MHz and 900 MHz respectively
    Would you like some computer with your video card? Why even have a system at all, can I just get a backplane to attach a NIC and power to this card and just run everything from it?
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    1. Re:Holy Cow by msobkow · · Score: 2, Interesting

      That video card has 50% more memory than my development database server.

      Kinda scary, eh?

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    2. Re:Holy Cow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
      equipped with 768MB
      nVidia is preparing for Windows Vista
    3. Re:Holy Cow by Firehed · · Score: 2, Funny

      I know one thing... prove that we have an energy crisis. By singlehandedly causing it.

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  2. wow by pppppppman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow... this thing could run like... two Vistas... maybe

  3. Oh your god! by Daath · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Oh your god! 92% more FPS than ATI's current flagship! Both in HL2 and in Quake 4! "Only" 54% better 3Dmark06 score though. This card is crazy ;P I wish I could afford a truck full of these. Or maybe just one. Hmm and a new CPU... And more RAM... And some huge disks in RAID-5... Damn.

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  4. But.... by thealsir · · Score: 2

    But will the 8600 GT be in a good price range? The 8200? This will matter to a lot more people.

    More power is never, worse, though...unless you are trying to reduce power consumption...

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  5. Of course the real question is by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does it do DirectX 10? If so, how well? I mean the target market here is the high end gamer thus the interest is going to be on having something that supports the latest, greatest. The game development community seems to be going bonkers over DX10 so it's something to consider before you get a card.

    I'm planning on getting a high-end graphics card here soon but I'm going to hold off until Vista is out and running for a bit to evaluate and make sure I get one with good DX10 support. No sense in spending money on a new generation of hardware if it doesn't support the new generation of software fully.

    1. Re:Of course the real question is by AbRASiON · · Score: 3, Informative

      I think you're missing his point.

      Damn good point it is too, I forgot that entirely.

      Sure the card might be good at DX9, this is obvious but how good is it at DX10?
      The ATI offering may be substantially faster, or this thing may only do the basics of DX10 but be unable to do certain DX10 functions in a single pass, where the competition can.

      Who knows? I can say that in the past, sometimes the 2 companies offering, 1 of them has been designed slightly differently which has led to performance hits in certain modes (iirc ATI's competitor to the GF3 was fairly ho-hum, but don't quote me on that)

      So to summarise, it might be a nice DX9 card but until we see what DX10 demands and both DX10 cards can do - we can only be sure of it's current gen performance, not next gen.

  6. AMD ATI vs Nvidia by Black-Six · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now to get things straight, I'm not bashing Nvidia here or criticizing AMD ATI as I own products from both and am very impressed.

    Ok, on to the meat of the topic. I read about this card on Tom's Hardware about a month ago and was very impressed. The specs Nvidia gave Tom's for the 8800GTX was 768mb of GDDR4 memory, 128 pixle pipelines, dual 384 bit memory busses (768 bit total), 4 RAMDAC cores at 450mhz and 2 G80 cores at 550 mhz with the memory at 1000mhz (2000mhz for DDR). The card probably won't have a aftermarket cooling solution for sometime as the user can only apply one HSF to one G80 core. Also I understand the G80 is a 75nm chip instead of a 90nm chip. This provides reduced power consumption.

    Now what I'd like to see happen is AMD get on-board with ATI and do there magic on the operations per clock view of a VGA and help ATI churn out some killer VGA's that are smaller and cheaper yet rival monsters like the 8800 GTX.

    Overall, both companies are kings in there own rights, for now anyway. AMD holds ground in the CPU market like none other and Nvidia churns out next gen products at better prices and performances. Who knows what these guys have in store for us, but one thing is certain only user demands and time will tell us what the next gen VGA will be.

    1. Re:AMD ATI vs Nvidia by tonyray · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Who knows what these guys have in store for us

      From what I've been reading, come late 2008, AMD will have one or more GPU's built into their multi-core processors using a new modular technology which allows them to quickly create application targetted processors. One processor for games, another for database servers, still another for scientific applications requiring parallel processing, and so on. This is AMD's much reported "Fusion" technology.

  7. Re:Direct X 10? by William_Lee · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Here are the full specs on the card...As mentioned it offers DirectX10 support and is also HDCP complaint for those who care.

    http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=444 1

  8. Re:DirectX 10 and Vista by westlake · · Score: 2, Interesting
    Microsoft has also said DirectX 10 and Vista will not be backward compatible with previous versions of DirectX.

    "Windows Vista continues to support the same Direct3D and DirectDraw interfaces as Windows XP, back to version 3 of DirectX (with the exception of Direct3D's Retained Mode, which has been removed). Just as with Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, 64-bit native applications on Windows Vista are limited to Direct3D9, DirectDraw7, or newer interfaces. High-performance applications should make use of Direct3D 9 or later to ensure that they have the closest match to the hardware capabilities." Graphics APIs in Windows Vista

  9. Re:CRAZY by scott_evil · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What impressed me most is the fact that a review site didn't feel the need to lay out 20 pages of crap to give an overall idea of how the card ran. Two thumbs up for that alone...

  10. Somewhat confused by ET_Fleshy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where are the remaining 27 pages of the article?

    And where are the adds?

    Did I time travel 4 years in the past? What year is it!

  11. Re:Well? by crossmr · · Score: 2, Funny

    Monday, they're planning on rolling out the 9800 next Thursday.

  12. Re:Well? by Chandon+Seldon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just as long as it's not the 9800 Pro, that's fine.

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