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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. wow by pppppppman · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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!