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Affordable DX10 - GeForce 8600 GTS and 8600 GT

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-a-bit-more-than-nine dept.

mikemuch writes "While ATI still hasn't released a DX-10-capable graphics card, Nvidia today already released its affordable SKUs, in descending price and performance order the GeForce 8600 GTS and GeForce 8600 GT, and 8500 GT. The GTS costs $200-230, the GT from $150-170, and the 8500 reaching down to the $90 range. The architecture for the new GPUs is the same as for the 8800 line, but with lower clocks and fewer stream processors."

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  1. too many models and lines by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wish there was an easier way to judge the speed of one Nvidia card against another just by looking at the name. I can never tell.

    Are these faster than my 7800GS? Would they be faster than a 7800GT? Who can fucking tell?

  2. Re:Yay! DX10! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And....no drivers for the only OS that supports it. Everybody wins!

  3. It's a *product*, not a SKU by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    WTF is with people calling a product a Stock Keeping Unithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_Keeping_Uni t? It's a physical item, not a freaking number.

  4. So how much did NVidia pay them for this? by Moryath · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The Radeon X1950 beats the NVidia cards in every single test save for the "synthetic" crapmark test that has nothing to do with reality.

    Yet their final page says you should buy the NVidia rather than the X1950?

    Somebody's been paid off. This wasn't an article, it's a fucking stealth ad. They have no integrity.

  5. old $150 x1950 pro outdoes new $200 8600 gts by guidryp · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So in short, you pay more and get less performance in hopes that someday, you will need DX10.

    It seems nice of Nvidia to leave ATI/AMD a chance to beat them squarely in the $200 bracket by showing up with more memory bandwidth.

    8600 is ok but hardly anything to get excited about. More about features than performance or bang/buck.

  6. Re:Yay! DX10! by kestasjk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I stand corrected

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  7. Pot & Kettle by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 4, Insightful
    While ATI still hasn't released a DX-10-capable graphics card,

    And while Nvidia still hasn't released working Vista drivers...

    I would Mod the article submitter Troll -1 over the wording in this article.

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."