NEW 8800GTS 512MB Reveiwed

[ronnn]

Originally posted by: bryanW1995
tweaktown sucks. wait for a reputable site to release benchies before getting all worked up.

No they don't, hell they were chosen to get this card. Wonder why no aa and af? Maybe to make final results look that much better.

 

[bryanW1995]

how can you say that the 8800gts will perform better than this "free" promotion? an extra 16 sp's and it is better than a gtx??? come on... Also, power should be almost identical to 8800gt OC cards, and noise should be down a LOT with that dual-slot cooling solution. I think that what we've seen, if true, should be enough to get many people to pay $300-$350 for this card.

 

[ronnn]

I am just going history. Early pre reviews of nvidia cards tend to be disappointing as compared to performance on release day. Maybe they hobble early drivers.

 

[Pacfanweb]

They said it was "roughly a 10% advantage over the GT" at higher resolutions in COH. But there was only a 2.6 fps difference at the highest res. And that was at 40-ish fps. Sorry, but that''s more like a 6% difference, which on no planet can be considered "roughly" 10%.

I'll wait until I see a real GTS to form my final opinion, but I see nothing there that would make me give up my GT and get one of those. They are just too close in performance across the board.

And sorry, but I don't put a lot of stock in the unplayable benchmarks. Am I really supposed to care that one card spanks another when they both are under 25 fps? What difference does it make?

 

[ronnn]

Wide open for the sales guy to present the 320mb version as almost as good as the 512mb version, which is worse than the 640mb version or something like that.