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8800GTS 512MB G92 put to the test

Category: PC, Posted: 11/29/2007 at 07:03PM CST by Sean Pincombe, Staff Writer

8800gtsTweaktown managed to get their hands on one of NVIDIA's new G92 based 8800GTS 512MB cards. As usual they gave it a good thrashing in their benchmarks to get the all important results for everyone looking to upgrade.

The G92 based 8800GTS 512MB card is NVIDIAs newest release in the update to their 8000 series of video cards.

The 8800 GTS 512MB is supposed to sit in between the current high level cards, namely the 8800 GTX and 8800 Ultra, and the budget king, the 8800GT 512MB.

Here are some of the results:

Bench 1

 

Bench 2
Bench 3
Bench 4
Bench 5

The new 8800GTS 512MB G92 is looking to be a very good card for those people wanting to run games in resoultions of 1920x1200 and above, pipping the GTX in Crysis and a number of other games. The Ultra still wins out, but being the super expensive NVIDIA offering, it was always going to.

If you're looking to upgrade in the near future and are going to be looking for a larger sized monitor in the 28"-30" range, then the 8800GTS 512MB G92 card is perfect.

If, however, you are only going to be getting a screen in the region of 19"-24" then stick with the cheaper 8800GT 512MB card, as the performance difference in the lower resolutions used on the smaller monitors is very small and would be hardly noticable.

[via TweakTown]

Posted by Alex6969 on 11/29/2007 at 08:12PM

Not all that impressed really. There's a difference of less that 5 FPS on average between any of the cards except the old GTS and the ATI, I'm guessing by the crazy numbering system

Posted by lskennedy on 11/29/2007 at 09:23PM

Looks like the geforce 8800 gt is almost the same thing already, not impressed at all either.

Posted by Alex6969 on 11/29/2007 at 09:42PM

Same but different, the GT only is one slot.

Posted by jambo on 11/29/2007 at 10:36PM

The GTS does hold out a LOT better in the higher resolutions though.

Posted by sudpuzzer on 11/29/2007 at 11:04PM

Smaller card would do it for me, I don't see any real reason for this card.

Posted by Greenskull on 11/30/2007 at 12:10AM

This info helps me, thanks!

Posted by Alex6969 on 11/30/2007 at 03:06AM

I will give it it's hight resolution prowess, but I'm sure most of us aren't using 30" monitors. I guess we can dream though...

Posted by Dr.Aaron on 11/30/2007 at 09:57AM

A constant 30fps would be good enough for me. :)

Posted by goatlinks on 11/30/2007 at 10:32AM

Hmmm, interesting to note. I think I am gonna get a 8800 of some kind soon, but I think the GT is where its at.

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