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NVIDIA's Mainstream Graphics - GeForce 8600 GT & 8500 GT

By Vincent Chang - 23 May 2007

Results - Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (DirectX 9 Benchmark)

Results - Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (DirectX 9 Benchmark)

Like 3DMark, there were naturally two groups of results, with the GeForce 8600 GT leading the pack and in the other, the GeForce 7600 GS was reminding us of its pedigree by outperforming the new GeForce 8500 GT. Even the GeForce 7300 GT managed to squeeze ahead of the GeForce 8500 GT, which showed that this card has been seriously handicapped in order to fit into its lower end price segment. Another interesting point was when anti-aliasing was enabled, we noted a steeper decline in the scores of the GeForce 8600 GT compared to ATI's Radeon X1650 XT. End result - the ATI card performed closer to the GeForce 8600 GT than one would expect.

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