A Ten-Course GeForce 8800 GT Feast

Results - 3DMark06 (ver 102)

Results - 3DMark06 (ver 102)

While a synthetic benchmark like 3DMark06 has often taken flak from enthusiasts on a number of issues, from relevance to neutrality, there is no doubt that it does manage to distinguish adequately between small differences in clock speeds. This is exactly the situation that we find ourselves in with these 10 GeForce 8800 GTs, where the differences may well boil down to 10MHz in core clocks.

Looking at the scores for our cards, we can probably split them roughly into three groups, the standard GeForce 8800 GTs, the two stand-outs, overclocked versions, namely the ASUS and the Zotac and then there were a bunch of similarly overclocked cards all jousting in the middle, where it could be quite difficult to distinguish. The differences became more pronounced at the higher settings like when we enabled anti-aliasing but heading the table was the ASUS EN8800GT TOP, which was actually shadowed very closely by the Zotac. Effectively, these two cards are almost identical, but ASUS has a higher shader processor clock speed that managed to garner the slight edge.