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Reinventing the G80 - the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

By Vincent Chang - 29 Oct 2007

Test Setup

Test Setup

The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT was tested on a system with the following configuration:

  • Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (@2.66GHz)
  • Intel D975XBX 'Bad Axe' motherboard
  • 2GB DDR2-800 Kingston HyperX
  • Seagate 7200.7 SATA hard drive
  • Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
  • DirectX 9.0c

Given the high-end pedigree of the new GeForce 8800 GT, we obviously had to trot out the top guns for our benchmarking. This meant all the existing members of the GeForce 8800 series together with ATI's sole high-end contender, the Radeon HD 2900 XT. In lieu of the reference GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, we used XFX's extremely overclocked Fatal1ty edition instead, since it happens to be the fastest GeForce 8800 GTS card we have tested.

As for the drivers used, we were unable to procure a Radeon HD 2900 XT to retest with the latest Catalyst, hence the results are based on our initial review done a couple of months back. The other GeForce 8 cards were running on ForceWare 158.19 while the new GeForce 8800 GT was on 167.37. The complete list of cards and drivers are as follows:

  • NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (ForceWare 167.37)
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB (ForceWare 158.19)
  • NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB (ForceWare 158.19)
  • XFX GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB Fatal1ty (ForceWare 158.19)
  • ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB (8.37 Catalyst drivers)

Meanwhile, the benchmarks tested are as follows:

  • Futuremark 3DMark06 (ver. 102)
  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory (ver 1.3)
  • F.E.A.R
  • Supreme Commander
  • Company of Heroes (ver 1.3)
  • Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo
     
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