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Reinventing the G80 - the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

By Vincent Chang - 29 Oct 2007

Result - 3DMark06 Pro (ver 102)

Result - 3DMark06 Pro (ver 102)

With the older drivers (ForceWare 158.19) that we had for the GeForce 8800 GTX, the new GeForce 8800 GT in fact narrowly edged out the GTX at the lower resolutions. When anti-aliasing was enabled, this advantage disappeared. Since we suspected that our drivers were the reason for the GeForce 8800 GT's slim victories at 1600 x 1200 and below, we reran the GeForce 8800 GTX with the same 167.37 drivers and this time, the GTX was ahead, albeit by a similarly minor margin. Thanks to its high clock speeds, this GeForce 8800 GT looks to be almost on par with the GeForce 8800 GTX. The importance of its 512MB memory buffer was also seen in this benchmark, as the highly overclocked XFX card came within a whisker of matching the GeForce 8800 GT, even with older drivers. This margin however widened at higher resolutions, which is a good advert for having more memory, especially for high-end cards. The original 640MB GeForce 8800 GTS looked well beaten and its days may well be numbered.

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