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Reinventing the G80 - the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB

By Vincent Chang - 29 Oct 2007

Results - Company of Heroes & Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo

Results - Company of Heroes & Unreal Tournament 3 Beta Demo

Company of Heroes saw the GeForce 8800 GT taking a rather large lead over the GeForce 8800 GTX, though remember the GTX was on older drivers. The XFX however showed its weakness here as it finished last despite the higher clocks. When it came to the Radeon HD 2900 XT, the GeForce 8800 GT should be at least on par with its ATI rival.

We encountered some problems on the GeForce 8800 GT in Quake 4, when 4xAA was enabled. While we could run it, the frame rates were much lower than expected. It could likely be a driver glitch, but we couldn't confirm at this point of time. In its place, we have the beta demo of the widely anticipated Unreal Tournament 3 instead. As the actual game is not available yet, the beta demo did not have a complete set of benchmarking tools like the previous versions. There is however, a repeatable flyby demo that reported the frame rates and we used the VCTF map Suspense in this case.

It turned out that high clock speeds mean a lot in UT3, with the XFX churning out higher frame rates than the GeForce 8800 GT, due to its excessively high clocks. The GeForce 8800 GT remained slightly slower than the GeForce 8800 GTX and there was no doubting its superiority over the vanilla GeForce 8800 GTS, whether it be 320MB or 640MB.

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