[review] Palit GeForce 8800GS 384MB & 768MB
Final thought
8800GS is a good product. 8800GS 384MB outperforms HD 3850 256MB about 10%, and 8800GS 768MB even lead HD 3850 512MB 15%. The price of 8800GS is also attractive. The launch of 8800GS not only threats HD 3850, but also 8800GT 256MB. But because of 8800GS’s late unveiling, this middle market is already occupied by HD 3850.
Because 8800GS is only a temporary product for competing with HD 3850, so it is not “offical”, even the product list in NVIDIA’s official website did not have 8800GS. Only eVGA, XFX, Palit, and ASUS will have 8800GS. Some rumors said the 8800GS’s quantity is not very big, only 150k. So we can expect 8800GS will go back to the stage sometime after February 14th, the date NVIDIA launches 9600GT.
Because 8800GS is for mid-market, so lots of features are omitted. Palit’s 8800GS 384MB version even don’t have the temperature sensor! That means the card fan is always running at 100%, cool, but very loud. If you can not stand it, buy a Palit 8800GS 768MB instead.
Also the metal frame around the GPU is omitted. So please be careful if you want to install some after-market coolers. But after all, 8800GS is a good choice for mainstream users.
XFX’s 8800GS also launched,more choice for us.
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January 21st, 2008 at 10:53 pm
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January 22nd, 2008 at 5:48 am
Jeeeff, first thx for tha article, second you again use testbed with bugs: “eneRmy territory” (and on some other pages like on 22). Please, fix it. And in HL2EP2 still “TIM_DEMO”. BTW ET:QW has patch v1.4. thanksss, strogg…
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:26 am
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January 23rd, 2008 at 12:52 am
Sorry , but your 8800gt 256mb results are questionable at best - I get much better performance with my Gigabyte 8800gt 256MB card factory overclocked, which is a custom non-reference card but I don’t think that should make huge difference — I’m getting much better performance than your tests suggest, and I seriously doubt an 8800gt 384mb card is going to get any major advantage over the 8800gt 256mb at higher resolution with antialiasing - the results are bogus.
For instance, just my test of my 8800gt 256mb with the Crysis in game GPU bench, I get 29 fps at all high settings at 1280×1024, and that’s only on an Athlon x2 3800+ running at 2.75GHz - With the Very high hack in Windows XP, I get 15 fps at 1280×1024 — this is so much higher than your test, that it brings in to question all of your results (bashing) of the 256mb 8800gt card.
Get your act together guys — 18 fps is laughable - I’ve played through the whole game at high settings and it’s very playable average about 30fps.
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:17 am
@ness
notice DX10 for Crysis benchmark… That means Vista, not very good for gaming, sluggish performance. You’re playing on XP, different story. bye bye.
January 24th, 2008 at 2:00 am
Nice test, it’s a good card, but, can you test the 8800GS on Crysis with DX9 and not with Dx10 please ?
Or if someone have a link
January 25th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
[...] four partners will have 8800GS product. They are eVGA，XFX，Palit，and Asus. We’ve notice Palit, ASUS and XFX have unveiled their [...]
February 3rd, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Not a bad review, but I am missing the HD 3870. The 8800GS sells for the same price as a 3870 !!!!! And the 3870 is better for that price.
April 1st, 2008 at 4:58 am
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April 9th, 2008 at 11:33 pm
to “ness”
Windows Vista uses more VGA memory, and thats the cause of the relative better performance of the 8800GT 256mb in Win XP.
May 25th, 2008 at 7:22 am
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May 30th, 2008 at 4:11 am
At techpowerup.com Ifound a test of EVGA e-Geforce 8800GS 384MB.
Strange thing is the Power Consumption when working compared to HD3850.
In your test the 8800GS consumes more power than HD3850, in the other test 8800GS uses less power than HD3850. Do you know why ?
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/EVGA/GeForce_8800_GS
July 20th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
And what where the system specs for this?