Official 8600 Series Review Thread

8600-Series info/reviews go here.

Perkam

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=140531
shamino goes haywire

K guys right now, Please do not make posts without a link to a preview or an actual review !!

Opinion and other discussion can be done here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=139491

Perkam

http://www.au-ja.de/review-club3d8600gts-1.phtml
http://de.babelfish.yahoo.com/transl...C3%9Cbersetzen

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Opinion and other discussion can be done here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=139491

Perkam

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why can i NOT access this page :confused:

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why can i NOT access this page :confused:

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Fixed.

Perkam

8600GTS released in Australia yesterday
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...s.cfm?t=715719

http://vr-zone.com/?i=4883

NVIDIA GeForce 8600GTS Performance Preview
http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles...?cid=3&id=2231

Ty for links gentlemen.

As i said before...the only posts that will be allowed will be links.

Perkam

NV 8600GTS benchmark
http://www.ocworkbench.com/2007/nvidia/8600GTS/b1.htm

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/107...ere/index.html

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/articl...50aHVzaWFzdA==

anandtech article

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2970

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/...spx?i=2970&p=1

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=8409

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?type=expert&aid=392

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/426/1/

http://www.nvnews.net/previews/gefor...sx/index.shtml

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles...?cid=3&id=2237

Legit Reviews article

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/486/1/

Fudzilla - Gainward Bliss 8600GTS
http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?op...d=575&Itemid=1

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?type=expert&aid=392
http://legionhardware.com/document.php?id=636
http://www.xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/g...ds/msi-8600gt/
http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/ind...=379&Itemid=27

A few more for the list, enjoy :)

This should pretty much contain every 8600GTS & 8600GT performance review/preview. :thumbsup:

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Geforce 8800 GTX:
10.255 3DMarks

Geforce 8600 GTS:
5.564 3DMarks

Geforce 8600 GT:
4.608 3DMarks

Geforce 8500 GT:
2.232 3DMarks

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http://www.pcgameshardware.de/?article_id=575622

http://www.oc-lab2.com/test.php?t=28 (Slovenian // slovensko)

OC-Lab2's review of Club3D's retail GeForce 8600GTS. Watercooled pushed up to 1000MHz core clock speed and 1220MHz RAM frequency. DICE overclocking very soon... :D

tech report

http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q2...0/index.x?pg=1

xbit labs

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/vid...ce8600gts.html

A Common misconception solved: http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce8.html

8600 series has 32, not 64, shaders...making them a third the no. of shaders compared to 8800gts 320mb...for 80% of the price.

Perkam

'As for the 8600, right out of the gate, 32 SPs mean one third the clock for clock shader power of the 8800 GTS. At the same time, NVIDIA has increased the ratio of Texture address units to SPs from 1:4 to 1:2. We also see a 1:1 ratio of texture address and filter units. These changes prompted NVIDIA to further optimize their scheduling algorithms.

The combination of greater resource availability and improved scheduling allow for increased efficiency. In other words, clock for clock, G84 SPs are more efficient than G80 SPs. This makes it harder to compare performance based on specifications. Apparently stencil culling performance has also been improved, which should help boost algorithms like the Doom 3 engine's shadowing technique. NVIDIA didn't give us any detail on how stencil culling performance was improved, but indicated that this, among other things, was also tweaked with the new hardware.

Top this off with the fact that G84 has also been enhanced for higher clock speeds than G80 and we can expect much more work to be done by each SP per second than on 8800 hardware. Exactly how much is something we don't have an easy way of measuring as changes in efficiency will vary by the algorithms running on the hardware as well.'

Source - AnandTech's review - http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2970&p=2

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'As for the 8600, right out of the gate, 32 SPs mean one third the clock for clock shader power of the 8800 GTS. At the same time, NVIDIA has increased the ratio of Texture address units to SPs from 1:4 to 1:2. We also see a 1:1 ratio of texture address and filter units. These changes prompted NVIDIA to further optimize their scheduling algorithms.

The combination of greater resource availability and improved scheduling allow for increased efficiency. In other words, clock for clock, G84 SPs are more efficient than G80 SPs. This makes it harder to compare performance based on specifications. Apparently stencil culling performance has also been improved, which should help boost algorithms like the Doom 3 engine's shadowing technique. NVIDIA didn't give us any detail on how stencil culling performance was improved, but indicated that this, among other things, was also tweaked with the new hardware.

Top this off with the fact that G84 has also been enhanced for higher clock speeds than G80 and we can expect much more work to be done by each SP per second than on 8800 hardware. Exactly how much is something we don't have an easy way of measuring as changes in efficiency will vary by the algorithms running on the hardware as well.'

Source - AnandTech's review - http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2970&p=2

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0_0 ... oh...

<-- Pwned by a new member X(

Perkam

perkam, don't say that. I didn't post that for you to be 'Pwned', it's just to show that one cannot compare the G80's SP with those inside the G86/84s (I also thought there wouldn't be a difference, at first).

Think outside the box.


Sorry for the off-topic everyone.

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perkam, don't say that. I didn't post that for you to be 'Pwned', it's just to show that one cannot compare the G80's SP with those inside the G86/84s (I also thought there wouldn't be a difference, at first).

Think outside the box.


Sorry for the off-topic everyone.

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It's all taken in good humour no worries :)

Perkam

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0_0 ... oh...

<-- Pwned by a new member X(

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TOTALLY :woot: :p: :D

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TOTALLY :woot: :p: :D

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lol...ok the ot posts stop here...

Perkam

Legion Hardware: 7600GT vs. 8600GT ... "The 8600GT is a joke."

http://legionhardware.com/document.php?id=637

http://www.penstarsys.com/reviews/vi...sp3/index.html
http://www.nvnews.net/reviews/msi_ge...ts/index.shtml
http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?o...tid=299&page=1

edit: Overclocked "joke"

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/453

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/455
http://www.insidehw.com/content/view/99/9/
http://www.mvktech.net/content/view/3617/39/

Am I the only one reading these? :D

http://hardwarelogic.com/news/61/ART...007-06-04.html

Yes.

CLOSED

Perkam