NVIDIA GeForce 8800GS 768MB First Look

[mascaras]

NVIDIA GeForce 8800GS 768MB First Look

First pictures from Yeston GeForce 8800GS 768MB GDDR3 graphics card. Make sure to check the source link if you want to see more photos.



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[[XC] gomeler]

red PCB on an Nvidia card should be black or green, I don't need to be confused anymore

[Eastcoasthandle]

First they name their cards similarly to what ATI named them and now they use the same coloring scheme

[Helmore]

red PCB on an Nvidia card should be black or green, I don't need to be confused anymore

I agree, I prefer black with green highlights

[wittekakker]

Right, low end rendering performance and +700MB memory space, who wants one? .... anyone?.... you may raise your hands!

[highoctane]

Well maybe for nvidia red pcb means lower performance!

[Cooper]

This is card made by Yeston. NV have nothing to do with pcb color.

[Omastar]

They must have a surplus of crappy 1.1ns Qimonda memory.

[Frank M]

Right, low end rendering performance and +700MB memory space, who wants one? .... anyone?.... you may raise your hands!

Low end? Excuse me, what are you smoking?
Cause I know what this card is smoking, the 8600GTS, nV's current value-
midrange card. If priced right, this may fetch some nice demand.

[wittekakker]

Oh, excuse me, mainstream,... unfortunately that was not the point, the card does not have the performance to use such an high amount of video memory, well... the 700+MB is atleast not worth your cash. Get 320MB (just an example number) and see prices lowering while not loosing in-game performance.

I'm quit smoking, you should try the same

[DeathReborn]

Oh, excuse me, mainstream,... unfortunately that was not the point, the card does not have the performance to use such an high amount of video memory, well... the 700+MB is atleast not worth your cash. Get 320MB (just an example number) and see prices lowering while not loosing in-game performance.

I'm quit smoking, you should try the same :p

Qarl's Texture Pack for Oblivion would love the 768MB card but fall over a fair bit on the 384MB one, unless you get the pack aimed at 256MB cards.

[wittekakker]

but... is the GPU fast enough to use high detail settings while keeping framerate acceptable, and how much influence will the extra RAM really have? I have my doubts

[[XC] gomeler]

Oh, excuse me, mainstream,... unfortunately that was not the point, the card does not have the performance to use such an high amount of video memory, well... the 700+MB is atleast not worth your cash. Get 320MB (just an example number) and see prices lowering while not loosing in-game performance.

I'm quit smoking, you should try the same

So.. because it's a GS you automatically assume the card isn't capable of performing with the big boys? It'll trounce the 8600GTS and I hope to god it's capable of slapping around the 320MB 8800GTS. Price it at $175 and it'll sell like hotcakes. This isn't a 8500GT with 512MB, this is a far more serious card.

[wittekakker]

It would be ridiculous if it would not be faster then 8600GTS, and I'm assuming it might end up quite close to 8800GTS 320MB performance wise. But 768MB... I could see them using 320MB, or heck even 512MB, but no way more is really necessary.

[[XC] gomeler]

Well it's either 384Mbytes or 768Mbytes and we've already seen benchmarks where under 512Mbytes results in performance drops above 1280x1024. Look at the 9600GT results, the 8800GS 384MB looks pretty promising especially when if it's clocked up to match the 8800GT. Guess we just need a comparison between the 384MB and 768MB versions, I imagine we'll see similar results as with the 256MB/512MB 8800GT's with sharp drops above 16x10.

[Polizei]

Whats the deal with a weaker GPU with a ridiculous amount of vRAM? High res at next to no frames?

Doesnt make sense to me.

[hollo]

but... is the GPU fast enough to use high detail settings while keeping framerate acceptable, and how much influence will the extra RAM really have? I have my doubts

+1. the only place i could see this card needing 3/4 of a gigabyte of RAM would be in SLI setups, where you have twice as many GPUs but the video memory duplicated on two cards.

They must have a surplus of crappy 1.1ns Qimonda memory.

or this

[Frank M]

but... is the GPU fast enough to use high detail settings while keeping framerate acceptable, and how much influence will the extra RAM really have? I have my doubts

I'm sure it will be. My 7900GS oc'd on air can do that, but I had to resort to
QTP3-reduced because of the 256MB RAM on the card.

With the 192-bit bus, you either have 384 or 768MB of ram on this card.
This is the bigger model, there's also the smaller 384MB, if you want that.
I think this will also have it's advantages as 512MB seems to be the new
standard, and lower than that is for the low-midrange.

[Garrett]

I'd like to see the 768mb version compared to an Ultra (like I have) and see the real-world differences in games, 3dmark etc...

[Frank M]

Here are some numbers for the 384MB version, but it's only compared to
the 8800GT:
http://en.expreview.com/?p=160

The quick test shows the 8800GT leads about 27% comparing to 8800GS. But their price gap is about 50% in our local market.

The price of 384MB 8800GS and 768MB 8800GS is 1199CNY(165USD) and 1499CNY(204USD). Price is simular to HD 3850, so we can expect a mid-end VGA card war is incoming.

http://en.hardspell.com/doc/showcont.asp?news_id=2159

According to NVIDIA, G92 core 8800GS just aims to the OEM market. But it is said that the AICs have their own plans. GeForce 8800GS 384MB will be $149-179 and it will replace GeForce 8600GTS.
[...]
96 Streaming Processor and 1.43GHz Shader GeForce 8800GS behaved better than GeForce 8600GTS 256MB in all the tests. Its 149$ price is also attractive.

[Kain665]

I wonder what the power consumption is... This seems like the perfect card to replace the 7900gt in my other rig (4200+, 1 gig o' ram). Now if only it had a single slot cooler...

[Rock&Roll]

From my testing with G92 vs G80, the extra memory wont mean d1ck when you get into 1920x1200 or higher resolution. G92 needs memory more bandwidth. In the 384MB and the 768MB, they cut the memory bandwidth even more. I would expect less performance than with the 512 cards.

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[roadie]

The GPU heatsink in the OP looks lethal! Seriously, it seems like it would be dangerous to rummage around in your case with that thing there.

[wittekakker]

With the 192-bit bus, you either have 384 or 768MB of ram on this card.
This is the bigger model, there's also the smaller 384MB, if you want that.
I think this will also have it's advantages as 512MB seems to be the new
standard, and lower than that is for the low-midrange.

Well, there you said it, a 192 bit wide memory bus which results in around 40Gb/s memory bandwidth, the old GTS which is slightly slower in theorie in pure GPU rendering power has over 60GB/s, the GS has nearly 50% less memory bandwith! Again, try to explain my why you would need such an amount of RAM, go for 384MB and save your bucks