Official 8600 Series Review Thread

[perkam]

8600-Series info/reviews go here.

Perkam

[flopper]

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

[perkam]

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

[pengizzle]

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

[dinos22]

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

Perkam

why can i NOT access this page

[perkam]

why can i NOT access this page

Fixed.

Perkam

[onethreehill]

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

[turtle]

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

[onethreehill]

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

[perkam]

Ty for links gentlemen.

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

Perkam

[onethreehill]

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

[Tim]

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

[Dennol]

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

[RAMMAN]

anandtech article

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

[onethreehill]

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

[wickedld9]

Legit Reviews article

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

[StGL]

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

[SafeFire]

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

[Marduk_25]

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

[Fr3ak]

Geforce 8800 GTX:
10.255 3DMarks

Geforce 8600 GTS:
5.564 3DMarks

Geforce 8600 GT:
4.608 3DMarks

Geforce 8500 GT:
2.232 3DMarks

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

[tiborrr]

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...

[RAMMAN]

tech report

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

[RAMMAN]

xbit labs

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

[perkam]

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

[Marduk_25]

'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