9800GT or 8800GT 512 Mb.

[L'enFer]

What's better? Videocard is needed for gaming. If one of these gpus performs better than other in one kind of games and worse in other please let me know.

[L'enFer]

Then why not 8800GTS 640?

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Because g92 is better then g90. Small core revision between those

[L'enFer]

So, 8800GT is my choice?

[stocius]

probably with the price/performance right now. But do your due research as well.

[L'enFer]

Actually, I've Radeon X1950GT 256 Mb and it's enough for me. My friend is going to grab a new PC and he asked me to know what to choose from those cards.

[stocius]

Actually, I've Radeon X1950GT 256 Mb and it's enough for me. My friend is going to grab a new PC and he asked me to know what to choose from those cards.

Yeah that card you have is good enough to play most games on medium or better (maybe). I personally prefer ATi atm becasue of the picture quality, yeah I watch a lot of movies as well as play some games

[L'enFer]

Personally, I play only Quake 3 and Starcraft: Broodwar , but X1950GT was able to run colin mcrae DiRT on my 20" Samsung 206BW.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Personally, I play only Quake 3 and Starcraft: Broodwar , but X1950GT was able to run colin mcrae DiRT on my 20" Samsung 206BW.

You should mention settings...

Just thinking my 1650pro 256mb ran dirt to, at the lowest settings almost

[L'enFer]

Well, I can't say what settings I used as I don't remember them, but I can say they weren't the lowest.

[Marvin_The_Martian]

Well it wasn't really playable ( read = enjoyable ) so maybe I should count it as being able to run it

[L'enFer]

Ok, but let's return to the main topic of the discussion. Should I get 8800GT or 8800GTS? Or 9800GT?

[fcry64]

when did the 9800 gt come out?

[xMrBunglex]

i don't see them for sale yet either. they better hurry because the Radeon 4870 is going to be faster than the 9800 GT. i'm not sure about the 4850 though, which will probably be priced to compete directly with the 98 GT. the 4870 will probably cost around the same as a 9800 GTX.

[systemviper]

I personally would get the 8800GTS 512m "G92"

+1

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

+1

+1 again. I own this card and love it. Plus its quiet w/ the stock fan.

[L'enFer]

Are you really sure, that price difference between a new and an old 8800GTS isn't much? I heard a new one is noticeably more expensive, isn't it? Anyway will the overpayment be worth?

[MikeB12]

for me it would be hands down 88000gts 512 g92...

in fact I've almost pulled the trigger on this one several times in the past couple months.
$195 after mir (Free Witcher PC game)
MSI NX8800GTS 512M OC GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814127325

but my 2900pro is fine, until these newer cards this summer.

[CrazyNutz]

Go with the 8800GTS 512mb (g92). It is the best bang for the buck card, availiable right now. Also It's basicly the same thing as the 9800GTX, minus
3way SLI support.

[L'enFer]

Ok, thanks to all.

[systemviper]

and i think we have a winner......

8800GTS 512m "G92"

[L'enFer]

CandymanCan, thanks for the detailed explanation.

[xMrBunglex]

it isn't quite true, but i suppose it's close enough. the 8800 GTX has the older G80 core, lower clocks, and a wider memory bus.

[Source]

Am looking for one myself, but i read something about a '9900GTS' and '9900GTX' with something like a GT200 core?
Read it here.

Is this bull or are they really coming out around the summer?

Also read here (in dutch);
Something about 200 SP's..
That the 9900GTX should get a 512bit bus and the 9900GTS a 448bit memory bus.
With the 9900GTX 1Gig of memory and the 9900GTX 896MB of memory

But most of the time it's just guessing what they do at that site..
Anyone as some solid info on it?

[L'enFer]

For me there's no necessity to have 1 Gb RAM on gpu...