Date:
Sunday , October 28, 2007
Author:
Brent Justice
Editor:
Kyle Bennett
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NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT

The new GeForce 8800 GT gives the GeForce 8800 GTS and 2900 XT a run for the money. We put them to the test, along with the 8800 GTX and Ultra, using the Crysis and UT3 Demos. Did we mention MSRP is $200 to $249?

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System Test Setup

For evaluation we are using an EVGA NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI motherboard. We are using an Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 2.93 GHz processor and 2GB of Corsair XMS2 Dominator CM2X1024-8888C4D at 4-4-4-12 1T. We are using the latest chipset drivers available and the latest BIOS at time of evaluation.

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Video Card Comparison Setup

For this comparison we are using stock, default clock speeds on all video cards. So keep in mind that factory overclocked video cards may show slightly higher performance than what you see here. This was done to give everyone a fair showing and see how the GPUs will scale. With the 320 MB and 640 MB 8800 GTS having the same clock speeds we can see how RAM capacity affects these games as well. We are using Windows Vista Ultimate x64 throughout.

For NVIDIA GeForce 8 series video cards we are using the latest provided drivers from NVIDIA. ForceWare 167.37 was provided and we used that in Unreal Tournament 3 demo. Upon the release of the Crysis demo NVIDIA provided us with ForceWare 169.01 which was used for that game. Catalyst 7.10 was used on the Radeon HD 2900 XT.

Please be aware we test our video cards a bit differently from what is the norm. We concentrate on examining the real-world gameplay that each video card provides. The Highest Playable section shows the best Image Quality delivered at a playable frame rate.

In our tables and graphs in this evaluation the abbreviation “TRMS” Indicates the use of NVIDIA’s Transparency Multisampling quality setting on GeForce 8 series video cards.