Date:
Monday , January 14, 2008
Author:
Brent Justice
Editor:
Kyle Bennett
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Palit GeForce 8800 GT Super+1GB

Palit puts 1GB of GDDR3 memory on a GeForce 8800 GT based video card and we find out how this affects gameplay in Crysis, UT3, and COD4 in both single and an SLI configuration. You guys looking for the perfect hi-res budget card should read up.

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System Test Setup

For evaluation we are using an EVGA 680i SLI based 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 2T. We are using the latest chipset drivers available and the latest BIOS at time of evaluation.

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Video Card Comparison Setup

We are using the absolute latest NVIDIA drivers at the time of evaluation, which is v169.28 which are specifically noted by NVIDIA to use for SLI in Crysis with Crysis patch 1.1.

Our goal today is to find out if 1 GB on a GeForce 8800 GT is really worth it compared to the 512 MB GeForce 8800 GT. We are using two NVIDIA reference GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB video cards for comparison to two Palit GeForce 8800 GT Super+1GB video cards. Both video cards are clocked at exactly the same frequencies, so it is truly a 512MB vs. 1GB test scenario between them. We will find out if 1 GB makes a difference or not in SLI on the 8800 GT.

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 “TR MS” Indicates the use of NVIDIA’s Transparency Multisampling quality setting on GeForce 8 series video cards. CSAA indicates the use of NVIDIA’s CSAA AA mode.