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| | (Post a comment) » NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS/GT Performance PreviewWith today's introduction of the GeForce 8600 GTS, picking up a shiny new DX10 card has never been easier: the card sells for just $200. See how NVIDIA's latest mainstream GPU compares to previous DX9 cards from AMD and NVIDIA as well as the latest GeForce 8800 GTS card in today's article! |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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 yacoub (7)  Apr 17, 2007 - 10:20 am | Edited on Apr 17, 2007 - 10:21 am
| » The 8600GTS is garbage.
NVidia cut too many stream processors and too much bus bandwidth from it. 32SP and 128-bit bus doesn't cut it when you can spend $30 more to get an 8800GTS 320MB and get three times the SPs and bus bandwidth (96SP, 384-bit bus). The card is shameful. They neutered it too much and it shows that the last gen mid-range cards like the 7900GT and 7950GT can outperform it in most tests, often by significant margins.
The 8600GTS is worth no more than $175. At $250 you can spend $25-30 more to get an 8800GTS which unquestionably outperforms all of the last-gen cards. There's no reason not to do that.
NVidia just handed the mid-range initiative to ATi. Now we'll see if ATi is competent enough to take advantage of that and come out with a superior mid-range product. If they can't even after being given this gift of an opportunity, they're hopeless.» Login to reply to this |
 Stories (312)  Apr 17, 2007 - 09:52 am | Edited on Apr 17, 2007 - 10:24 am
| It depends on price. As long as the cards remain competitive in price and "consumer-level" features, that card will win out. How many computer systems do we see shipping with 8800 cards? So few. Heck, even 7900 or X1950 cards in sub-$2000 systems are rare.
We're in a minority here at FS. We'll be the ones gobbling up these cards, but few people will care outside of us.
On that note, I can't believe I held off on buying a videocard to see how the 8600 series performed.» Login to reply to this  pir8hna (177) Apr 17, 2007 - 10:53 am
| | I know what you mean, I'm so glad I didn't hold off for these. I was planning on waiting when the rumors of an 8600 ultra with 64sp and 512ram with a mid-march release were floating about, but once the 86ultra dropped out of the picture, and the release date was moved to mid april I jumped on a 7900GS. $70 cheaper than the GTS and better performance to boot, especially once overclocked, when it can outperform a stock 7950GT. These cards are a real disappointment from nvidia. I suspect the prices will drop rapidly as nobody in their right mind buys them, but the GTS would have to get down to about $150 to be worthwhile, since it probably won't even keep up in the first gen of DX-10 games, you have to buy it based on it's dx9 performance and it only compares to $150 parts, and doesn't even compare well to those if you increase res or AA since it's neutered with the 128 bit bus, is already clocked near it's limits. Bogus. » Login to reply to this |
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