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A steady stream of new video cards has been flowing out over the last little while, but the GeForce 9800 GTX have been perhaps more anticipated than any other product from NVIDIA's ninth generation so far released. The 9800 GTX is one of the fastest cards available in the world right now, and today, we have one in for review, courtesy of Palit.
When the 9800 GTX was unveiled for the first time last week, reviews were mixed. Across forums and hardware reviews, opinions generally fell into one of two camps. The first camp was decidedly unimpressed with the 9800GTX, primarly for its inability to significantly surpass the 8800 GTX in gaming performance and in some technical specifications, such as memory bandwidth. The second camp met the introduction of the 9800GTX more favorably, arguing that the new product stacked up nicely to current cards on the market, offering a solid level of performance for around the $325 price-point.
While the 7800 GTX and 8800 GTX cards from NVIDIA's last two generations introduced new GPU's and significant design changes, this time around, the 9800 GTX bore strong similarities to one other G92-based video card, the 8800 GTS 512MB, which was released back in December. As opposed to being a flagship design of change, the 9800 GTX instead showcases the evolutionary advancements made by NVIDIA over the last year. And while not offering anything too radical, the 9800 GTX nonetheless is powered by one of the most complex GPUs ever made, containing a whopping 754 million transistors, and has a few advantages over the 8800 GTS 512MB that secures the new GTX into a class of its own.
With a high-end card such as this, many are no doubt wondering what a 9800 GTX SLI system would be capable of. So this is something we wanted to take a look at today, comparing a pair of 9800 GTX cards against a 9600 GT, 8800 GT, and 8800 GTS 512MB SLI configurations. How nice would be to come home from work one day and see a pair of these powerful cards sitting in your motherboard?
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I am an ATi fan, but I really hoped to see a card from nVidia that would let us play Crysis with maxed settings.
To me this 9800GTX has a poor value since a 8800 GTS 512 MB has "exactly" the same numbers in games...
You don't even have the guts to put it face to face with a 8800gtx, I think it says a lot!
Anyway I don't see the advantage of playing a game with 225fps instead of 145fps, there's no advantage at all.
For me nVidia with the 9xxx series is a little weak, a 8800gtx is still in the game for many time to come.