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If you pulled a random person out of a crowd at your local computer hardware store and asked him or her to name the first fast video card that popped into their head, there is a good chance that their responsive would have the letters 'G', 'T', and 'X' in it. The last big GTX, the 8800 GTX, was a radical product that introduced a new unified shader architecture that ushered in a new era of video card performance. When the 8800 GTX came out in November of 2006, it left virtually every other card it faced well behind, trailing in the dust. And since then, not much else has come out that has been far faster. But every reign has to end sometime -- and now, after more than two years, the 9800GTX has touched down at Neoseeker's hardware lab. So, probably many are wondering: will this new GTX bring the same sort of leap forward? XFX is going to help us answer this question.
As you are probably aware, NVIDIA's ninth generation of video cards has only recently appeared. The first ninth-gen'er was the 9600 GT, which had only 64 stream processors, but was able to keep up the pace with the ATI's HD 3870 and NVIDIA's 8800 GT. The second ninth gen card on the scene came two weeks ago, with the 9800 GX2. The 9800 GX2 impressed us here at the lab -- while it was not for everyone with a price tag of over $600, it was a true monster of card, that ripped through games like a Ferrari on fire. Today's 9800 GTX is the third card coming out of generation nine, and it will be retailing for between $300 and $350, placing it one step up from the 8800 GTS 512, and one larger step down the 9800 GX2.
As mentioned in the 9600 GT review, NVIDIA's nine series isn't as innovative as perhaps the eighth series was. The NVIDIA R&D budget seems to have been spent (for now), and this time around its more about optimization and tweaks to the G92 core that first appeared with popular 8800 GT. In many ways, the 9800 GTX does seem much like a faster 8800 GTS 512MB. It has higher clock speeds and 16 more shader processors than the 8800 GTS 512MB, but as you will see in this review, both cards seems closely related.
Does this new GTX have what it takes to get people excited? Let's find out.
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9800GTX or a Palit GeForce 8800 GTS 1GB Sonic
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/683/1/
http://www.palit.biz/main/vgapro.php?id=631
__________________Core___ Shader__Memory___Memory_______Memory
__________________Clock___Clock___ Clock___________________Interface
__________________(MHz)__ (MHz)___(MHz)_________________________
8800 GTS Sonic____730___ 1625?____1050_____1GB GDDR3____256-bit
9800 GTX__________675___ 1688_____1100_____512MB GDDR3__256-bit
This review here from neo mirrors what the one from hardocp says, practically. And they both are saying that the 8800GTX and GTS are practically the same performance as the 9800GTX, sometimes better, sometimes worse, but always within a few fps.
Gay if you ask me.
Come on, tell me it's a joke. TELL ME!!!
Whoa whoa whoa whoa hold up.
What's wrong the graphs? They appear fine to me? What info is missing from the axis? Have you guys ever had that problem with older graphs?
Please let me know. Really concerned. Thanks.
Hey !
My next article is a look at the Palit 9800 GTX, with a focus on SLI performance.
Going to compare 8800 GT sLI, 9600 GT SLI, 9800GTX SLI, and 8800 GTS 512MB SLI.
Should be going up on Monday.
But that doesn't mean the 9800GTX is a bad card.
Many reviews, such as the one linked, trashed this card because it isn't much of a performance jump from the 8800GTX. But in my opinion, that is sort of throwing out the baby with the bath water.
Ya it is confusing that NVIDIA totally mixes stuff up often. If naming conventions were written in stone than the 9800GTX should be $600 and offer twice the level of performance it does.
But if you totally don't look at the names at all, and compare this card to what is available, and for what it offers for $300 - $350, it is a good card. Of course this is all my own opinion -- I can see your point of view, and many reviewers share your point of view, but I don't feel this way.
As for the testing methods, you might be happy to hear I'm going to be switching Crysis to a FRAPS run instead of the built-in bench, which was shown by OCP to be not the best bench. I'd be open to more suggestions on improving testing methods, but as I said before, I can't FRAPS run 6 games and 8 cards at different settings for every review, that's just not reasonable. Although my current system isn't perfect (no system is) the results are not totally unreliable either.
NVIDIA is already hyping up there next generation of cards, so expect that gen to offer the huge jumps.
The 9800 GTX can be considered a 8800 GTX II. In a perfect world it would have been sold as a 8900 GTX.
Nonetheless it isn't a bad card, as I've been saying.
One thing to keep in mind is that when the 8800 GTX came out, it did offer a huge jump in performance, but it also came on the market around the $600 mark, whereas this GTX will be selling for about half that.
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