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Far Cry

The Far Cry results below show how closely both 8800GTS cards follow in performance patterns.  Note however, that when AA/AF is turned on the 320MB 8800GTS drops dramatically at the 2048x1536 resolution compared to the 640MB edition.

Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

The GTS 320MB is clinging in there at second place in both benches. The GTX XXX keeps a very steady lead over the 320MB, ghosted by its simpler sibling.  You'll also notice the XXX edition of the 8800 GTS is beating the BFG 640MB 8800GTS quite consistently so the faster core and memory speeds are proving to result in a significant impact.  In Splinter Cell the 320MB GTS card appears to have no issues even at the highest resolutions.

One interesting note; when bench testing Far Cry at that ultra high resolution of 2048x1536 with filters on high, the time demo played like a slide show with all cards except for the XFX 8800 GTX XXX. Simply going to show that added memory can help to offload a GPU and boost some frame rates.