Yay, I just bought one off newegg.com.

quote Jimbobjo

Nice review, -1 mark for not labelling both axis on any of your graphs.

Ooooh that's gonna hurt your GPA...

I am wondering if anyone can suggest which may be faster for 1920x1200 w/FSAA and SLI configuration:

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

Dang I just looked on newegg and it was $325... not too bad at all man though thats probably the $100 price difference for the 320mb mem bus lol. Dunno thats a random guess of mine but for real that is a good buy for people who have older X1k or 7 series cards. Another good review Kevin.

I'm still hoping all these reviews are April Fool's jokes. Guess that would have been unveiled by now. The 9800GTX was rumored to be twice the card of an 8800GTX in real world testing. WTF happened to that?

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!!!

quote Tweaker

Dang I just looked on newegg and it was $325... not too bad at all man though thats probably the $100 price difference for the 320mb mem bus lol. Dunno thats a random guess of mine but for real that is a good buy for people who have older X1k or 7 series cards. Another good review Kevin.

Thanks dude.

quote CrankyOldBastard

Garbage, garbage, garbage, this card is no better than the 8800gtx. Nvidia will keep putting out the same card under a different name until ATI comes out with a strong competitor. You can't even say it's a good buy considering NewEgg is selling the 8800GTX for $50 less. And please, stop relying on reviews from this site, the testing methods are less than adequate. This is a superior review .

It's true that the 8800GTX and 9800GTX offer very similar levels of performance. In fact at *really* higher resolutions, you are better off going with the 8800GTX.

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.