Geforce 6800 vanilla vs the new low to mid range 8000 series cards.

[geekcomputing]

Anyone know how my old 6800 "vanilla" would fair compared to the low and medium range geforce 8 cards?

That would be a cool review.

Thanks,

 

[Skrying]

Since a 6800 vanilla was on average slightly slower than a 7600GT, I would guess it would be even more slower than say a 8600 such card. Not so sure about the lowest end models such as a 8400/8300 or whatever they decide on, however.

 

[Davros]

im sure there will be plenty of benchmarks showing how the 7600gt compares

as a refence a 6800gt is about 10% slower than the 7600gt so its just a case of finding out how a 6800 compares to a 6800gt and work it out from there

 

[Techno+]

i think they would be very much comparable.

it is amazing how high-end gfx cards become low-end in just a short time.

 

[Kocur]

As far as I remember, vanilla 6800 was in the same league as 6600GT (about the half of the standard 7600GT performance). Thus, I would expect it to be 2 to 4 times slower than 8600 GTS, depending on the scenario.

 

[tabs]

vanilla 6800 was in the same league as 6600GT

That's correct, they traded blows depending on the game.

 

[egg]

As far as I remember, vanilla 6800 was in the same league as 6600GT (about the half of the standard 7600GT performance). Thus, I would expect it to be 2 to 4 times slower than 8600 GTS, depending on the scenario.

I agree. Any flavor of 8600 is going to be substantially faster than a 6800 vanilla. An 8500GT would probably be hurt by its memory bandwidth though, and 8400/8300's are only available to OEMs IIRC.

If you're interested in midrange cards, I'd wait for the HD 2600/2400 offerings and see how they compare. The 8600 series has dropped a bit in price, but the performance is still underwhelming compared to how the 6600 and 7600's matched up to their peers.

 

[JHoxley]

I have a 6800 vanilla @ 512mb VRAM in one machine and an 8800 GTS @ 640mb in my other machine. They are uncomparable in the sense that the 6800 is passable but the 8800 is just, simply, fast :smile:

But then again, I'm a developer and I derive enjoyment from torturing GPU's

Cheers,
Jack

 

[Zaphod]

That's correct, they traded blows depending on the game.

You're confusing the 'vanilla' 6800 with the 6800LE. Due to its lower texture fillrate and vertex througput, the LE often fell short of a 6600GT in less than bandwidth limited situations. The standard 6800 had almost twice the pixel/AA/Z fill rate, 30% more bandwidth, and the 4 extra pipes plus an extra vertex shader (over the LE) made up for the deficiencies of its neutered brother compared to the 6600GT.

The speed of a 6600GT vs. 'vanilla' 6800 ranged from 'almost as fast' to '60% as fast' depending on the situation.

 

[MipMap]

just dumped my vanilla 6800 for an 8800 GTS - and I'll never look back! If you check here you can at least compare a 6800 GT against the 8800 series cards:
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html
Subjectively I would say that the increase in performance I notice is very similar to the results you see there...