8800GT (G92) reviews thread

Well, from my experience, "WiC" needs a powerful multi-core CPU in addition to a good GPU setup.
So maybe it's got something to do with it.
Though, even with crappy 169.xx drivers it seems to be holding up very nicely.

 

Oh .. didn't know that. Haven't even bothered with WiC myself so.

US

 

btw.we now understand why G92 based graphic for the laptop called 8800m GTX.

 

Some pretty impressive numbers.

Buying the 8800GT seems like a no brainer to me.

I doubt we'll see more bang for the pound for a good six months.

 

Depends on how the RV670 series works now I guess. Either way though, this makes me wonder just how powerful the next high en will be. Should be amazing

 

I'm more concerned with when it arrives than how powerful it is. I'm tempted to trade in my GTS for the GT but it doesn't seem worth the hassle for the games I'll be playing for the next few months.

 

Elite Bastards
http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=482&Itemid=27

 

If you're going to take the responsiblity for creating a thread such as this, then you are also responsible for tracking all new reviews that show up across the web and updating the first post in the thread with them in a timely fashion.

Or else.

 

best of the early reviews!



yes 56 TFU AND TAU.

 

Horrors!

Edit: LOL, that was fast. I bow before our all-powerful forum overlords.

 

hahahha .. Geo, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Anyways. I think the RV670 is gonna struggle against this card.

US

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/29/geforce_8800_gt/

 

Real suprising noise level...

edit:
Another suprise!

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/29/geforce_8800_gt/page3.html

Something equal to ATi's EATM or something advanced?

edit2:
And a bad "suprise":


... 88GT/G92 is still affected by the bug in GF8's memory-managment.

 

It's ok having a cheap processor but that hsf cooler looks just a bit too cheap to go with it, never mind that is an easy fix and presumably some people will bring out orb circular coolers also.

etailers will be downsizing their 8800GTS buying, you have to imagine, considering what the 8800GT brings to the table at that price.

Looks like a bit of a price war is about to break out in 55/65nm land.

 

ExpreView review up ...
http://topic.expreview.com/2007-10-23/1193114539d6255.html

 

Its really not like ATI's EATM in a sense that it alters the LoD. Its just more accurate and leaves less artifacts and tends to look more supersampling like.

Chris

 

http://techreport.com/articles.x/13479

 

http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3140

 

Just to let folks know that B3D won't have anything substantial up for a few days. NVIDIA scheduling for this product being what it is means I've had less than half a day to analyse it so far, so there's not much I can do for today.

So we'll flesh things out soon after I've spent more time with it. Not knocking the guys that got boards nearly a week ago before flying out to editor's day, but I could have done with the same if anyone from NVIDIA is listening. Heck only knows what the policy was there. Heck only knows (and maybe Heck will let you all know at some point, I'll ask him what he wants to say) why the launch was pulled in for today, too.

Arun and Tim know some extras which they'll talk about in here/the rumours thread now, and we have colleagues doing games/extra testing that we'll poke you at in a news post later.

Architecture and GPU Musings

* Very similar instruction issue rates compared to G8x products, depending on what you're measuring and comparing to. So no major cluster or SFU changes compared to older chips that I can tell as yet. Not finished there though.
* No double precision in hardware it seems. Ergo, no DP in 2007 for NVIDIA, one assumes.
* Minor scheduler/load balancing changes to favour certain executing conditions.
* 8 TA and 8 TF per cluster, with some odd results as you've already been pushing around in this thread.
* C/Z compression improvements at certain settings. Explains some of the perf versus GTS you might have seen.
* It's an 8 cluster GPU or I'll eat your hat, my hat, and the hat's hat.
* 256-bit, 16 ROPs, same Z-only rate as G8x.
* 600/1500/900 is pretty much very conservative in all areas.
* 17.5x18mm @ 734Mt @ 65nm.
* Maybe L1 is bigger. Maybe.
* PCIe Gen2. But maybe not the full spec, still figuring that one out.

8800 GT Board Thoughts

* NVIDIA thermal solution engineers need to take off the earmuffs and nuke the wax buildup. I hate saying that.
* Fast with games at 1080p and IQ upper pills popped, despite the below.

Random Extras

* 169.01 mostly sucks.
* Which is kind of funny because it has 69 in the number. I laughed anyway.

Sorry I don't have much more for today, just haven't had the time spent with it for a full analysis. Only got back from the event yesterday morning.