8800GT (G92) reviews thread

Sounds good. I loved my Ti 4200.

 

Everyones wondering now if software such as Rivatuner et al. can unlock that extra cluster to make it even better value for money....

 

If there was ever a game that I was hoping would showcase the R600's shader heavy design, it was Crysis.

At this point ATI just needs to never feed us that BS again..it's been proven bunk over and over.

 

any news on the release on the 9800GTX?

why didn't they release it first like they did in the past with the 6800, 7800 and 8800 series?

 

They don't need too. There's nothing to compete with the 8800U right now. This is why a lack of competition is bad. Expect the same thing from Intel in a year or so if things stay as they are with AMD.

 

AFAIK, that was the same case for G84!?

 

Considering Crysis leans extremely heavily not only on the GPU but on the CPU even a card X had a better shading engine than card Y, the effects aren't going to be hugely pronounced.

Especially when you consider just how texture heavy Crysis is. A major flaw in the R600. There's a TON of foliage. A TON of textures with a lot of transparency. I'm actually more surprised that the 8800 GTX doesn't pull even FARTHER away. However, considering how CPU dependant the game is, I'm really not all that surprised.

Regards,
SB

PS - if you want to see something that showcases the R600's shader capabilities, the UT3 demo with medium textures is a good place to look. I'm still expecting retail with very high textures to bring it more inline with the GTS 640 however.

 

German Review @PCGHW.de
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/?article_id=619124&page=1

Some nice DX10-Tests (Bioshock, Call of Juarez (NOT the integrated stuff), PT Boats, Rightmark 3D v2.0)

We've also got a nice little Q&A in our Forums:
http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/showthread.php?t=4190 (english!)


A small appetizer...

 

The question in my mind is, is G92 the Tesla chip? There are some pretty compelling reasons not to go multi-chip for CUDA, mainly because you don't want SLI and programming to use a multi-chip system is a bit more involved than for a single chip. NVIDIA told us G92 doesn't have double precision, but we don't know if that means "G92 doesn't have double precision" or "G92 has this laser cut and therefore doesn't have double precision, except G92GL won't have this laser cut."

If it's the former, I think G90 still exists. If it's the latter, then I imagine we'll see some G92 GX2 board before too long. At this point, though, I'm seeing the G92 as the G8x version of G71.

 

Is it just me, or is this gpu less inspiring vs G80 than G71 was vs G70? The term that's been in my mind is "The bean counter refresh --only a financial analyst could love it". It saves BOM, it helps drive prices for performance down into a lower, broader strata. . . . .and it leaves my enthusiast heart a cold, barren place.

For awhile the rumbles were they'd at least be bringing the gpgpu love with double-precision this time around, and I could work up some enthusiasm about that at least. Now? Now it seems like they felt they had AMD down enuf to not really try very hard. Well, we remember how well that worked out for the old ATI re the NV4x/R4x generation. I surely want AMD to be competitive at the top again, but not because NV hangs around waiting for them to catch up.

 

I understand... However, what's the advantage of releasing the cheaper 8800GT first?

Couldn't they make more money by releasing the more expensive 9800GTX first?

 

The high-end of the market sells in extremely low volumes compared to the mainstream, so IMHO NV has taken the right approach in releasing the mainstream part first.

 

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I wonder how hot this thing runs with that cooler. Quiet as a mouse though.

 

Honestly, I think you're being a bit harsh. Better performance at a lower price point (especially this particular price point, which is becoming quite a sweet spot these days to my mind) is always a great thing from a consumer point of view. Sure, I could reel off a bunch of 'If only...' statements against it, but none of them could really be considered important to your average enthusiast, at this point in time at least.

In fact, right now my biggest gripe is that this is looking very much like a 'soft launch' here in the UK, with every retail board I've seen only available for pre-order. Not sure if that state of affairs is any different across the pond.

 

I've been under the impression that you'll see boards available by the end of the week.

 

XFX and Gainward cards in stock in Sweden. But we rule, so nothing weird about that.

 

Well, remembering I've had a GTX in my machine for a year already.

Seriously, ask me to vote today and G80 gets "GPU of the Year" for 2007 as well!

I did, and do, admit that driving higher performance to lower price points is always a useful thing to do. It just doesn't excite me, and never has. YMMV.

And what's up with this over at H:

Oy. Naming FUBAR's everywhere I look these days!

 

Yeah, some of the popular UK e-tailors only have stock coming in tomorrow or next week and, as usual, we get special treatment with the price range: $300-400. While not strictly addressing the same market, G92 does offer quite a bit more than previous refreshes such as R360 (9800XT).