8800GT G92, 8800GTS G92, the new masters of DirectX 10

November last year was crucial for the two graphic card leaders. The NVIDIA's G92 core was expected to provide incredible performance delivered on tempting price. The same applied to RV670, which was to be ATI's "salvation" to return good profit and to gain on NVIDIA at the high-performance market.

Back in November 2007 NVIDIA released GeForce 8800GTS 640MB and 8800GTX and was claimed as the “King of DirectX 10”, because AMD / ATI were far from ready with a response to these cards and definitely lost grounds in the upper class, due to the gamers’ and enthusiasts’ eager need to follow the latest trends in the game industry. Shortly afterwards NVIDIA released a more affordable 320MB 8800 GTS model in February 2007, which gained even more customers and fans and AMD managed to deliver DirectX 10 reply as far as May 2007 with their expensive 2900 XT – full 6 months later.

For some of you this review may seem a bit old. But till the end of December, 8800GT and furthermore 8800GTS were very hard to come by in Bulgaria. We do not mean the price, but the mere fact that these video monsters were very hard to obtain, very few were imported and were snatched the minute they reached the importers’ offices. As a matter of fact, things did not change much – it is not as hard to get GeForce 8800GT or 8800GTS, but the tempting price and high performance raise demand greater than the supply, which not only is an obstacle to go out and buy one, but also keeps the price from falling down any time soon.

Thanks to our partners Solytrade , we got our hands on a wide specter of video cards, with which we can illustrate what the new G92 based 8800GT and 8800GTS are capable of and to compare adequately their price and performance according to other models in the same performance class.