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8800GT G92, 8800GTS G92, the new masters of DirectX 10 |
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Written by Димитър Динчев a.k.a. Veseliq
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
Page 12 of 12
Page 12 - Conclusion
Some of you, who read the whole review, should have their answer by now. For the majority, who only went through the benchmarks or came straight to the last page, let us summarize the outcome.
GG92 definitely was crucial point for NVIDIA and they didn’t blow it. The new 65nm technology led to integration of some modules into the CPU itself, which on its side made the boards simpler. On the other hand, G92 needs less power, produces less heat and the outcome is less refuse and much, much lower prices for the videocards, based on this GPU. AMD's response in the face of HD3870 is according to us inadequate. On one hand it was late again, on the other AMD promissed "higher 3DMark scores" or in other words - higher performance. More than obvious is that the reality is completely different and besides that AMD/ATI are far from ready with stable Vista x64 drivers and we faced our shares of problems. But lets not delve into Radeons, they will be featured in another review.
The reason to crown GeForce 8800GT G92 and 8800GTS G92 "masters of DirectX 10" are numerous and pretty obvious... Price? The pricing is about 200$ for 8800 GT 512MB G92, which in most of the tests was worthy counterpart to the trice more expensive 8800 Ultra. This makes the 8800GT 512MB G92 mandatory buy for every serious gamer!
The MSI NX 8800GTS 512MB G92 has sufficiently high frequencies to bring down 8800 Ultra on every actually playable resolution and settings. 8800 Ultra with its lower frequency kept its front only in the most severe tests with high resolution and Antialiasing, where the average framerate was below 20 and during more complex scenes and levels it dropped to 5-10 making the gaming experience irritable and unbearable. The only thing that kept its lead in these severe tests was the large and fast memory (384bit 768MB) and the reason was that high resolution textures and merciless settings in modern games highly depend on the memory. These facts and the twice lower price of 8800GTS 512MB GTS compared to 8800 Ultra (339$) easily convinced us to crown in the new DirectX 10 king. If you are a hardcore gamer or enthusiast, probably you already wander whether several months bare-footed and hungry are good price for one (at least) such controller.
Besides the above facts, MSI NX 8800GT OC and MSI NX 8800GTS OC despite their higher price, provide very rich bundles, which themselves cost a lot more, also gives the product somewhat “complete” appearance, beaming with quality, no matter the fact that the controllers are referent. Also if you are not fond of overcloking yourself, these are one of the fastest G92 series controllers found on the market.
We are very grateful to our partners from
Solytrade
for the mountains of test hardware they provided!
Author: Dimitar Dinchev, a.k.a Veseliq
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