GeForce 8800 round-up: The best of the best
13th Nov 2006, 23:26 GMT
Posted by Hanners Posted Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:55:31 EST I'm still ploughing through a vast amount of testing, writing and comparisons for our own GeForce 8800 GTX and G80 architectural review here at Elite Bastards - In the meantime, Anandtech have put a whole slew of boards from the likes of BFG, eVGA, MSI, Sparkle, Leadtek, ASUS and XFX to the test. Quote: We've got a total of seven G80 based cards in today's roundup, six of which are GeForce 8800 GTXes and a single 8800 GTS. All seven G80s are clocked at NVIDIA's stock speeds which are 1.35GHz/575MHz/900MHz (shader/core/memory) for the GTX and 1.2GHz/500MHz/800MHz for the GTS. Apparently NVIDIA isn't allowing vendor-overclocked 8800 GTX cards (according to one of our OEM contacts), thus you can expect all 8800s to perform more or less the same at stock speeds. You will see differences however in the cooling solutions implemented by the various manufacturers, which will in turn influence the overclocking capability of these cards. It's worth mentioning that even at stock speeds, these 8800s are fast. Very fast. With the power of these cards and good overclocking we've seen, we expect we'll see a return to vendor sanctioned overclocking with NVIDIA GPUs at some point in the future. But exactly when this will happen is hard to say. All of the cards in this roundup are fully HDCP compliant thanks to NVIDIA's NVIO chip in combination with the optional crypto-ROM key found on each of the boards. HDMI outputs are still not very common on PC graphics cards and thus HDCP is supported over DVI on each card. Coupled with an HDCP compliant monitor, any of these 8800s will be able to play full resolution HD-DVD or Blu-ray movies over a digital connection where HDCP is required. View their round-up in full here .
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