8800GT 250MB DDR3 vs 9600GT 512MB DDR3

[gus6464]

Same price almost but which is faster?

8800GT
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814125089

9600GT
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130334

 

[Jax Omen]

9600GT will be faster in all but the most shader-limited operations. Which are very rare.

 

[gus6464]

k thanks ordering that then.

 

[taltamir]

well, there is a beta of physics on cuda... and that means that the more shader power a card has, the more physics acceleration it can do. However that is an underminate time in the future. And even then, the exact value of it is up for debate...

However the ram difference is HUGE. 256MB is simply not enough anymore. Especially in 1680x1050 resolution or above... So the 9600GT is a much better choice.

 

[s44]

nm

 

[gus6464]

Originally posted by: taltamir
well, there is a beta of physics on cuda... and that means that the more shader power a card has, the more physics acceleration it can do. However that is an underminate time in the future. And even then, the exact value of it is up for debate...

However the ram difference is HUGE. 256MB is simply not enough anymore. Especially in 1680x1050 resolution or above... So the 9600GT is a much better choice.

It's funny that you mention the 1680x1050 resolution because that is the exact resolution I run with my 22" LCD. I ordered the 9600GT this afternoon and will be here in the morning because I can't be without a PC this weekend and overnight from newegg was pretty cheap. Newegg rocks btw as they sent me confirmation that the card was shipped 30 mins after placing the order.

 

[Rusin]

Out of curiosity..why E-VGA's card? Palit's card is better and cheaper.

 

[SniperDaws]

Let us know how you get on, i love my 9600GT its lethal.

 

[gus6464]

Originally posted by: Rusin
Out of curiosity..why E-VGA's card? Palit's card is better and cheaper.

Because I have never heard of Palit before and I have owned and used a couple of EVGA cards and motherboards and have worked great. Also EVGA's customer service is top notch so why go with an unknown company just to save a couple of bucks.

 

[Throckmorton]

The resolution doesn't matter much. At 1920x1200 the frame buffer is less than 10mb. It's the stuff that a game needs to put in VRAM that matters.

 

[lyssword]

stay away from 8800gt 256 it's very fast at lower resolution, but can really choke at higher res/AA, even slower than 3850 256mb. At least that's what I've seen in some reviews..
Here 256mb chokes on crysis high textures http://www.legitreviews.com/article/607/8/

 

[BenSkywalker]

Because I have never heard of Palit before

For reasons I'm not sure of, they changed their name from its' original- Gainward.

 

[AzN]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130333

You can always get the 8800gs if you want more SP and might be more future proof over 9600gt.

 

[IL2SturmovikPilot]

Originally posted by: Azn
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130333

You can always get the 8800gs if you want more SP and might be more future proof over 9600gt.

We'll see soon enough,if the 192-bit bus will hurt it or not in future games

Not trying to flame you or bash the 8800GS,its a decent card,but newer games,though they'll be shader hungry,they'll almost certainly also want a good amount of bandwidth.

 

[taltamir]

192bit isn't enough... and the ram is too low... too low compared to the 9600GT.

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: taltamir
192bit isn't enough... and the ram is too low... too low compared to the 9600GT.

http://en.expreview.com/img/20...01/g80vsg9x/g80all.png

Don't be too sure. Other than AA by few fps they are pretty much equivalent. 384mb of vram seems to be the sweet spot for current games out today.

http://www.tweaktown.com/revie...al_thoughts/index.html

I actually thought it would also tend to struggle at our higher resolution tests due to the amount of RAM. The included 384MB seems to be a bit of a sweet spot. If it carried with it only 256MB I think it?s safe to assume that it would have run into trouble at the higher resolution.

 

[AzN]

Originally posted by: IL2SturmovikPilot

Originally posted by: Azn
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16814130333

You can always get the 8800gs if you want more SP and might be more future proof over 9600gt.

We'll see soon enough,if the 192-bit bus will hurt it or not in future games

Not trying to flame you or bash the 8800GS,its a decent card,but newer games,though they'll be shader hungry,they'll almost certainly also want a good amount of bandwidth.

I think that would depend entirely on the game. At 7GB/s less than 9600gt it's not too far off. For $110 after rebate you can't beat the price/performance.

 

[IL2SturmovikPilot]

7GB/s? Not at stock at least.

http://www.gpureview.com/show_...p?card1=551&card2=557#

 

[AzN]

The one I linked is at clocked 650/1900 for $110 AR, good for 45.6 gb/s but they are also rated 1ns ram good for 1000mhz standard can do more when overclocked.

 

[Rusin]

Originally posted by: gus6464

Because I have never heard of Palit before and I have owned and used a couple of EVGA cards and motherboards and have worked great. Also EVGA's customer service is top notch so why go with an unknown company just to save a couple of bucks.

Well Palit is the biggest single customer of Nvidia. They basically own Asia's markets + they have gotten good share of Europe's markets..but yes they are new name at Northern America.

Have you heard of Galaxy, Inno3D, Xpertvision or Gainward? Palit has bought all of them out of the market in last few years.

Palit doesn't use reference design in their cards (Excluding G80-cards) and they have traditionally been much better, cheaper and as reliable as others..or more reliable.

Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
For reasons I'm not sure of, they changed their name from its' original- Gainward.

Actually Gainward didn't change their name. Gainward sold it's graphics department to Palit three years ago. Palit is still using Gainward-brand at Europe.