anybody running 8800gt 512's in sli

[Tempered81]

tomshardware guide for best graphics cards of july 2008 recommended for the 500 dollar price range for pci-e to run 2x 8800gt in sli

LOL. how can they recommend 2 of the same card for their graphics card price comparison!? i think its the first time its been done, so im wondering what is SLI performance like on these cards? Does anyone have that setup?

 

[angry hampster]

There's no reason for them to recommend an 8800GTX or an 8800Ultra. It's an old chipset that will be replaced in the next month or so. Also, I'm not seeing any July 2008 comparisons

 

[JPB]

Toms Hardware SLI benchmarks

 

[lavaheadache]

I have 2 BFG 8800 gt's. I'm fairly impressed. I upgraded from an 8800 GTX. About the only thing i have beef with is Crysis and thats not either cards fault but merely the sucky sli support in the game.

 

[Comdrpopnfresh]

I'd say it's quite imaginary- just like my system containing them! But seriously, I'd like see these put to some work, but no sure if I'd want the single or dual- slot ones....

 

[s1d3way]

i'd like to see this setup being benchmarked on a 750i or 780i board. i sworn to myself i'd never pick up a 680i board ever again.

 

[McCartney]

Originally posted by: angry hampster
There's no reason for them to recommend an 8800GTX or an 8800Ultra. It's an old chipset that will be replaced in the next month or so. Also, I'm not seeing any July 2008 comparisons

Old Chipset? Please don't taint our boards with poor explanations.
G92 isn't a "new chipset", it's a new "fabrication process" that is only a die shrink. Yes there is no reason to recommend an 8800 GTX, but that's because it's finally an End of Life product and is a G80 fabricated die as opposed to the newer 8800 GTS' and 8800GT 45nm "die shrunk" G92.

Sorry I don't like it when people try to sound smart but they're on the boards for not a long time at all, a chipset isn't on a video card, it's a GPU. Chipsets are dominant-descriptor in motherboards.

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Originally posted by: McCartney

Originally posted by: angry hampster
There's no reason for them to recommend an 8800GTX or an 8800Ultra. It's an old chipset that will be replaced in the next month or so. Also, I'm not seeing any July 2008 comparisons

Sorry I don't like it when people try to sound smart but they're on the boards for not a long time at all, a chipset isn't on a video card, it's a GPU. Chipsets are dominant-descriptor in motherboards.

You're not exatly an "Old Timer" yourself...

 

[angry hampster]

Originally posted by: McCartney


Old Chipset? Please don't taint our boards with poor explanations.
G92 isn't a "new chipset", it's a new "fabrication process" that is only a die shrink. Yes there is no reason to recommend an 8800 GTX, but that's because it's finally an End of Life product and is a G80 fabricated die as opposed to the newer 8800 GTS' and 8800GT 45nm "die shrunk" G92.

Sorry I don't like it when people try to sound smart but they're on the boards for not a long time at all, a chipset isn't on a video card, it's a GPU. Chipsets are dominant-descriptor in motherboards.

Sorry for improper terminology. You just said the same damn thing though :laugh:

 

[McCartney]

You're right, but it's like Physics... You don't want to start saying acceleration is fast-- That's just wrong

 

[Tempered81]

hahah! oops *january*
and i think g92 is 65nm, not 45nm, right?

so lava, you like the 8800gt sli in everything except crysis? yeah i agree crysis needs better multi-gpu support

are there any games that give diminishing returns? and i would assume that 8800gt512 in sli is faster than an 8800 gtx or ultra

 

[McCartney]

No sir Jared they're not. Actually the dated g80s (8800GTX) are still the fastest due to their ram. The clocks may be better on the GTS but they're not outperforming the GTXs as far as I saw.
Sorry for the bad note on the fabrication processes, I got intel's and nvidia's confused!

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
hahah! oops *january*
and i think g92 is 65nm, not 45nm, right?

so lava, you like the 8800gt sli in everything except crysis? yeah i agree crysis needs better multi-gpu support

are there any games that give diminishing returns? and i would assume that 8800gt512 in sli is faster than an 8800 gtx or ultra

I imagine that statement would be true for the vast majority of cases. However, I know there are some games that really don't do well on G92 for some reason. Colin McRae DiRT with AA/AF comes to mind. The single card performance on that game for G92 is so poor compared to G80 that I doubt that even two G92s would beat a single GTX or Ultra.

 

[lavaheadache]

Every thing I have tried so far the sli'ed gt's are considerably faster than my previous stock clocked GTX. Even in Crysis the Sli'ed GT's are very quick but there are a few instances that sli is noticeably slower than a single GT

 

[Tempered81]

hey nitro, in that colin mcrae link, the 8800gt is less than 3 fps slower than a gtx.

??

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: jaredpace
hey nitro, in that colin mcrae link, the 8800gt is less than 3 fps slower than a gtx.

??

Not at 1600x1200 4xAA/16xAF it's not... More like 24.7 vs. 4.5...

All the DiRT benchmarks with 4xAA/16xA show the GT lagging behind the GTX. Say the GT is only 30% behind, I could see it possibly making up that difference by adding a second card in SLI, but it's not going to catch a single GTX at 1600x1200 4xAA/16xAF.

notice in my original post, I said:

Colin McRae DiRT with AA/AF comes to mind.