EVGA STEPUP: 8800GTS 320MB to 8800GT 512mb or 8800gts 512mb?

[TriggerHappy101]

I have like 1 week left on my step-up program.
I can either trade up to the 8800gt 512mb for $270 (Actually FREE because my 8800gts 320mb card I have now I paid $284 for it.)
http://www.evga.com/products/m...2-P3-N801-AR&family=19
600 MHz GPU
Memory = 1800 MHz
(+$6.34 shipping)

Or

I can pay an extra $76 dollars (+6.34 shipping) for the GeForce 8800GTS 512MB
670 MHz GPU
1940 MHz (effective)

I have a quad core @ 3.3GHz and 4GB of RAM.


What do you suggest? Is it worth the extra $82 bucks?

 

[JPB]

If it were me, Id keep the extra money, and just step up to the 8800GT.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Originally posted by: JPB
If it were me, Id keep the extra money, and just step up to the 8800GT.

I agree

 

[TriggerHappy101]

Remember its gonna cost about $10-$15 to ship in my current video card.

 

[recoiledsnake]

Since you're going to be stuck(no 2nd step up) with that card for a while, I recommend the GTS since it might give you the required edge sometime in the future.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Don't see 80 bucks worth of performance increase in the GTS.

 

[brencat]

Keep the extra money. Go 8800GT

 

[customcoms]

The GTS offers very little tangible benefit over the GT (for purposes of this discussion we will completely ignore the old GTS series, by GTS I mean G92 gts)-at stock clocks, the GTS gives you an extra 5fps in demanding titles such as Crysis at demanding resolutions like 1920x1200. At 1680x1050, the difference can be even smaller. Bump the core/shader/memory clocks on the GT up to GTS levels and you get virtually identical performance. The GTS in no way warrants the extra money over the GT imo. I might just be an overzealous 8800GT owner (step-up'd from a 320mb GTS 2 weeks ago) trying to justify my decision to the whole world, but the benchmarks don't lie. For reference, my eVGA Stock clocked 8800GT with 74% fan speed is sitting at 675 core/1674 shaders/950 memory perfectly stable. Better cooling and/or more voltage will bring this card up well past stock 8800GTS levels.

 

[xgsound]

Techreport has an article about this exact topic that goes in depth comparing the 8800gt 512 to the 8800gts 512 and their competition at http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/13772/1 .

They conclude that the MSI stock overclocked 8800gt (675 Mhz) is very close in performance to the 8800gts which is only worth the extra $ for the 2 slot cooler. I got the EVGA at 650 Mhz and I'm happy.


Jim

 

[kylebisme]

Originally posted by: customcoms
The GTS offers very little tangible benefit over the GT (for purposes of this discussion we will completely ignore the old GTS series, by GTS I mean G92 gts)-at stock clocks, the GTS gives you an extra 5fps in demanding titles such as Crysis at demanding resolutions like 1920x1200.

5fps at that resolution in Crysis is huge, where have you seen results like that? Regardless, to get anything close to those results would require running the cards on a beast of a system.

 

[Syntax Error]

Originally posted by: recoiledsnake
Since you're going to be stuck(no 2nd step up) with that card for a while, I recommend the GTS since it might give you the required edge sometime in the future.

What "edge"?

 

[programmer]

2 slot cooler, ftw.

 

[JACKDRUID]

if you really want a dualslot cooler, then go for gts, else gt would do the job just fine.

 

[jeffw2767602]

Save your money and get the GT. It is only 8 to 10 percent behind the GTS and you can usually OC the stock EVGA GTs to around 700/1782/2000. I just got mine on monday and I am pleasantly surprised at how cool it runs as well. It maxes out at around 68C with the fan at 50% (inaudible over my 4 120mm Tri Cools).