Geforce 8600 to score 4500 in 3Dmark 06

[Aberforth]

Any nvidia card below 8800 GTS 640 MB and 8800GTX is going to be disappointing. the 320 MB GTS cannot run Splinter Cell Double Agent Maxed @ 1280X1024.

 

[betasub]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
I've sworn off any cards with a 128-bit memory bus (or lower) - they are just toys.
I have an X850Pro and now an X1950GT. Got rid of my R9200 128-bit, boy was it slow.

I doubt that R9200 would have been any faster with 256-bit memory, the GPU itself is far too slow.

It's only once you get into the top of mid-range (was 6600GT, now 7600GT) that the GPU becomes fast enough to handle higher bandwidth. Depsite being 128-bit, at least these cards have highly clocked DDR3 memory.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Originally posted by: Matt2
I dont know why there is so much buzz about the 8600.

It wont be any different than 6600 vs 6800 and 7600 vs 7800/7900

Because it's a DX10 part?
Because it can do HDR+AA?
Because it'll more than likely have better Image Quality than competing cards?
Because you can have all this for lees than $200? (hopefully)
Gee, I don't know why people want this card.

 

[chizow]

I don't know why people are pinning such high hopes on the 8600 parts. Its been well-known for quite some time that they're going to be badly neutered compared to the 8800GTS and GTX parts.

G80 Roadmap

People knew the 8600 was going to be neutered but were banking on OC'ability with a die shrink, but given the 8600 specs you'd need to be able to hit something like 800-900MHz on the core to get similar performance to an 8800GTS running stock 500MHz. Couple that with the 256MB max on initial spec'd 8600 parts (I'm sure 512MB versions will pop up though) and there's simply no way an 8600 is going to be better than the newly released 320MB GTS from a price: performance perspective.

The most interesting part on that roadmap is the 8900GTS, especially if prices begin to fall shortly after release like the 8800GTS. Full 128 shaders with GDDR4 on a smaller process should be lovely.

 

[Cookie Monster]

That roadmap is fake. There was a similiar one for the R6x0 roadmap, and that was also a fake.

 

[schneiderguy]

Originally posted by: chizow
I don't know why people are pinning such high hopes on the 8600 parts. Its been well-known for quite some time that they're going to be badly neutered compared to the 8800GTS and GTX parts.

its a MIDRANGE card. it's not supposed to compete with the 8800's

 

[ronnn]

Don't think too bad, once you add on the cpu score. Without knowing the cpu, 3dm06 means little. I think the 8600 will sell great to those of us who don't have a top of the line monitor. :beer: