nvidia 9600GSO 384meg vs 8800GTS 320meg

[takeru]

i recently had an rma for my video card, and they are sending me a 9600GSO 384meg to replace my 8800GTS 320meg which isn't made anymore. can someone tell me if that's actually a bump up? or did they just downgrade me?

 

[Andrew1990]

It is about equal in terms of performance. The 9600GSO is actually a tad faster but not enough to notice.

I use to own one and it comes in very close to my 9800GT in games that dont require the extra ram. It is a very nice card and I would easily take the card as an exchange.

 

[TC91]

imo the 8800gts is faster, it has more rop's i believe and much more memory bandwidth. Is your rma with evga by any chance?

 

[Andrew1990]

http://www.gpureview.com/show_...hp?card1=563&card2=475

Looking at this, the 8800 has 8 more ROPs but the 9600 has 24 more Texture Units and both maintain the same amount of shaders.


Also, even though it has more memory bandwidth, the 8800GTS 320mb will run out of memory before the Bandwidth is saturated.

 

[takeru]

Originally posted by: TC91
imo the 8800gts is faster, it has more rop's i believe and much more memory bandwidth. Is your rma with evga by any chance?

XFX. according to the previous message on the ticket a tech was supposed to call me to finalize the rma. 10 days pass and i just see another message saying they are shipping back to me now. of course the way they worded it, it looked as if they were sending my broken card back. i called them and the rep said a 9600GSO PVTSDF card is being sent back to me. looking around i can't tell if its SDF4, SDFH, or what now. but just wanted to make sure they aren't sending me a downgraded card. well, not like i have any say anymore. the tech never called me to finalize the rma.

 

[takeru]

did a little searching and so far this is what i gather about the card. the top one i think are the stats, as there are slight variations depending where you look. the bottom one is the card i sent in and replaced.

XFX PV-T960-SDF4/SDFH

GPU Clock: 580 Mhz
Memory Bus: 192
Memory Type: DDR2
Memory Size: 768 MB (or 384?)
Memory Speed: 1000 Mhz
Stream Processors: 96

XFX PV-T80G-GHE4

GPU Clock: 580 Mhz
Memory Bus: 320
Memory Type: DDR3
Memory Size: 320 MB
Memory Speed: 1700 Mhz
Stream Processors: 96

 

[Denithor]

9600GSO will overclock nicely. At least, my three do. Two of em do 702/1620/1900 and the third is just a tad lower. All at stock volts. At that level they're about equal to a stock 9800GT.

 

[Andrew1990]

Originally posted by: takeru
XFX PV-T960-SDF4/SDFH

GPU Clock: 580 Mhz
Memory Bus: 192
Memory Type: DDR2
Memory Size: 768 MB (or 384?)
Memory Speed: 1000 Mhz
Stream Processors: 96

The 384mb Card only comes in GDDR3 Flavor from XFX. The 768mb card is the GDDR2 Version which is a tad slower.

And like the poster above me said, these things overclock nicely.