GeForce 8800 GT has finally arrived and been officially unveiled. The G92 chip is the heart of the new card and it is basically an updated version of the G80 chip found with the GeForce 8800 GTS/GTX, and when shrunk to 65nm the circuit has been tuned to actually be even better than an equivalent 90nm version. G92 actually has 70 million more transistors than the predecessor and these additional transistors are because of the added support for, amongst others, PCI Express 2.0 and second generation PureVideo HD.
Despite the extra transistors and higher core clock frequency, the core is still smaller than the G80, much thanks to the much more efficient 65nm process.
With 112 shader processors working at 1.5GHz and a core clock frequency of 600MHz there is certainly a lot of theoretical performance. It still has a narrower memory bus than GTS and GTX, but with 512MB GDDR3 memory working at 1.8GHz there should still be more than enough bandwidth.
The perhaps most interesting bit about GeForce 8800 GT is that the cards is the new entry model of NVIDIA’s high-end series and will cost around $200, which makes it a lot cheaper than both GeForce 8800 GTS and GTX. Despite the theoretical downsides, the actual performance of NVIDIA’s new card is mighty impressive and in some cases it is even close to outperforming 8800 GTX, which costs twice as much!
Even if we in Scandinavia have been put aside and did not receive even one review sample in time, there are plenty of other reviews and tests with NVIDIA’s new graphics card and by the looks of it, we have a new king of the bang-for-the-buck-hill. We have both 8800 GT and Radeon HD 3850 graphics card on the way so you can count on hearing more about these mid-range cards, but until then we’ve gathered some reviews for you to read.
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