Another review for your reading pleasure. Vista launched two weeks ago, and DirectX 10 came along with it?though no DirectX 10 games are available yet. Nvidia has had DX10-capable graphics cards on the market since November's release of the GeForce 8800 GTX, which was quickly followed up by the GeForce 8800 GTS. Now, while ATI still doesn't have its first DX10 card on the market, Nvidia is shipping its third?sort of.
This isn't really a new card so much as a new configuration of an existing card. The 320MB GeForce 8800 GTS is just that?a GeForce 8800GTS with 320MB instead of the usual 640MB. There are no differences in clock speeds (though some brands offer overclocked versions), no differences in the number of shader units or configuration of the GPU architecture. It's just half the memory, and this makes the card significantly less expensive. The version we'll review here today is XFX's top-of-the-line XXX edition, overclocked out of the box. It retails for $335, while the standard not-overclocked version sells for about $300. That makes this card about $150 less expensive than the 640MB version, and really, it's not significantly slower in today's games. ExtremeTech has more
This isn't really a new card so much as a new configuration of an existing card. The 320MB GeForce 8800 GTS is just that?a GeForce 8800GTS with 320MB instead of the usual 640MB. There are no differences in clock speeds (though some brands offer overclocked versions), no differences in the number of shader units or configuration of the GPU architecture. It's just half the memory, and this makes the card significantly less expensive. The version we'll review here today is XFX's top-of-the-line XXX edition, overclocked out of the box. It retails for $335, while the standard not-overclocked version sells for about $300. That makes this card about $150 less expensive than the 640MB version, and really, it's not significantly slower in today's games. ExtremeTech has more
