Benchmarks for Geforce 8600 GTS & EVGA's 8600 GT SC DX10 cards.

For those interested http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2114756,00.asp

 

awww that is rather unfortunate, I was looking forward to the 8600GTS but I guess it'll be going with a X1900Pro/7950GT unless the price of the 8600GTS drops

 

The 8600GTS is disappointing in that it is generally more expensive than the X1950Pro yet fails to outperform it if at all. nVidia just cut back too much by going with only 32 stream processors and a 128-bit memory bus. Perhaps newer drivers can help, but I think ATI is going to have a pretty easy time when they finally launch the X2600.

 

Pretty price/performance ineffective considering the x1950pro is cheaper and performs better. Even the 7900gs can be found for $130 now.

But you gotta remember the x1600xt/7600gt came out at the same price and dropped by 50% in like one month.

Anyone notice how even though there is more memory in dx10 cards it still tends to take a bigger performance hit than low memory dx9 cards at higher resolutions (see 8800gts 640mb vs 8800gts 320mb in BF:2 @ 1600x1200 or higher)

 

I was really disappointed to see this, too. nVidia's first mid-range in a long time that doesn't eclipse the previous generation's high end.

Smart money is on buying an eVGA 7900 series and then stepping up in three months to a DX10 part.

 

Let's hope the price on the 8000 series midrange cards drops shortly, which they will once ATI releases their DX10 models.

The only thing that really interested me with the 8600GTS was the new HD video hardware anyway...

Here's another review over at PC Perspective, tested under Vista 64bit.

 

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4902&s=1

VR-Zone actually has a more complete review since they somehow got there hands on a 8500GT, which no one else seems to have. All there cards were factory overclocked and show basically show the 8600GTS losing to the 7950GT, the 8600GT to the 7900GS, and the 8500GT just plain underperforming. I don't know what has change since I thought VR-Zone's earlier benchmarks showed the the 8600GTS doing very well against the 7950GT, but I guess those may have been synthetics. The 8600GTS gives great 3DMark06 scores, it's almost as if the chip was built to run it. I guess it may just be the new drivers being optimized for 3DMark06 first so things will hopefully improve. However, the performance level of the 8600GT is a good reference for what the Go 8600 will look like and it may well have difficulty decidedly outperforming the Go 7900GS.

 

Hmm.. just wat i m afraid of, the 8600 underperforming. Hopefully the go versions is a full port without power reductions. IF ATI out do this with the HD 2600, i m sticking with ATIs...

 

Mobile cards are never as powerful as their desktop counterparts, so I definitely wouldn't be holding out for that.

 

there are some specs out on www.gpureview.com for that aswell as the 8500 series aswell...looks like a hit and miss...working better on some games and not on others...nice find though

im still glad i got my mrx1900 (trying not to regret not waiting for dx10 mobile cards and santa rose) hehe...no regrets...im pretty there are none...