nVIDIA 8700GT poll

Vote on the PCI-Express nVIDIA GeForce 8700M GT at 512MB

 

Umm, point of this thread? The 8700 is really new...is it even available yet?

 

its the best dx10 out there and the only card that outperforms it if the 7950gtx, but that may change with new drivers and such

 

well, thats good that its new, yes its available in the Sager NP2090 on powernotebooks.com

 

i would steer clear of the 8700m gt if your purpose is to play games on a 17" notebook.

 

For notebooks,it's one of the best in my opinion.

Although don't expect any extreme settings at your games.

 

For a 17" gaming notebook, the Go 7950 GTX would be a better choice.

 

i dont see it anywhere on powernotebooks, that'd be a 512mb 8600GT, not 8700

 

thats because the 8700m gt is only available for 17"+ notebooks.

at that size, there are better options.

 

For a performance card it seems to be pretty decent. Though at higher resolutions where high-end cards such as the 7950 shine, it'll struggle due to the 128bit bus.

regards,

 

the problem is, its not a "thin performance" card.

its a "high end" card that only belongs in 17" notebooks. which means it is going to be running high resolutions (1680x1050 minimum, maybe 1920x1200) and competing against 7950gtx's and the like.

thats not good news for the 8700m.

 

Pointless less withour real in game performance tests... all speculation

 

uh there are tests

look for them

there is this thread where it compared 8700gt against 7950gtx and it did worse in every category

EDIT:


here it is:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=138414&highlight=8700+7950

as you will see, the 8700gt scales worse and worse as the resolution goes up

no driver updates will change the fact it has 128 bit bus and thus will perform craptacular at 1900x1200

 

agreed.

avoid the 8700m gt (in high res notebooks 1680x1050+) because that bus thing that everyone overhypes actually starts to matter at high resolutions.

 

8700M is a desktop 8600 GT

 

8700M GT's are currently offered in Toshiba's X205 series of notebooks in both 256mb and 512mb forms.

 

true. thing is, its a 17" laptop. at that price point and size, you might as well get a higher resolution screen and a faster graphics card.

but at least you can get an 8700m gt matched with a 1440x900 screen, even if it is 17"...

 

of course it would get r*ped by a 7950gtx, its not supposed 2 compete against it, its supopsed 2 replace the 7700, id say thats pretty frigin good for half the bus

 

no

newer generation cards are not supposed to compete against the same model as the older generation (aka, you don't compare 7700 vs 8700)


it is EXPECTED that the newer generation mainstream card perform the same as last gen high end card (aka 7600 = 6800)

but the 8 series has not met that expectation and (7900gs>8600 at high res)

 

thts how it works out, but i do not think nvidia intends it to be that way