9800 GTX Reviews Thread

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[tuteja1986]

why ain't more review out :!

Did Nvidia forget to tell the media that the NDA was over.

 

[BFG10K]

The 'fud are saying it lifts 14.00 GMT so we have just over an hour to go.

 

[dasracht]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
The 'fud are saying it lifts 14.00 GMT so we have just over an hour to go.

Thanks, that's good information.

 

[Denithor]

No overclocking results? It runs cooler than the 8800GTS so it should OC well. That's really going to be the only way these will sell. Why spend an extra $100 when you can get >90% of the performance at 2/3 of the price?

ADD: Also, so much for the need for 1000W power supplies!

 

[BFG10K]

More reviews added.

 

[dasracht]

Seems odd that PCGH did their reviews at only 1680x1050.

Still, thanks for posting them.

 

[dasracht]

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=732
http://www.rage3d.com/previews/video/nv9800gtx/

 

[error8]

Not much of a card at all. But it will sell like hot dogs because it has the "GTX" thing at the end of the name.

 

[dasracht]

I disagree. It's the fastest single gpu card now, ahead of the gts which its based on by a significant margin in all reviews, and at an attractive price.

There's disadvantages, but all things considered, I think it's a decent card

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/516/1/

 

[BFG10K]

It's the fastest single gpu card now, ahead of the gts which its based on by a significant margin in all reviews, and at an attractive price.

It looks like it's slower than my 8800 Ultra, though admittedly that's been discontinued.

 

[error8]

Originally posted by: BFG10K

It's the fastest single gpu card now, ahead of the gts which its based on by a significant margin in all reviews, and at an attractive price.

It looks like it's slower than my 8800 Ultra, though admittedly that's been discontinued.

Exactly, Nvidia didn't actually managed to make a faster card then the 8800 GTX, the oldie released in 2006!!!!! At least it's a priced right in some way. But it's pretty clear that it should have been named 8900 GTX.
When you hear 9800 GTX you think at a card that it should be twice as fast as the 8800 GTX.

 

[dasracht]

I agree about the naming convention being completely ridiculous.
Still, I care way more about price for performance than about the name of the card.

 

[dasracht]

http://www.tomshardware.com/20...0gtx_review/index.html

 

[error8]

Originally posted by: dasracht
I agree about the naming convention being completely ridiculous.
Still, I care way more about price for performance than about the name of the card.

Actually I still find the 8800 GTS price/performance ration better then that of the 9800 GTX.

 

[BFG10K]

From Tom's Hardware:

Surprise!? The effective cooling of the GeForce 9800 GTX' G92 GPU comes at the price of a high noise level. While the fan used is the same one as on the 8800 GTS 512 MB, its rotation speed is much higher - at idle as well as under load. Only the HD 3870 X2 took the booby prize for being noisier under load. But it was even quieter at idle - roughly equivalent to the 8800 GTS - which the 9800 GTX should have matched. In practice, its noise wasn't all that bad at idle, but the fan accelerates very fast as soon as you launch a game, and sometimes even when idling, and the noise level becomes frankly obnoxious.

And what's really funny is that Nvidia actually makes a point of saying that this card is extremely quiet, even during gameplay. The marketing department usually simply keeps its mouth shut about a product's negative points, instead of calling attention to them - especially when the fault is this flagrant.

I love it how they blast vendors over noise issues. I like these guys. :thumbsup:

 

[dasracht]

Originally posted by: error8

Originally posted by: dasracht
I agree about the naming convention being completely ridiculous.
Still, I care way more about price for performance than about the name of the card.

Actually I still find the 8800 GTS price/performance ration better then that of the 9800 GTX.

Yeah, that's reasonable.

 

[ViRGE]

Sigh, a year and a half along and it looks like we've officially gone nowhere. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

And someone needs to be fired for this whole 9-series naming scheme.

Edit: And I really hope one of these sites will do some benchmarking with the same drivers. It's pretty clear that the 174 drivers have some rather big optimizations for a few games

 

[bsix]

Wow Just checked prices for 8800 GTS - was waiting for prices to go down. They went up from 6:00am est this morning. The MSI 8800GTS (G92) was $209 AR this morning and it is now $239. The eVGA 8800GTS was $229 and is now $279. Should have bought yesterday knowing that the 9800GTX was a marketing release only.

PS Holy Crap - even the 8800GT jumped heavily. The MSI was $179 AR and is now $209 and a Palit which was $189 is now $239. Wow.

 

[dasracht]

That's pretty weak that they jumped that much in price, but if it's newegg you're talking about, those cards were on a 'month end sale' so it's more because of that than the new release.

 

[Munky]

What a disappointment. This thing is actually slower than the old ultra, and only marginally faster than the gts-512.

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: munky
What a disappointment. This thing is actually slower than the old ultra, and only marginally faster than the gts-512.

well you had to look at the specs.

nvidia fanboy and focus group in crysis form thought the 9800GTX spec would be :

850mhz gpu g92
2000mhz shader
1200mhz ram
512bit bus/1024mb memory/160shaders

- 65nm process technology at TSMC.
- Over one billion transistors.
- Second Generation Unified Shader Architecture.
- Double precsion support (FP64).
- GPGPU native.
- Over one TeraFLOPS of shader processing power.
- MADD+ADD configuration for the shader untis (2+1 FLOPS=3 FLOPS per ALU)
- Fully Scalar design.
- 512-bit memory interface.
- 1024MB GDDR4 graphics memory.
- DirectX 10.1 support.
- OpenGL 3.0 Support.
- eDRAM die for "FREE 4xAA".
- built in Audio Chip.
- built in tesselation unit (in the graphics core"
- Improved AA and AF quality levels


Hyped it like crazy :!

 

[Keysplayr]

You want to knock off the digs Tuteja? You're never going to change are you?

Back OT. Anyone has any questions about the 9800GTX's, let me know. I can check out/verify or disprove benches out there.

 

[lopri]

How long is this card? I only read the FiringSquad review and they didn't mention the length of the card. Can't tell by the pic because they didn't take a picture of 8800/9800 GTX side by side.