Contrary to popular belief a max OC 640MB GTS was actually slightly better than max OC 8800GT. The 8800GTS G80 had so much OC headroom it could even make the GTX not seem like the deal it looked like in benchmarks. Think of it like a 7850.I had a 8800gts 640mb card. It was a great card but the 8800gt made it irrelevant so quickly lol.
I had a GTS 250 1GB till 2013 which is only slightly faster than 8800GTX and I can assure you that it could keep up with the 360 and then some.the 360 was one year earlier, the one that looked bad was the PS3, released at the same time with a not so amazing Geforce 7.
still, consoles optimization (and lack of on PC hardware, specially old one) is an amazing thing, I don't think the 8800GTX can keep up with the 360 on games released around 2012.
It wasn't just about the performance jump but the IQ jump that we got with the 8800 is often overlooked. Previously anisotropic filtering was a very demanding setting but with the 8800GTX it became a matter of few FPS between no AF and 16xAF. You may not realize it now but lack of AF will make any game look ugly.
Contrary to popular belief a max OC 640MB GTS was actually slightly better than max OC 8800GT. The 8800GTS G80 had so much OC headroom it could even make the GTX not seem like the deal it looked like in benchmarks. Think of it like a 7850.
I had a GTS 250 1GB till 2013 which is only slightly faster than 8800GTX and I can assure you that it could keep up with the 360 and then some.
It was in fact the Core 2 Duo CPU which could not outlast the consoles even though it was supposed to be faster than the 360 CPU. A Core 2 Quad/8800 configuration can outperform a 360 99% of the times. Don't forget that a 360 often ran games at sub 720p at 30FPS so that's not a hard thing to match at all when you actually get down to those performance levels on the PC.
ahhh, the 8800 GTX. What a friggin card! Those sure were the good ole days.
That's because the PC version is a native DX11 game.you are probably right but, something like Crysis 3 on the Xbox 360 is fairly impressive, I don't think the 8800GTX can even run that game
I wonder which card will hit the decade mark first, if any, in terms of "playable" settings with AAA 3D games?
Yeah, Crysis 3 requires DX11.0. I've always thought that was stupid.
I think the last "high-end" games to officially support the 8800GT were Battlefield 4, Dragon Age Inquisition and GTA V.
I think the 8800GTX is probably the first card which was killed by lack of DX compatibility rather than just not having any reasonable performance at all. Although I suppose the GTX 280 holds that crown.on GTA
more or less comparable scene I guess, kind of pointless (not really a match for the test scene, settings, and also the 8800GTX using ivy bridge i5) but still interesting, I think
https://youtu.be/OcnYrSB9xvM?t=2m33s
https://youtu.be/_fbYyMq4cGU?t=34s
considering how terrible the PS3 hardware is (256MB+256MB ram, 128bit geforce "7900"), it's pretty amazing how not so far it looks, but yes, IF crysis 3 was compatible with the 8800GTX it would probably be easily a good bit ahead, like it is on Crysis 2.
I think the 8800GTX is probably the first card which was killed by lack of DX compatibility rather than just not having any reasonable performance at all. Although I suppose the GTX 280 holds that crown.