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We've seen the charts, it's evident that the consumer should ditch all thoughts of getting any current 8800GTS, with a new 'refresh' of the 8800GTS looming in the horizon that is touted to be superior in performance even when compared to it's bigger G80 brothers. With a die shrink using a more refined fabrication process, we can see that Nvidia did make some architectural enhancements to the G92, especially in terms of shader and vertex processing.

Looking at the charts, gamers with monitors under 22 inches will do very well with a single G92 with significant eye candy thrown in, and the G92 also holds up well at 1920x1200, the native resolution of monitors of 27" and below, even beating the GTX in some benchmarks. The question now is, why should anyone pay more for a 8800GTX/Ultra especially when the performance gap is narrowed down till such a stage? Priced at USD$249, it's ridiculous for anyone to spend a good 300bucks more just for a marginal performance difference at maximum resolutions! Not many of us actually play games on a 30incher and switches on AA/AF at the same time. With the current trend on the rise in larger monitors and gaming resolutions breaking the usual 1280x1024 barrier, the 8800GT arrives just in the nick of time to rescue avid gamers and enthusiasts alike from the incoming hail of DirectX10-capable games that are going to flood the market this holiday season - through till next year! The bottom line of the whole 8800GT and 8800GTS refresh is probably to bring enhanced DX10 gaming capabilities to a rapidly evolving gaming crowd - whose games are quickly making the transition into DirectX10. All the DX10 processing power - at an affordable pricepoint. That, we believe is the main purpose of the 8800GT. It's ability to hold up in DX10 games against much tougher & more expensive competitors like the 8800GTX and GTS 640mb will be much appreciated amongst the gaming-hungry but budget conscious majority of hardware enthusiasts out there. We can safely say for its price point, such an ability is unparalleled at the moment.

Alas, the G92s aint flawless. We've tried to run the 8800GT in SLI mode with an EVGA 680i mainboard and the Asus P5N32E-SLI, but was only greeted with a single card in Vista's device manager despite our various attempts to rectify this problem. All users who wishes to buy a couple of 8800GT cards should take note, G92 SLI doesnt seem to be quite working with the 680i chipset in Vista just yet. Nevertheless, we reckon this isn't a major problem and Nvidia should be fixing this in due time, as we've seen SLI benchmarks of the G92s on Nforce 780i floating around the web in recent days.

In time to come, the amount of possibilities unlocked by DirectX10 and even 10.1 will be impossible to gauge. Nvidia is heading in a direction of improving their DX10 support for their lineup of cards - and the 8800GT is truly a gem - one of many more to come.

 

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