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  Nvidia GeForce 8800GT

  Sudeep Naik, Nov 23, 2007 1140 hrs IST

  The most awaited card of the season is here, let's see if it can live up to the hype

  Single slot, Great performance, Competitive pricing.

  Average overclocking performance.

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Page 1 - The Card Page 2 - Specifications Page 3 - Testbench: Benchmarks Page 4 - DX9 Game Benchmarks: F.E.A.R Page 5 - DX9 Game Benchmarks: HL2-Lost Coast Page 6 - DX9 Game Benchmarks: Quake 4 Page 7 - DX9 Game Benchmarks: Serious Sam II Page 8 - DX10 Game Benchmarks: Company of Heroes Page 9 - DX10 Game Benchmarks: Call of Juarez Page 10 - Analysis, Overclocking, Conclusion

This October, the G92 core announced its arrival and has got with it the new 65nm fab process, PCI-e 2.0 support, along with enhancements for Multisampling and Supersampling. We received a sample of the Geforce 8800GT card from Nvidia and put it through a rigorous 7-day regime of benchmarks, games, and some more benchmarks.

G92: A New Beginning

The G92 is the first Nvidia GPU to sport a 65nm fabrication process and is also the first to support the PCI-e 2.0 specification that will give a bandwidth of 8 GB/s (bi-directional) with an X38 motherboard. It promises enhanced graphics using MultiSampling and SuperSampling with integrated PureVideo 2 and claims to supports a resolution of 2560x1600. On the HD-Video front, it has onboard HDMI capability and can decode H.264 HD-Videos, but it doesn't seem to be able to decode VC-1 just yet.

Apart from all the flimflam in the media brochures, here's what's new.

Well, for starters, with the new 65-nm fab for the G92, the die's surface shrinks by around 33% as compared to a G84, but the surface area increases two-fold. It uses 754 million transistors (a lot more than the G80's 681 million). A big chunk of these additional transistors power PureVideo 2. It features 112 stream processors (as opposed to the G80's 128) but the texturing units see a jump from 48 to 56 (thus helping with Multisampling and SuperSampling).

The ultra high resolution 2560x1600 support will be more of use to designers than gamers; atleast for now. Maybe an 8800GT in SLI setup would be appropriate for gaming in that resolution.

Page 1 - The Card Page 2 - Specifications Page 3 - Testbench: Benchmarks Page 4 - DX9 Game Benchmarks: F.E.A.R Page 5 - DX9 Game Benchmarks: HL2-Lost Coast Page 6 - DX9 Game Benchmarks: Quake 4 Page 7 - DX9 Game Benchmarks: Serious Sam II Page 8 - DX10 Game Benchmarks: Company of Heroes Page 9 - DX10 Game Benchmarks: Call of Juarez Page 10 - Analysis, Overclocking, Conclusion

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