Vry's Mini 8800gt vs 640mb gts Review

[Pob255]

Thanks for that vrykyl, I was wondering about it all most all of the reviews of the 8800gt compaired it to the 8800gts 320mb and 8800gtx while compleately failing to mention the 8800gts 640mb

Intresting that when clocked to the same speed the increased memory and memory bandwidth of the gts over the gt cannot make up for the lack of streams.

[TooNice]

Furthermore, I'm shocked that Nvidia should resort to these driver code hacks - and hacks is what they are.

Disappointing that they haven't learnt from the mistakes made by their chief competitor ('Quack3.exe'), or the heat they've attracted to themselves ('3dmurk03.exe'). I am sure that people would rather have an option in the game setting to choose whether to sacrifice the water for performance.

[s_kinton]

The latest driver from nvidia specifically fixes the water problem. 169.09 has been out for a few days now and is the driver to use for Crysis.

[vrykyl]

yup, on my stock 8800gts I get roughly 1 fps more than 169.04.....

on a different note, reviews of the NEW 640mb evga 8800gts SSC with 112sp, shows that it DOES have new higher clock speeds - with core and memory clocks just higher than current gtx cards, and a shader clock of 1300mhz..... it seems to be only just better than the gt in some things.... certainly not worth the extra £100.

A pointless card :/