Madshrimps News and interesting articles and howtos from the Web!Articles and Reviews, CPU Coolers, Cases, Motherboards, Videocards and more...Howto and guides on Modding and Optimising your PCFollow Interesting Discussions at our Forums!Find out more About Madshrimps and its crewStatistics - What article/howto is most popular and more!
[M]adness
HWFaq Hardware and Software Frequently Asked Questions - HWFaq
Contests Win Hardware! Join our contests now!
Search
Links
Sponsors
Send News
Video Card Comparison Charts

Intel Core i7 In-Depth Performance Scaling Analysis

Aircooled Heatsink Reviews

35x 120mm Fans Tested

Sponsors
.Priorweb
Arctic Silver
Asus
Caseking
CoolerMaster
Danger Den
Dollarshops
Geeks.com
Gigabyte
MSI
OCZ
PC-Cooling
Scythe
Swiftech
Tones
||-More-||
 
 
Geforce 8800 GTS 320Mb Review - Does 640Mb matter?
Geforce 8800 GTS 320Mb Review - Does 640Mb matter?
With the introduction of the Geforce 8800 GTS NVIDIA made available an affordable high end DX10 video card, now they´ve slashed its memory in half, reduced the price, to make it even better deal. Can the new GTS keep up with its memory-loaded brother? We find out.
Author geoffrey
Editor jmke
Date 2007-02-12
Discuss 6 comment(s)
Print this Article

 
 


 
Madshrimps (c)


Introduction

Near the end of 2006 NVIDIA released the 8800GTX, a high-end 3D rendering monster which bested every other video card out there. As usual, you had to pay a higher price to get the fastest frame per seconds in games, for the more budget minded people NVIDIA added the GTS to the G80 line-up. This slightly degraded video card still offers awesome performance, now NVIDIA is lowering the price of the GTS by cutting the available memory in half, the 320Mb is introduced today, the original GTS comes with double the amount. How does this reduction affect gaming performance? Let’s find out.

This review has been made possible thanks to Sparkle who provided us with a sample of each 8800 GTS version





Madshrimps (c)


Sparkle has been into pc graphics for many years now. As an official NVIDIA partner they also released their version the 8800 back in November 2006. Currently Sparkle has 2 GeForce 8800 products available for everyone out there:

  • GeForce 8800 GTX | 768MB GDDR3 | 384-Bit | PCI-Express 16x
  • GeForce 8800 GTS | 640MB GDDR3 | 320-Bit | PCI-Express 16x

    Madshrimps (c)
    Sparkle GeForce 8800GTS 640Mb


    Today Sparkle adds one more video card to add to that list:

  • GeForce 8800 GTS | 320MB GDDR3 | 320-Bit | PCI-Express 16x

    Madshrimps (c)
    Sparkle GeForce 8800GTS 320Mb


    Both their 8800 GTS cards use the same PCB and heatsink, the only main difference is the amount of memory. While the older GTS comes with 640MB GDDR3, the newest version comes with only half if that. It helps to reduce the price, will it also reduce the performance?

    | Next ->>




    Quick Page Jump:

    More reviews in this category can be found below:

  • Video Card Comparison Charts - Geforce GTS 250 & GTX 285 Added
  • Leadtek Winfast Geforce GT 220 1Gb - A 9500 GT with DX10.1
  • Asus GTX 285 Matrix - Fastest Single GPU Card Out there?
  • Sparkle 9800 GTX+ With Custom PCB and Cooling Review
  • MSI Geforce 9600 GT 1Gb Hybrid Freezer VGA Review
  • Geforce 9500 GT SLI vs Geforce 9600 GT Performance Comparison
  • ATI HD Radeon 4850 vs NVIDIA Geforce 9800 GTX
  • Geforce GTX280 & Radeon HD4870X2 AA Scaling with XP & Vista
  • ATI HD4870X2 vs NVIDIA GTX 280 - High-End VGA Comparison
  • Galaxy and Leadtek 9500 GT Tested and Compared
  •  
     

    Copyright © 2001-2006 Madshrimps / JMkeOC.com, All rights reserved.
    Graphical Design by Dennis Kestelle, Programming by John Meys, Paul Meys and Frederik Colardyn, Overall Site design by John Meys

    All information and graphics contained in Madshrimps are sole property of the Madshrimps crew and may not be reproduced or copied in any manner without written permission from us.

    BTW-BE 0888919678

    ADS by G
     
       
     

    Search Madshrimps
     
     
    Google
    Search Madshrimps:

     
     

    Daily News
     
      Geforce GT 240 gets...
    This one is for Fai...
    EVGA, where did you...
    Try Google's Chome ...
    The French Bench 13...
    Confirmed: R2-D2 Fi...
    Windows SteadyState...
    Cedarview Atom 2011...
    OCZ Plans USB 3.0 b...
    USB 3.0 vs USB 2.0 ...
    Sapphire Radeon HD ...
    CoolerMaster Sileo ...
    Lian Li Armorsuit P...
    OCZ DDR3 PC3-12800 ...
    Amd Athlon 2 X3 435...
    Sapphire Radeon HD ...
    Sapphire Radeon HD ...
    InWin Maelstrom Cas...
    ATI Radeon HD 5970 ...
    Elixir 6 GB 1600 MH...

    Syndicate Madshrimps Daily News with our XML/RSS Feed!

    Receive updates by e-mail

    Read more News...
     
     

    Sponsor Space:
     
     
     
     

    New Content
     
      Articles/Reviews:
    Sunbeamtech Automat...
    Leadtek Geforce GT ...
    Gigabyte TweaKING O...
    Video Card Comparis...
    Cooler Master Lab T...
    Leadtek Winfast Gef...
    SSD + Full Disk Enc...
    GIGABYTE P55-UD3P M...
    Vizo Luxon 3.5Inch ...
    Intel Core i7 CPU W...
    OCZ Behemoth Double...
    P55 Roundup: Gigaby...
    Intel Core i5 750 R...
    MSI MOA 2009 Grand ...
    F1 Overclocking Com...

    Howto and Guides:
    Building a 300W Fan...
    NVIDIA Geforce 8400...
    NVIDIA Geforce 8800...
    Reviving and Volt M...
    Protect the core of...