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Sparkle 8800GTS 512MB Review: G92 Madness Continues

Videocards/VGA Reviews by geoffrey @ 2008-01-28

The G92 based Geforce 8800GT was a very exciting product, unfortunately NVIDIA was short of supply and lower priced ATI HD3850 & HD3870 gained a lot of popularity this way. The higher-end market still remained untouched; to fill up this gap NVIDIA came up with a second wave of 8800GTS video cards. With the GT in mind, could we be dealing with yet another great NVIDIA product? We find out.

Test setup & Benchmark methodology

Test setup

Geoffreys' Test Setup



CPU	Intel E6600 @ 3GHz
Cooling	Zalman 9700 LED
Mainboard	Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI
Memory	2x1Gb TEAMGROUP Xtreem 800MHz 4-4-4-10-35-4-10-10-10-2T
Graphics	Club3D HD3870 512MB Sparkle 8800GTS 320MB XFX Fatal1ty 8800GTS 320MB Sparkle 8800GT 512MB Sparkle 8800GTS 512MB
Other	FSP Epsilon 900 PSU Maxtor 80Gb PATA HDD Seagate 200GB SATA HDD Antec Nine Hundred housing 20" Dell UltraSharp 2007FP TFT monitor

The Intel E6600 was being overclocked to 3GHz by changing the FSB from 266MHz to 333MHz and by keeping the multiplier at default (9). This way the CPU would score on par with the Intel E6850 based on the popular G0 stepping.

Teamgroup's pair of 1Gb DDR2 sticks were clocked to default settings via the NVIDIA 650i chipset.

ForceWare 163.71 drivers, ForceWare 169.21 drivers for 8800GTS 512MB

Catalyst 7.11

While Windows Vista is now officially launched, we decided to test with a mature Windows OS (XP SP2).

Benchmark methodology

The game benchmarks were completed with the Club3D HD3870 512MB, the Sparkle GeForce 8800GTS 320MB, the XFX Fatal1ty Geforce 8800GTS 320MB, the Sparkle 8800GT 512MB and the Sparkle 8800GTS 512MB at stock speeds. All tests were done with a 20” LCD monitor with a maximum resolution of 1600*1200, where 4AA and 16AF offered the best in-game graphics we found that AA disabled didn't decrease the eye-candy that much while the frame rate now actually become more acceptable for the 8800GTS. The in-game settings were always maxed out.

With our following performance charts you will be informed at all time at what IQ settings were being used. FRAPS was used to measure the FPS during repeated manual run-troughs of a certain part of the games tested, the minimum, maximum and average values were recorded.

Colin McRae DIRT

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

The Elder Scrolls Oblivion

Call of Duty 4

Unreal Tournament 2007

Futuremark 3DMark Series

Comment from Massman @ 2008/01/29

Excellent review, Geoffrey

Comment from Subwoofer @ 2008/01/30

niceeeee

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