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:: PC Perspective . Graphics Card . XFX GeForce 8800 GT 256MB Graphics Card Review . The 256MB 8800 GT Shakes the Lineup
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The 256MB 8800 GT Shakes the LineupIntroduction
Previous 8800 GT 512MB Reference Specs
New 8800 GT 256MB Reference Specs These two slides show the changes in the new card in more detail with the new 256MB model on the bottom. They have the same number of stream processors as well as the same core and shader clock speeds. The memory system is still a 256-bit memory bus, though the new 256MB model obviously has half the memory and a range of frequencies from 700 MHz to 900 MHz depending on the board vendors' preferences. The speed of the memory will also affect the price of the card as you can get 800 MHz modules much cheaper than 900 MHz, etc.
There is another change that came with the new 256MB 8800 GT card: a new cooler. It's still a single-slot cooler and looks nearly the same, but the card has a bigger fan and a new speed-up table in the BIOS that affects when the fan actually turns on to higher speeds. We'll look at that more on the next page, as it is pretty interesting to see what kind of performance changes that offers in terms of temperatures. Current Competitions NVIDIA's 8800 GT 256MB card was released and pushed as the competition to AMD's Radeon HD 3850 graphics card, a new 55nm part that got a lot of attention for being a great option for a sub-$200 GPU. NVIDIA was hoping to see the prices of the 8800 GT 256MB cards to be at $199 or so, but let's see how it panned out:
Next Page - XFX 8800 GT 256MB Alpha Dog Edition
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