Review: 8800GTX Vs. 8800GTS benches on Intel and AMD

Here is a full Review and Comparision between the Nvidia Top End DX10 Graphic card in the Market. This Review briefs the benchmarks of 8800GTX and 8800GTS when used with the processors from AMD and Intel of different clock speeds. Keep reading for more info.

The Current average Price of Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX 768 MB is around 560$ and the Geforce 8800GTS is around for 300$. 8800GTX is around 70% costlier than the GTS version. 8800GTX does not better than the GTS version unless you have a good processor like the Core 2 Duo E6700 or X6800 processors. It will be better to go for 8800GTS as its very cheap and performs really good instead to put somuch on the Geforce 8800GTX card.

The core clock speed of 8800GTS is 500Mhz which could be superclocked to 575Mhz that is the normal core speed of 8800GTX card and the memory speed is 1600Mhz and can be superclocked to 1700Mhz which is 100Mhz less than the standard 8800GTX. The 8800GTX overclocks to 620Mhz of Core speed and whopping 2000Mhz of Memory. However the clock speed doesn't matter unless you have a great companion processor to utilize its full potential as i mentioned earlier. It is like if you have a normal Pentium D 930 or AMD 64 3800+ or anything that costs 100$ then you need to upgrade to E6600 to unleash the full power of that extreme Geforce 8800GTX card. huh... thats all about words..Lets go on to the Benchmarks.

Here is the List of Hardware Used in Benchmarks.

Processors:
  · AMD AM2 Processors:
  · AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ (2.00GHz)
  · AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ (2.20GHz)
  · AMD Athlon64 X2 4600+ (2.40GHz)
  · AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (2.60GHz)

Intel Conroe Processors:
  · Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.86GHz)
  · Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 (2.12GHz)
  · Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.39GHz)
  · Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66GHz)
  · Intel Core 2 Duo X6800 (2.93GHz)

Memory:
  · x2 1024MB Corsair XMS PC-5400 CAS4 Modules

HDD:
  · Seagate 250GB 7200RPM SATA

Graphic Cards:
  · ASUS GeForce 8800 GTX - 768MB
  · ASUS GeForce 8800 GTS - 640MB

MotherBoards:
  · ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe - nForce 590 SLI Chipset
  · ASUS P5W DH Deluxe - Intel 975X Chipset

PSU:
  · 700Watt OCZ GameXtream PowerSupply

PART I - 3DMARK2006 PRO BENCHMARK

As you can see in the chart. there is no much difference between the GTX and GTS versions of the Geforce 8800 GPU among AMD X2 processors. There is a slight improvement in the performance of 8800GTX when used along with AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ but it we cant call it as a significant change. All the change comes between the two cards when worked along with Intel Core 2 Duo series processors. The underclocked version of E6300, even doesnt show much difference in performance but with the standard clock speeds there looks to be a lot of addition to the raw power that 8800GTX offers. The Frames per second slightly increases with the increasing of clock speeds of those conroe processors. So if you have an AMD processor and not planning for its upgrade then I would recommend you to stick with GTS version.

Well, to compare the performances with the standard E6300, the GTX is proved to be around 39% faster than GTS card and as the clock speeds vary, the change remains not much affected as the GTX shows a powerup around 38~42% than the GTS card. Also we it is proved that all that matters in the boost is because of the CPU architecture of the Intel Conroes

PART II - Company of Heroes

With the Call Of Duty Benchmarks, it doesnt show any change in the performance between the two cards until its equipped with a AMD 5000+ X2 processor. The GTX is 15% faster than GTS when used with 5000+, 26% Faster when it comes to E6300 and ofcourse the best performance, ie., 30% faster with E6600 and remains same with X6800. Its again proved that Intel's Architecture gives it a BIG boost.

PART III - F.E.A.R. Benchmarks

Fear depends on the graphic card mostly and doesn't get affected by the speed of processor. The benchmark showed it. There is only 1FPS increase when moving from 3800+ to the Intel's E6700. Also the interesting thing is that GTX Performs 38% more than the GTS card in all the cases. well, thats one big change seen so far.

PART IV - PREY Benchmarks

Prey too shows the same kind of Benchmarks as it was with FEAR. There was only 3FPS increase in performance when moving from 3800+ to E6700 and the performance boost in GTX showed 28% than the GTS card.

PART V - Final Words

Here is the final Judgement. If you have a High end processor then you can go for a 8800GTX version where getting a GTS version on a slower processor doesn't help much. Keep in mind that the GTX version is very much costly, ie around 70% more than GTS Card but performs only 30% more on an average. GTX can be good at a little slow processors but its a damn crap for the slow processors so people with those slow processors just forget about it as it simply burning money on nothing. Also if you are planning for an upgrade of your processor at a later then you could opt for the GTX one.

Both the cards actually perform really great. The full potential of the GTX card is only got when you use a 30" Huge Lcd monitor. Other wise GTS card will do just a great job. It is really one Price/Performance card in the market. If you just use a monitor that supports only 1280x1024, then just go for GTS. That will just perform GREAT!! at that resolution with all maxed out. If you want to look for the future and your wallet weighs heavy, then go for the extreme GTX version.

Nvidia released 320 MB GTS version recently that grabbed more attention from the gamers. The 320 Mb 8800GTS costs around 280$ and undoubtedly performs great. So for the low budget buyers this is the best choise I could give you..

So take your choice and Happy gaming.