nVidia 8500/8600 benchmarks arrived.

[Geoff]

I dont think this has been posted before, but here are the benchmarking results from the 8500 and 8600 series:

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38769

 

[elitehacker]

They seem to be reasonable, the 8800GTS seem very attractive.

 

[Martingale00]

Not too bad but with a QX6700 pushing them nothing to write home about either.

 

[ceewi1]

Would have been nice to have some current cards listed for comparison

 

[maroon1]

You can see here a comparison between stock 7900GT and overclocked 8600GTS

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4883&s=2

8600GTS was performing slightly faster, so I assume that a stock 8600GTS should be on par with stock 7900GT

However, you can easily overclock 8600GTS to 1GHz clock speed, if you volt-mode it. So this means that those cards are beast when it comes to overclocking.
http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4875&s=1

 

[INTELCRAZY]

What is the expected price tag?

 

[philaaay]

best buy has the 8600 gts for 249.99 - i picked one up today

 

[kof2000]

at that price might as well get a 8800gts

 

[fade2green514]

my 7800gt performs but a little worse than the 8600gt
there is hope that it will last yet!

 

[Geoff]

best buy has the 8600 gts for 249.99 - i picked one up today

at that price might as well get a 8800gts

Exactly, you can buy an 8800GTS 320MB for around $250 on Newegg.

 

[daisymtc]

I don't think 8600GTS is $250, I saw some people say it would around $200.
And the 8600GT is around $140

 

[Geoff]

I don't think 8600GTS is $250, I saw some people say it would around $200.
And the 8600GT is around $140

It obviously is if he paid that much for it

But you overpay for everything at Best Buy.

 

[diduknowthat]

best buy has the 8600 gts for 249.99 - i picked one up today

or you can get it on newegg

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121069

 

[daisymtc]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150228

 

[Boomer]

are they going to make a 512mb version of the 8600s too?

 

[Jet]

Really, other than the features, the 8600/8500 series isn't too impressive. If you have a 7900GT or a X1950Pro/GT, there is no reason to "upgrade"

 

[Burgerbob]

Really, other than the features, the 8600/8500 series isn't too impressive. If you have a 7900GT or a X1950Pro/GT, there is no reason to "upgrade"

I think is it mainly for people who want a budget card for DX10 and don't already have a preexisting card of thier own.

 

[maroon1]

Have anyone saw the benchmarks in the Anandtec
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2970&p=8

You can see some other benchmarks from here
http://techreport.com/reviews/2007q2/geforce-8600/index.x?pg=1
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_geforce_8600_gts_preview/page19.asp

In shader-intensive games like STALKER and oblivion the 8600GTS can outperform 7900GS, X1950pro and even 7950GT. When running AA, GeForce 8600 GTS often falls behind X1950pro because of the low memory bandwidth.

.............

One of improvements of 8600/8500 series over 8800 and 7xxx series is that it have new "VP2" video processing unit which is capable of offloading the entire decode process for HD-DVD and Blu-ray movies.

 

[INTELCRAZY]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=8600&x=15&y=29


THEY'RE HERE!!!

 

[Geoff]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Description=8600&x=15&y=29


THEY'RE HERE!!!

They were there yesterday to

And great benchmarks, as usual Maroon.