3870 vrs 8800gt

[thenewguy]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814131072

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130302

any thoughts?

I like the price of the ati card and it has better specs + the ati card has GDDR4 but i have heard the gt cards are still better. also i hear that the ati drivers suck. I am running vista are the nvidia drivers more stable and better set for vista then ati?

 

[Geoff]

The 8800GT is a better card, but the 3870 there is $220, and the 8800GT is $330. I would go with the 3870.

 

[lordwars]

omg nothing to compare... Nvidia 8800 is the best ....

 

[Joe2005]

Go with the underdog, get a sucky card!

The 3870 for all thoes in doubt.

 

[diduknowthat]

Performance wise the 8800gt comes on top. But factoring in the price difference, and the 3870 uses less power and has a better/quieter cooler, I'd go with the HD 3870.

 

[oscaryu1]

8800GT > 3870

3870 - Lower power consumption, cooler, and price difference is great.

3870... wins

 

[vonfeldt7]

8800GT > 3870

3870 - Lower power consumption, cooler, and price difference is great.

3870... wins

You have you're sign backwards...I believe you wanted the "less than" sign..not the "greater than" sign..

 

[oscaryu1]

No, I meant that the 8800GT is better, but the price difference and all seems to balance it out a bit...

 

[Geoff]

You have you're sign backwards...I believe you wanted the "less than" sign..not the "greater than" sign..

No, Oscar is right. The 8800GT is greater than the 3870.

 

[Ignorantguy]

For that price, go with the 3870. With it being 55nm you can oc it to perform up to if not better than the 8800gt.

 

[maroon1]

You posted the most expensive 8800GT in newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150252

Actually the difference in power consmpution between HD3870 and 8800GT is negligible but since 8800GT performs better, 8800GT have better performance per watt

And stock vs stock speeds, 8800GT is around 15% faster than HD3870
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3151&p=12

 

[thenewguy]

WOW that brought alot of opinoins in a short time!


If the 8800gt is better then the 3870 then how does a person go out and decide on a card by specs. I mean going by the specs the 3870 should stomp all over the 8800. Is there a particular spec i should be looking at that i am missing?

 

[ThatGuy16]

Im thinking about doing Crossfire 3870's... SLI 8800GT's arn't doing so great, unless its driver issues.

 

[hermeslyre]

WOW that brought alot of opinoins in a short time!


If the 8800gt is better then the 3870 then how does a person go out and decide on a card by specs. I mean going by the specs the 3870 should stomp all over the 8800. Is there a particular spec i should be looking at that i am missing?

They don't. Deciding which card is better based on their specifications is a losing game, the differences of any card go beyond clockrate, and pipelines. Look at benchmarks instead.

 

[Ramodkk]

They don't. Deciding which card is better based on their specifications is a losing game, the differences of any card go beyond clockrate, and pipelines. Look at benchmarks instead.

Exactly, listen to him, when I bought mt 7600GT I was about to get a X1600XT due to looking at specs while the 7600GT performed better...

 

[ride3k]

on paper the 3870 wins, but ATi has the shittiest drivers out right now. when 7.11 drivers come along and they are tweaked to better optimize the card, you will see the performance gap shrink, thus making it a cost issue, thus giving the win to the 3870. Plus, the chipset that makes use of pci-e2.0 can only be used for crossfire, and two 3850 will smoke anything in their price bracket. but wait for 7.11 drivers, or be frustrated with lackluster performance untill they are released

 

[Joe2005]

By the time the drivers are released there will be PCIe2.0 motherboards everywhere. Sli, Crossfire, single you name it.

 

[spanky]

I would pay 269 for the XFX 8800GT over ATI 3870 for 220. Worth extra 50 bucks IMO.