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Nvidia Mainstream DX10 VGA Roundup |
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Written by Nebojsa Todorovic
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Thursday, 31 May 2007 |
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Page 1 of 10 With the expiry of NDA for G84 and G86 chips, we got a couple of GeForce 8600GTS cards to test. The fastest ones to lend sample cards were ASUS and MSI, and now, a month later, all of the manufacturers introduced their mid-range novelties. Within this price range, you will be able to find three different models, together with certain variations some manufacturers apply to their models. Those 3 models are 8500GT, 8600GT, and 8600GTS.
| Specs | GeForce 8500GT | GeForce 8600GT | | GPU | G86 | G84 | | Stream Processors | 16 | 32 | | Texture Units | 16 | 16 | | ROP | 8 | 8 | | GPU Freq. (MHz) | 450 | 540 | | Man. Technology (nm) | 80 | 80 | | Shader Operations | 7200 | 17280 | | Pixel Fill Rate (MPix/s) | 3600 | 4320 | | Texture Fill Rate (MTex/s) | 3600 | 8640 | | Vertex Operations | 1800 | 4320 | | Memory Type | DDR2 | GDDR3 | | Memory Freq. (MHz) | 800 | 1400 | | Mem. Bus | 128bit | 128bit | | Mem. Bandwidth (Gb/s) | 12,8 | 22,4 |
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All three are labelled as “HD Ready”, meaning that they possess PureVideo HD Engine, which enables video decoding with a significant decrease in processor load. However, unlike the new AMD models, they are one phase short while conducting the VC-1 video editing, which implies that the new AMD cards will be superior in the HD segment. As far as this test is concerned, we have six models on the line. So, let's go.
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