Thursday 29th November 2007

GeForce 8800M GTX – first benchmarks

Posted at: 4:50am 29th November 2007 by Clive Webster

We put Nvidia’s first mobile DirectX 10 GPU through its paces to see how it copes with the latest games

There’s also a GeForce 8800M GTS model, which differs only in the amount of stream processors it has (64 rather than 96), and it also has a lower TDP, although Nvidia hasn’t specified the number of Watts yet.

However, the GeForce 8800 M GTX costs an arm and a leg by all accounts. Upgrading from the standard GeForce 8700M GT on the Rock configurator adds a massive £400 inc VAT to the overall price. That makes it almost £300 more than the previous top-performing mobile GPU, the GeForce Go 7950 GTX. So, while the GeForce 8800M GTX is easily the fastest mobile GPU, and makes laptop gaming feasible, you’ll pay a lot for the privilege. Is the cost worth it? Let us know your thoughts below.

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To Lightning_Pete........

First off Rock are not the ONLY good laptop manufacturer for games and so called power users. Fool! Secondly if you actually read the article you can clearly see that CPC max out the settings and then LOWER them to achieve a playable framerate. After all you need a level of comparison in a test.

Comment by pveater at 7:49am 4th December 2007

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A 8600 on the laptop model (my friend has a ROCK laptop, which are the only decent laptops for gamers and power users) and it copes alrite on world in conflict, however, custompc trys to max out everything gfx wise, so at the end of the day, its not gonna be an ultra, that even that struggles at higher resolutions in W.I.C. ..... so its not suprising that this is not going to cope very well at 1280x1024 anyhoo it still means COD4 is a good option :)

Comment by Lightning_Pete at 10:09pm 2nd December 2007

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Cool_CR are you on about the performance between DX10 and DX9 in Crysis or the visual difference?? As it seems as though your on about the visual difference to me, believe me there is no visual difference between DX10 and DX9 settings in Crysis, the shadows and effects look VERY slightly enchanced? Also I have 2 8800Ultras and I am playing crysis at Max DX10 setting with 2X AA @ 1920X1200 and the game never dips below 40fps for even when im in huge open areas with hundreds of baddies in my way. I have tried to run the game at the same settings using just one card and I can run the game just fine at 1680x1050 with 4X AA never dipping below 35fps. If you have a GTX then try running the game with No AA this will boost performance tenfold and add easily an extra 10 maybe even 12fps. And trust me with no AA you cant tell the game still looks silky smooth! Only at long distances the object look jaggied but who cares about that most of the time ur looking through your binoculars anyway.

Comment by CPC_RedDawn at 4:00am 30th November 2007

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People people there are areas of the game Crysis that are more demanding than the demo witch my pc breezes through the demo with no stutter at all but latter it feels its age in the large Open maps with hundreds of troops also inside the alien ship hurts my GTX to. And When you say very high is that very high dx10 or very high dx9 as there is a mile of diffrence. also drivers overclocks chip sets and processors all either help or hinder game performance. I play at 1280x1024 with x2 AT but drop to 1024x768 when in the big areas all at very high dx10 GTX for the win.

Comment by Cool_CR at 11:37pm 29th November 2007

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8800GT Desktop

Running an E6600 mildly OC'd @ 2.8Ghz with an 8800GT at stock speeds. I am playing the Crysis demo at High settings on everything and at 1280x1024. Frame rate never seems to drop below 25 and most of the time is around 40fps.

Comment by do_it_anyway at 9:07pm 29th November 2007

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Any idea how this card compares to a pair of SLI 8700s? I know its more expensive but performance-wise, I cant rummage up much info on either!

Comment by DarkGarlic at 8:23pm 29th November 2007

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desktop 8800gt on MEDIUM settings!?...

... at 1024x768 in crysis!?? My 8800gts will kick out a fully decent frame rate on all very high settings(except shaders) at 1680x1050, And thats supposedly an inferior card. to asume anyone with a desktop GT will be happy anything less is surely wrong innit? you should be going for very high settings with a full-fat GT, the game will be totally playable

Comment by Gabbawoky at 6:18pm 29th November 2007

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HOW MUCH!!

Unless you're rolling in it, i don't think a gaming laptop is a good idea. We all know you can't upgrade a laptop beyond a point, so all that money for it to be outdated in a year or less when they actualy bring out a card that can play these newer games at full on eye candy? Make mine gold plated with diamond encrusted buttons please........NOT!