8800GT Poor Graphics Performance

sinbin said:

sorry but 8800 gt is a poor card,Dont expect to much performance from it.
Upgrade man GTS 250 1GB IS UNDER £100 IF U SEARCH AROUND `gOOD LUCK

no... the 8800GT is a great card for 1680x1050 & below, 1920x1200 is a little much for this card, but still more than capable of holding its own with modern GFX.

Ballistic said:

The 8800GT is pretty much the older 9800GT.. Only difference is a few shaders which a normal human wouldn't even be capable of noticing... In comparison the 9800GT isn't all that worse then a GTS 250.. It's about 10% difference in performance when you crunch the numbers... You would have this guy discard a perfectly good 8800GT in favor of a rough 10% increase in performance... that's not very logical and to begin with his issue is that after W7 he is noticing decrease in performance when things should be around the same as they were previously which lead him to question the drivers

there's no shader differences between the 8800GT & 9800GT, the only difference is TriSLI (on the 9800) :)

but i totally agree with your post.....

The 8800GT is still a great card, even if it becomes an ancestor (two and a half years old).
Btw Nvidia 9 series GPU are the biggest joke I have ever seen (9600GT = 8800GT / 9800GTX = 8800 Ultra).
Now for the GTS250: it's a good middle-end card, quite better than a 8800 but not 50% more!
In order to make a comparison, here is the score of my 8800GT through 3DMark Vantage: 5449 pts whereas a 5850 gets about 10300 pts. Does a GTS250 worth a 5850? I'm not sure of that..