GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB
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It has been only three months since the hard launch of NVIDIA’s next generation GPUs, the GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS supporting DirectX 10. Three months in and NVIDIA is here to debut a third entry into their new lineup for the more price conscious. We have yet to hear or see what AMD/ATI has to offer in their next generation; everyone is waiting with bated breath for that one. While we wait, NVIDIA is basking in the limelight with the only GPUs available to the end user that support the latest DirectX 10 technology.

Unfortunately, there aren’t any DirectX 10 games to exploit that technology yet. In fact, it could be several more months before we are able to enjoy the benefits that DirectX 10 is promising to deliver. While we cannot test DirectX 10 performance or image quality in games now, we can still enjoy what the GeForce 8 series GPUs have to bring to the table in today’s games. The GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS simply offer the best gaming experience you can get on planet Earth right now in current DirectX 9 games.

While we wait for NVIDIA Windows Vista ForceWare drivers to mature (and boy do they need to) we can go ahead and test current gaming performance with current games in Windows XP. Currently Windows Vista offers no tangible benefits to gamers to upgrade at this moment. Sure, the only way you are going to benefit from DirectX 10 is going to be by upgrading to Windows Vista, but currently there are no DirectX 10 games, therefore the argument is moot. With that in mind we are going to evaluate today’s video cards with the good ole tried and true Windows XP.

Read all about it here, courtesy of HardOCP.com

Eric