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Nvidia 8800GT... bit old now?

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Africangecko

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I'm considering buying a mac for my graphics work. I also want it to be able to run the few games I have very well. The only problem I see is the Mac Pro hasn't kept up with Nvidia's product line. I can accept a few models behind... but two whole series behind is a bit much don't you think?

Nvidia made the 9000 sereis... and is now onto the 260 and 280.

What do you guys think?

Cheers
Mike
 
Yep :)

But... soo too bad that the X2 is not coming.... :(

I must admit that the 8800 GT card still is a gr8 buy, if you regularly play Windows games, and not too much Motion stuff. It is cheap, and performs very well, especially in Windows. Games like GRiD run at full settings easily!
 
MacsRgr8 said:
Yep :)

But... soo too bad that the X2 is not coming.... :(

I must admit that the 8800 GT card still is a gr8 buy, if you regularly play Windows games, and not too much Motion stuff. It is cheap, and performs very well, especially in Windows. Games like GRiD run at full settings easily!
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my imac have nvidia 8800GS is it better than GT?
 
GS is faster period. The reason why Apple is "behind" is that they don't released new models right after every release of the graphics chip. It doesn't make sense, and the performance difference is slight. Just wait, they should update soon.
 
SnowLeopard2008 said:
GS is faster period. The reason why Apple is "behind" is that they don't released new models right after every release of the graphics chip. It doesn't make sense, and the performance difference is slight. Just wait, they should update soon.
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Okay.
I seemd to remember this this comparison over at Barefeats, but as they say there.. it's not fair to compare an iMac with the 8800 GS with the Mac Pro with 8800 GT as the Mac Pro is faster on CPU speed...

BTW.. how da hell can you keep up with all the cards in the GeForce 8 Series
And then this (from the same page):
On April 28 2008, Apple announced an updated iMac line featuring an 8800 GS with 512MB of video memory. [7] However, the card is actually a rebranded NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
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alphaod said:
Subjectively yes. For most things yes; also the 8800GS supports PhysX (in Windows at least).

Uh no.
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Uhh, the 8800GT stomps all over the 8800GS, with its faster clock speeds and almost double the stream processors and bandwidth.

People think its faster because its a rebranded 8800m GTS, and GTS is normally faster than GT, but desktop GPUs are always a lot faster than their mobile named counterparts.
 
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