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Faster than GeForce 9800 GTX, Available Today: Gainward Bliss 8800 GTS 1024MB TV DD GS GLH Review (page 8)

Category: Video

by Alexey Stepin , Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 03/31/2008 | 12:35 PM ]

Call of Juarez

This is one of the few games that can really use up over 512MB of graphics memory, at least when you enable full-screen antialiasing. Anyway, the Gainward Bliss 8800 GTS 1024MB cannot beat the GeForce 8800 GTX, let alone GeForce 8800 Ultra, and cannot provide playable performance even at 1280x1024 with the highest graphics quality settings. It should be noted that the Radeon HD 3870 X2 is no better in this test and has a much lower minimum of speed than the G92-based products.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

The reviewed card from Gainward enjoys the biggest lead over the GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB at 1280x1024 – about 20%. The gap is getting smaller towards higher resolutions, to 7-8% at 1920x1200. Both cards from Gainward with 1GB of graphics memory and the reference card from Nvidia deliver comfortable performance at every resolution. They are thus all equal in the gamer’s eyes.