X-bit labs

Started by: khoa | Date 12/13/06

Comments: 35 | Last Comment:  01/04/08

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1. what about it's power usage?
much many watts for idle and full utilized?

Please check out our first review of the GeForce 8800, and specifically the section devoted to the Power Consumption here: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/gf8800_11.html

145W for fully loaded but no number for idle.
i always leave my pc on for days, even upto weeks.

2. I have rewritten the paragraph on page 28, conclusions, to make sense to me...

You should also have a powerful CPU, enough system memory and a monitor that supports resolutions of 1600x1200 and higher.
A CPU that is older than a year will not allow the GeForce 8800 GTX to reveal its full potential in some games when you enable full-screen antialiasing.

Is that what the paragraph should state?.

3. Nice review. Finally a card from Nvidia that draws as much excitement as when the GF4 was first launched.

Can't wait to see how much more performance is available after the drivers mature a bit.

4. Great review. Thanks XBit Labs for your very thorough and detailed analysis. Good job and keep up the good work!

5. Terrific review guys, must have taken a long time to tryout so many games

6. Another excellent review - good work guys (and gals!) :)

7. Excellent review. Good job on using HQ driver settings and having AA enabled in all benches. The minimum fps numbers are helpful too. This is by far better than the reviews of most other sites.

8. How do you correct a 49.9ohm resistor to 25.5ohm with an ordinary lead pencil?

9. Thanks guys,

Good job. However, there are some issues with performance.
When it comes to Quad Sli and Fear, I think that the hardware does not do what you asked it to do. Most probably, a driver bug. It is not possible for 8x AA to be faster than 4x AA.
There are also a lot of discreapncies with 1950XT and antialiasing. In some cases, like Quake, Prey, Tomb Raider 1920x1200 6x AA is faster than 4x. In Oblivion Indoor 6x is faster than 4x across all resolutions, while in Oblivion Outdoor 4x AA is much faster than no AA. Could you edit the figures?

There are tiny performance fluctations conditioned by overal system behaviour and that have no relation to overal performance scores, so, you really should not be concerned about them. Just bear in mind that there may be some kind of variations due to driver bugs and/or system behaviour, which do not affect the whole picture.

We will investigate Oblivion performance further. Thanks for pointing out.

I don't know if anyone's checking these comments anymore, but I find that when I "force" AA in the control panel to use in Oblivion, it has no effect on the level of anti-aliasing carried out. Could this be the reason for the discrepancy in nos.?
This is regardless of whether HDR ios chosen. Only "in-game" AA options have any effect on the anti-aliasing carried out.

10. This does not even count as a review without FLIGHT SIMULATOR x. The most graphically intensive game ever made.

11. Thanks XbitLabs so much for this awesome review! The delay of posting this review is very understandable, since you had to endure all of those problems with the 8800GTX.

It's a big plus for us to know about those problems, with a big thanks to you. Some of us do not want to bother with having some of those problems, let alone experiencing ALL of those problems like you did! Forget it, no thanks.. I already had enough trouble with my 7900GTX SLI setup--had to reinstall WinXP on a formatted drive and I don't feel like facing any more issues for a long while.

There's one thing--seeing how the 8800's 8x CSAA is pretty much equal to ATI's 6X FSAA in image quality, it would be nice to also include 8X CSAA performance numbers in those graphs. In some games, 8X CSAA performs so much better than 8X MSAA, making MSAA not worth it. But I guess you're tired of benchmarking for now after putting together this great review, right? LOL :)

Great review!

12. Great review well done this unbiased article so far unlike other website that I dont want to mention about it.

13. I own basically the same system as was used for these benchmarks, and I agree with results!! Can't wait for driver optimizations and SLI benchmark numbers!

14. When you mean powerful CPU, is the E6600 good enough with this monster?

15. wow, nice nice nice

16. Am I blind ? I cant see the used PC (CPU, RAM...)

17. Yes, second page ! First look-then write !

18. Nice review, people!

However, one thing I'd be interested in is whether you will test the 8800GTS, I'd like to know how it compares to single card solutions with the GTX or a ATI x1950xtx, considering pricewise it is compareable to the ATI...

19. nice processor your using. not to mention the bottleneck the xfire x1950xtx is experiencing. what a biased review.

what did you expect? new gen against old gen. kissas nvidia fanboys

20. i got the bfg 8800 gtx and i dont see any value on the transistor
its shaded blue or something
does anyone else have a bfg 8800 gtx too

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