STALKER, World in Conflict
STALKER
Because of its use of deferred rendering, STALKER’s 3D engine only allows the activation of antialiasing based on shaders, which isn’t very convincing and is difficult to use since the performance level is already low without, thus its absence here.
With or without antialiasing, the hierarchy doesn’t change and the 8800 GT finds itself to be the perfect middle ground between 8800 GTX’s performances (which are 18 to 25% higher) and those of the HD 2900 XT (16-18% lower).
Word in Conflict
The excellent World in Conflict leaves us with almost nothing else to add, except that you need to go up to 1920 x 1400 + filters to see the 8800 GT’s limits in memory bandwidth/capacity compared to the 8800 GTX, with a performance decline of 10%. We’ll also highlight the excellent performances of the HD 2900 XT without filters, but it really doesn’t cope well with their activation in this title.
ah well, the 2900 pro (OC'd to xt) was still a good deal *tries to comfort himself*
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8800 GT puts the GTS in an bad price market now and not so smart buy now
8800GT looks like a real good midrange performer FOR THE MOMENT. I would not invest any money in a videocard upgrade, there are NO proven Dx10 cards out there. I would wait until Vista is sorted out and there are more than a `handful' of Dx10 games out there, otherwise you are just buying very poor attempts to deliver Dx10 performance on your PC.
If I really, really had to get a new card right now, it would be the 8800GT!
From my point of view as a more budget gamer, I hope that these new upper midrange releases push down the price of cards like the 8600GT and 8600GTS. I'm also very noise concious with my computers and it's good to see that the already relatively quiet 8800 series has contined in the same way.
I think it looks like a great opportunity for the owners of DX9 cards to comfortably come into the DX10 world. Still it is not that magic that will make me consider dealing in my 8800GTS 640MB - saving my pennies for the big fish early next year.
Seriously what did ppl expect? that gfx cards will stand still in time and not advance forward, with vista released i don't think microsoft will let hardware like the 8800gtx/ultra to sit at the top at a premium.
Since vista i trying for the masses they need hardware which can decently run it for the masses and priced for the masses.
Its good news for tech ppl etc who know the value from this, but how many ppl just want a computer that can play games decently and not cost a fortune? thats right everyone.
The tech has to advance like for win98 to winxp, everything takes time and the time has come for this.
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