On the example of the reference card NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS PCI-E 512MB DDR3 (680/1674/1600 MHz).

Features:

• NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS GPU, 680/1674 MHz clock rate
• Pixel processors: -
• Vertex processors: -
• Unified processors: 96
• Texture processors: 28 (56)
• ROPs: 16
• 384MB DDR3 SGRAM in 6 Qimonda BGA chips. 800 (1600) MHz peak clock rate
• 192-bit bus

This graphics card supports DirectX 10.

This small mid-end series bases on a pared-down 8800 GT and supports all current innovations, including DX10 shaders.

1.0ns fetch corresponds to the 1000 (2000) MHz clock rate.

You can read more on GeForce 8 Series in our reviews.

On February 15, 2008 the latest driver from NVIDIA was 169.28 beta for Windows XP/ Windows Vista.

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