NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Graphics card features
3. Testbed configuration, benchmark list
4. Test results
5. Conclusions

Installation and drivers

Testbed configuration:

• Intel Core2 Duo (775 Socket) based machine
  • Intel Core2 Duo Extreme X6800 (2930 MHz; L2=4096K) CPU
  • EVGA nForce 680i SLI motherboard on NVIDIA nForce 680i
  • 2 GB of Corsair's 1142MHz DDR2 SDRAM (CAS (tCL)=5; RAS to CAS delay (tRCD)=5; Row Precharge (tRP)=5; tRAS=15)
  • WD Caviar SE WD1600JD 160GB SATA HDD
  • Tagan 1100-U95 (1100W) PSU
• Windows XP SP2; DirectX 9.0c
• 30" Dell 3007WFP monitor
• ATI CATALYST 7.4; NVIDIA 158.18 drivers.

VSync disabled.

Test results: performance comparison

We used the following benchmarks:

• Splinter Cell Chaos Theory v.1.04 (Ubisoft) - DirectX 9.0, shaders 3.0 (with and without HDR), maximum settings.
• Call Of Juarez (Techland/Ubisoft) - DirectX 9.0, shaders 3.0 (HDR), demo (demo, maximum quality, batch file supplied.
• FarCry 1.4 beta (Crytek/UbiSoft), DirectX 9.0, shaders 2.0b/3.0 (with and without HDR), 3 demo from Research (run with -DEVMODE option), Very High settings, HDRRendering=1 parameter for HDR.
• PREY 1.01 (3D Realms Entertainment / Human Head Studios / 2K Games) - OpenGL, shaders 2.x, demo003 (40MB), maximum settings, batch file supplied.
• 3DMark05 1.20 (FutureMark) - DirectX 9.0, multitexturing, trilinear filtering.
• Serious Sam II 1.068 (Croteam / 2K Games) - DirectX 9.0, shaders 3.0 (with and without HDR), batch file, standard supplied demo0002, maximum settings. We thank Voznyuk Valery Mikhailovich AKA Px for writing a batch file for this game.
• F.E.A.R. v.1.08 Multiplayer (Monolith/Sierra) - DirectX 9.0, shaders 2.0, maximum settings, soft shadows disabled.
• Company Of Heroes (Relic Entertainment / THQ) - DirectX 9.0, shaders 2.0, batch file, in game invoke settings -> graphics -> click test button, maximum quality.
• 3DMark06 1.02 (FutureMark) - DirectX 9.0c, multitexturing, trilinear filtering.

Compare prices:

1. BFG GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB PCIe
2. EVGA GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB PCIe
3. XFX GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB PCIe
4. GeForce 7950 GX2
5. 8800 GTX 768MB
6. X1950 XTX