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Published May 21, 2007 Find videocard prices |
Benchmarks: 3Dmark2006, X3: Reunion
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66GHz) LGA775
- Inno3D GeForce 7900GS (256MB)
- Gigabyte GeForce 7600GT (256MB)
- ASUS GeForce 8600GTS (256MB)
- ASUS GeForce 8600GT (256MB)
- Microsoft Windows XP Pro (SP2)
- Nvidia Forceware (158.22)
- Nvidia Forceware (93.71)
- Nvidia nForce 680i SLI (9.53)
According to 3Dmark2006 the 8800 GTS (320MB) graphics card is 66% faster than the new 8600 GTS at 1600x1200.
Keeping that in mind, the 8600 GT is just 5% slower than the 7900GS in 3Dmark2006 and costs roughly the same. The results are interesting but let’s move onto some real-world testing...
X3: Reunion is the first game we used to test these new GeForce 8600 series graphics cards. Let’s take a look at the performance recorded at 1600x1200. The 8800 GTS (320MB) managed 72.6fps making it 23% faster than the 8600 GTS, which puts the 8600 GTS in a pretty good spot. That is until you realize that the 7900 GS which costs just $160 was actually faster! Furthermore the old 7600 GT was 3fps faster than the 8600 GT. Not such good results for the new 8600 series in X3 then...
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