| Article Index |
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| Gainward GeForce 8600GTS 512MB VGA Card Review |
| Page 2 - Performance |
| Page 3 - 3DMark06 |
| Page 5 - Prey |
| Page 6 - Lost Planet (DirectX10) |
| Page 7 - Conclusion |
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Conclusion:
With 25% more clock speed, and 40% extra memory bandwidth for the 8600GTS over the 8600GT, the results we saw in the benchmarks pretty much fell right in the middle of these two numbers, giving a very predictable performance increase for the GTS over the GT. As for the 50% price premium you pay for a 8600GTS over a 8600GT, I’ll leave that up to you to decide if it’s good value or not, personally I don’t think it’s too bad.
That’s enough about the chipset, as for the Gainward Bliss 8600GTS 512MB version, it is a good quality card that stays near the lower end of the price spectrum, and even though I don’t particularly like or agree with some of its design elements, they wouldn’t stop me from owning or recommending one. The only real problem I see is that the cooling is only barely adequate and is far smaller than many other 8600GTS cards on the market, I say if they’re going to make a double slot card (many on the market have done single slot) then they should use that space better and include better cooling.
OzHardware Rating – 7.9/10
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