NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX

The Nvidia GeForce 8800M GTX (partially also called nVidia GeForce Go 8800M GTX) is based upon the desktop G92 chip. It is the new top video chip of Nvidia for DirectX 10.

A particularity of the GeForce 8800M GTX are the "Unified Shaders". There don't exist any more dedicated pixel- and vertex shaders but 96 so called stream processors make the graphic work (which has been done by pixel and vertex shaders in former days). Further, the shader units are higher clocked than the chip (1250 MHz versus 800 MHz).

The performance of the 8800M GTX is higher than the performance of the 8700M GT due to the 256 bit wide memory bus and the high amount of Unified Shaders. The 8800M replaces the GeForce 7950 GTX at the top of the single graphic cards. Curent games should run fluently with highest resolutions. Also DirectX 10 games can be played in highest details for the very first time (Crysis not in the highest details). The memory equioment is 512 MB GDDR3.

An advantage of the GeForce 8000 series is the integrated PureVideo video processor. It is able to help with the decoding of H.264-, VC-1-, MPEG2- and WMV9 video material in HD quality and eases the CPU.

The current consumption and the waste heat are clearly higher than with the 8700M GT and therefore the chip (like the predecessor 7959 GTX) will only be availbale in big and heavy laptops. At moment, 35 Watts TDP are a rumour.

Compared with desktop graphic cards the performance should be at the level o the slightly faster clocked 8800 GS (8800GS 600/900 MHz clock, 192 bit memory
interface and 96 Unified Shaders).

benchmarks

3DMark 2001: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 27368, avg: 34755, max: 44085 Points ... More Details

3DMark 03: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 28465, avg: 29983, max: 31884 Points ... More Details

3DMark 05: - Standard 1024x768
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      min: 12761, avg: 14952, max: 17856 Points ... More Details

3DMark 06:
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      min: 8539, avg: 9194, max: 9788 Points ... More Details

Crysis - CPU Benchmark: - Low 1024x768
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      min: 101.2, avg: 102, max: 104 fps ... More Details

Crysis - CPU Benchmark: - High 1024x768
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      min: 26.1, avg: 31, max: 32.6 fps ... More Details

Cinebench R10: - Shading
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      min: 3732, avg: 4695, max: 6238 Points ... More Details

F.E.A.R.: - GPU min, CPU min 640x480
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      min: 35, avg: 301, max: 531 fps ... More Details

F.E.A.R.: - GPU medium, CPU medium 800x600
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      min: 31, avg: 188, max: 263 fps ... More Details

F.E.A.R.: - GPU: max, CPU: max 1024x768
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      min: 31, avg: 103, max: 116 fps ... More Details

Doom 3: - Low 640x480
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      min: 111.9, avg: 138, max: 161 fps ... More Details

Doom 3: - Medium 800x600
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      min: 112.7, avg: 137, max: 152.3 fps ... More Details

Doom 3: - High 800x600
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      min: 111.2, avg: 136, max: 149.8 fps ... More Details

Doom 3: - Ultra 1024x768
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      min: 110.3, avg: 134, max: 151.2 fps ... More Details

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Based on 126 benchmarks

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