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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53564

Cheaper GeForce 8800 Cards In Mid Feb - The new cards will based on the same 8800GTS GPU (96 unified, 24 texture processors and 20 ROPs). It has the same core and memory clock speeds but half the memory size of the current 8800GTS cards. The performance is close to the current 8800GTS 640M but it is US

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Tuuba · Contributor Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 1

What's the source for the cheaper geforces news?

xxxx · Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:18 am Post subject:

As from Guru3D

What to buy, the GTS or the GTX? Well whatever floats your boat budget wise I'd say. Obviously the GTS will offer you more bang for your bucks. But the performance differential between the two cards is roughly 25%... what a coincidence...

1. 25% less performance
2. 25% less streaming processors
3. 25% smaller price tag of a GTX

And that's also the price differential .. 599x0.25=149 bucks. And since the GTS is exactly 150 cheaper, it's a proper match.

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GTS is cheap for a reason. I'd pay the extra money for a GTX myself. But there is still the 8900 in less than 6 months.