Nvidia GeForce 9800GTX

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Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX Review - Toms Hardware.com

 

"Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX: A card that's almost as fast as the 8800 Ultra at a much lower price is a good thing. But a year and a half after the release of the GeForce 8 series, and even though AMD doesn't really have anything that can go head to head with this card, we'd have liked a little more punch to replace the 8800 GTX with (which is also now being sold for under $400). What we got instead was a card that's very noisy under load and limited by a stingy 512 MB of memory. These drawbacks are especially disappointing given that the 8800 GTS 512 MB is very similar and less expensive."

 

GeForce 9800 GTX and 3-way SLI: May the nForce Be With You - AnandTech.com

 

"So, now that we have the 9800 GTX in the mix, what has changed? Honestly, not as much in terms of performance stack as in price. Yes, the 8800 Ultra is better than the 9800 GTX where memory bandwidth is a factor, but other than that the relationship of the 9800 GTX to the 3870X2 is largely the same. Of course, NVIDIA would never sell 8800 Ultra below the 3870X2 price of $400 (the binned 90nm G80 glued on there didn’t come cheap)."

 

BFGTech GeForce 9800 GTX - HardOCP.com

 

"It is also worth mentioning here that it is getting harder and harder to find valid game titles to push these high-end video cards. As you have likely seen on HardOCP, we now have $125 video cards that can play some of the latest games at 1920x1200 resolution. That is simply amazing. That also said, we are seeing fewer and few reasons to spend big bucks on video cards of an expensive nature. We keep seeing the rumors of AMD’s lacking competition causing NVIDIA to drag its feet when it comes to releasing next-gen technology, but you have to wonder what games we would we be playing on it if we had it today. Crysis was not good enough to play through another time. While some complain that we have not been showing enough games lately, we have to argue that showing you a bunch more all at max resolutions is not going to accomplish much either. The hardware is running well ahead of the software overall."