Nvidia has finally got some 256MB 8800GTs on the market, or should we say XFX?
They are the first cards spotted for sale, and are using the custom black PCBs common with XFX and PNY cards and not green PCBs, common with cards bought from Nvidia and rebranded.
They are priced at 172eur for the stock version and 195eur for the XXX version, which is obviously higher clocked.
The problem with these 256MB cards is not the amount of RAM, which seems to be enough for all games if you don't use Anti-Aliasing or Anisotropic Filtering, but the speed at which it is clocked. Instead of the 1800MHz you get on 512MB cards, the 256MB version works at only 1400MHz and 1600MHz for the XXX version. We can get them with almost 2GHz RAM in the XXX version of the 512MB card. That is quite a big loss in memory bandwidth, but at 172eur they will still give the HD3850 a run for it's money.
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