Thursday, January 24, 2008

Graphic Card : nVidia GeForce 8-series Review

Ok. After a few post about ATI, right now I will right about latest graphic card series from nVidia which is the 8-series. The graphic card that fall into this series is listed below:
  • GeForce 8800 Ultra - 768MB/384bit
  • GeForce 8800 GTX - 768MB/384bit
  • GeForce 8800 GTS - 640MB@320MB/320bit
  • GeForce 8800 GT - 512MB/256bit
  • GeForce 8600 GTS - 256MB/128bit
  • GeForce 8600 GT - 256MB/128bit
  • GeForce 8500 GT - 256MB/128bit
  • GeForce 8400 GS - 256MB/64bit
The 8-series graphic card from nVidia have a full support for Microsoft DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 which can give the gamers the best performance without disregard the graphic realism. To add more on it, this GeForce 8-series graphic card have improve the display output from 8-bit per channel for previous nVidia card to 10-bit per channel. To make it reach the expectation of gamers or even better go beyond it, this series also support SLi (Scalable Link Interface) except for 8400 GPUs.

NVIDIA has also introduced new anti-aliasing methods in this 8-series that includes the ability of the GPU's Reader Output Units to perform both Multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA) and HDR lighting at the same time, thus various limitations of previous generations. Apart from that, nVidia also includes NVIDIA PureVideo HD2 technology that provides a very outstanding Blu-ray and HD DVD movie picture quality.

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