What will be the 8800GT of DX11 cards?

when the 8800GT came out, there was a lot of talk about it. it was pretty much unanimously regarded as a very good card for the money. if you look at Valve's Steam hardware survey today, you can see the 8800GT is still the most used DX10 card.

what i'm wondering is, what made this card so popular? i would like to buy the 8800GT of the DX11 generation, but how will i know what card is it?

When the 8 series came out the 8800GTX was regarded as the big boy and everyone wanted one but couldnt afford one...about a year later (iam guessing that time frame) the 8800GT was released and offered pretty much the 8800GTX performance for a LOT LOT LOT less money. It was just the thing that a lot of people were waiting for...a bargain!

i found this on wikipedia:

GeForce 8

Released on November 8, 2006, the 8th generation GeForce (G80 originally) was the first ever GPU to fully support DirectX 10. Built on a brand new architecture, manufactured in 80 nm, it has a fully unified shader architecture. Originally just the 8800GTX, the GTS was released months into the product line's life, and it took nearly 6 months for mid-range and OEM/mainstream cards to be integrated into the 8-series. The Die-shrink down to 65 nm and a revision to the G80 design, codenamed G92, were implemented into the 8 series with the 8800GS, the 8800GT, and 8800GTS-512. First released on October 29, 2007, almost one whole year after the initial G80 release.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce

when the 8800GT came out, there was a lot of talk about it. it was pretty much unanimously regarded as a very good card for the money. if you look at Valve's Steam hardware survey today, you can see the 8800GT is still the most used DX10 card.

what i'm wondering is, what made this card so popular? i would like to buy the 8800GT of the DX11 generation, but how will i know what card is it?

rock_solid

The GeForce 300 series is launching later this year. So if I had to guess I'd would say the GTX 360... if they make a 360 that is.

8800gt is not a card to buy, you will not have enough satisfaction playing crysis or crysis warhead... and new games later on...

go for at least gtx260 216 cores, ...or if you have more money to spend, get a gtx 275. for longer life span before touches the limitations of graphics

8800gt is not a card to buy, you will not have enough satisfaction playing crysis or crysis warhead... and new games later on...

go for at least gtx260 216 cores, ...or if you have more money to spend, get a gtx 275. for longer life span before touches the limitations of graphics

8800gt is not a card to buy, you will not have enough satisfaction playing crysis or crysis warhead... and new games later on...

go for at least gtx260 216 cores, ...or if you have more money to spend, get a gtx 275. for longer life span before touches the limitations of graphics

maxgoh

8800gt is not a card to buy, you will not have enough satisfaction playing crysis or crysis warhead... and new games later on...

go for at least gtx260 216 cores, ...or if you have more money to spend, get a gtx 275. for longer life span before touches the limitations of graphics

[QUOTE="maxgoh"]

8800gt is not a card to buy, you will not have enough satisfaction playing crysis or crysis warhead... and new games later on...

go for at least gtx260 216 cores, ...or if you have more money to spend, get a gtx 275. for longer life span before touches the limitations of graphics

rock_solid

One of my coworkers' husband is a Mobo engineer for Nvidia. I have been going through her to him, asking tons of questions about the new graphics cards. Most of the coming info is a secret. - Threre really is no way to predict the future of these cards unless Nvidia starts announcing thier upcoming products. All I've been told is that yes, the next Gen cards are coming and are worth the wait!!

The 8800GT is in my opinion, a legend among video cards...I mean it has just been THAT popular. Not to mention that it was basically the sole reason that Nvidia survived against the late ATi 3000 series release and the early release of the 4000 series. The 9000 series sure the hell didn't do any good for them.chandlerr_360

[QUOTE="maxgoh"]

8800gt is not a card to buy, you will not have enough satisfaction playing crysis or crysis warhead... and new games later on...

go for at least gtx260 216 cores, ...or if you have more money to spend, get a gtx 275. for longer life span before touches the limitations of graphics

rock_solid

There's no way to tell.

This forum is making me regret my GTX 275 purchase -.-.

Oh well, DX11 cards probably won't be affordable/practically used till a year or so after release.

There's no way to tell.

This forum is making me regret my GTX 275 purchase -.-.

Oh well, DX11 cards probably won't be affordable/practically used till a year or so after release.

urdead18

[QUOTE="urdead18"]

There's no way to tell.

This forum is making me regret my GTX 275 purchase -.-.

Oh well, DX11 cards probably won't be affordable/practically used till a year or so after release.

Xsan3

good news is nowaday games are optimise for the 2 consoles and pc. even the cryengine 3. I'm sure capcom can do better with pc. but from their standpoint, they have to take care of their business for all the consoles... the quality of the pcgames won't go toofar from console quality. that makes our 8800gt still good for recent games.

bad news is we have to stuck with console quality games even we buy pc version... with the exception of crysis and crysis warhead and...those pc exclusive...!