The modern GPUs with unified architecture are known to have a far higher computing capacity than the previous generations of GPUs, but not all games can put their resources to full use. A good example is our recent test of the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT: in many games its 64 shader processors proved to be enough to deliver performance similar to the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB. It means the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB can be as fast as the GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB if it is overclocked to the same GPU and memory frequencies.

We have tested a number of pre-overclocked models of GeForce 8800 GT 512MB and found them to be equal or even superior to the GeForce 8800 GTX. And now we’ve got the opportunity to see how the GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB and the GeForce 8800 GT 512MB differ in performance if their clock rates are identical. For this test we’ve taken a curious sample of 8800 GT 512MB manufactured by Elitegroup Computer Systems, the well-known mainboard maker.

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