6800GT vs. 7900GS

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gazaman

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Hi all... I was wondering if someone could help. I've seen all of the comparison charts that everyone has posted whereby I could compare the stats of one card to another. Unfortunately, I am a bit of a noob when it comes to translating specs into real world experience. Anyway, my question is this:

I currently have a GeForce 6800GT in my system and I wondered how much of a performance increase I would see if I moved to a 7900GS. I typically play BF2 and BF2142 on medium to high settings and I don't really have a complaint with the 6800GT. But then again, I wouln't know what better actually looks like since I've never used a better card. Just how much better would my game look? How much smoother? How much faster? etc. What kinds of things could I expect to see if I moved to the 7900GS?

By the way... my current system is a Dell (3.20GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache) with 4gig of RAM.

Thanks much!
 
You can turn on higher resolutions, plus you can turn on AA (I seriously doubt you can do that currently in BF2142 with advanced lighting). Transparency AA (which you cannot do on the 6800 series without a hack) looks great in BF2, especially on maps with lots of fences.
 
gazaman said:
Hi all... I was wondering if someone could help. I've seen all of the comparison charts that everyone has posted whereby I could compare the stats of one card to another. Unfortunately, I am a bit of a noob when it comes to translating specs into real world experience. Anyway, my question is this:

I currently have a GeForce 6800GT in my system and I wondered how much of a performance increase I would see if I moved to a 7900GS. I typically play BF2 and BF2142 on medium to high settings and I don't really have a complaint with the 6800GT. But then again, I wouln't know what better actually looks like since I've never used a better card. Just how much better would my game look? How much smoother? How much faster? etc. What kinds of things could I expect to see if I moved to the 7900GS?

By the way... my current system is a Dell (3.20GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache) with 4gig of RAM.

Thanks much!
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Lots faster, lol. I've got a 6800GS, so I can relate to you. I'm running a single 6800GS right now, since my AW9D-Max is going back to the shop. My 6800GS is a slightly better than your 6800GT, but when I SLI, i get about the performance of an awesomely overclocked 7900GS, and the difference is pretty big. In BF2, I can run 1280x1024, 4xAA, 16AF, max settings and get playable frames (when I mean playable, it's like 50< frames).
 
6800GT
Manufacturer: nVidia
Series: GeForce 6
Interface: PCI-E x16
Core Clock: 350 MHz
Memory Clock: 500 MHz (1000 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 32 GB/sec
Shader Operations: 5600 Operations/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 5600 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 5600 MTexels/sec
Vertex Operations: 525 MVertices/sec

7900GS
Manufacturer: nVidia
Series: GeForce 7
Interface: PCI-E x16
Core Clock: 450 MHz
Memory Clock: 660 MHz (1320 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 42.24 GB/sec
Shader Operations: 9000 Operations/sec
Pixel Fill Rate: 7200 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 9000 MTexels/sec
Vertex Operations: 787.5 MVertices/sec

The 7900GS pwns the 6800GT by a large margin. You will see the increase in performance (faster fps, less lag) and quality (higher AA and AO without performance drop, nicer quality in graphics such as shadows and lighting).

If it were me, I would do the upgrade. ;)
 
I went from a 6800 Ultra to a 7900gs, and it was a very big difference. You wont regret it.
 
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