High rez

It probably depends on the game.  I have the 8800GT, and I can play NWN2 and, if I recall, Half Life 2 at that resolution with ease.  Crysis, however, I scale down to a 1680X1050, I think.

That chart doesn't say what CPU it's running on.

Edited by Duke - 14 Mar 2008 at 2:45pm

So I ran the Crysis GPU_bench flydemo myself. Here are my results:

Run #1- DX10 1024x768 AA=No AA, 64 bit test, Quality: Medium ~~ Overall Average FPS: 62.702448979591836734693877551

Run #2- DX10 1024x768 AA=No AA, 64 bit test, Quality: VeryHigh ~~ Overall Average FPS: 31.153333333333333333333333333

Edited by Duke - 14 Mar 2008 at 10:58pm

Unfortunately, VGA charts can only serve as a snapshot in time of relative performance levels between cards. They may not even be 100% when it comes to that. GPU companies cheat on their drivers to artificially inflate reported performance. Drivers are written specifically to optimize performance on a particular canned time demo, and then huge increases in performance in that game are ballyhooed to the waiting press.

So keep some skepticism while looking over any source of benchmarking, unless you've gone to the trouble of creating your own time demo, and have access to the cards you want to compare.

Here's an example of actual gameplay benchmarking versus canned demo result:

Originally posted by Hard OCP.com

There are disadvantages to this method as well, as the results of this website cannot be easily verified by looking at the results of other testers. However, note that the average FPS here is just over 25FPS. In this test, shaders and water were set to "high" for the 9600GT SLI setup, while the 8800GTX was able to also run textures at "high". So the settings are not entirely medium. However, these figures are also a far cry (pardon the pun) from those reported after running the canned benchmark.

Again, the figures above are for comparison's sake. Relative performance, given the drivers available to the testers, and the ptach version of the game, on that day- nothing more or less.
 
Joker3, I think the 8800GT could reasonably be expected to show performance between that of the 8800GTX and the 9600GT, probably closer to the 9600GT in most cases than the 8800GTX.


Edited by Tyler Lowe - 15 Mar 2008 at 9:30am