At 5/12/08 11:30 PM, cavemanD wrote:
I am running a geforce 7300 LE, and it has handled every game that I have tried pretty seamless, so I could not imagine a newer card being slower.
Sorry for being a copy paste whore but
The GeForce 8500 GT isn't considered to be a serious gaming card, and is a bit slower than even a 6600 GT. It's about twice as slow as the Geforce 8600 GT, which has been considered disappointing and underpowered by many, the main criticism being that it does not actually outperform the previous generation Geforce 7600 GT by a wide margin ie. only average of 20 percent improvement in framerates in most games (though it operates at a much higher resolution), and is actually, in some games, slightly slower or on par with the 7600 GT.[citation needed] It's generally about as fast as a 7800 GT, which in turn doesn't make it faster than a GeForce 7600 GT (or any card of equal range, IE: a GeForce 6800 Ultra, Radeon X1800 GTO, Radeon X850 XT, Radeon X800 XT, or Radeon X1650 XT) by an astounding margin (with the exception of modern games as they come; the 8600 GT is able to pump out a large amount of shader operations with its stream processors running at high shader clocks and is generally better optimized for shader-heavy games, which puts it at a considerable advantage in comparison to the lower 7xxx series and entire 6xxx series, but only in newer or just shader-heavy titles).
Ack, wall of text. But thats where I heard that the 8500 sucks. Anyone else got any suggestions?