The Radeon HD 3850 was too good a graphics card in it's price range for nVidia not to give an answer to. The 8800GS gets to be that answer and (despite it's name) the substitute to the 8600GT in the ever so important market of the mainstream GPUs. It's a very similar situation to the one we faced when the 7900GS came out, it's direct competitor was the 7600GT and the next generation was just around the corner. Now, nVidia repeats the move by launching a card that will get replaced when the 9600GT starts being sold just a few weeks from now.

What you have here is basically a 8800GT with almost every spec turned down. The only characteristic that doesn't get axed is the memory bus at 192 bits. Core and memory frequency will be around those of the 8800GT (600/1800 MHz).

Only three games and 3DMark are tested, but against the slower version of the 8800GS (575/1700 MHz), the performance card from nVidia only edges the new offering by 26.97%. That's not much, looking at the price difference.

Link: Expreview.

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