Introduction

It wouldn't be stretching the truth to say that XFX are one of the most popular enthusiast GPU manufacturers in the world today and to keep this status, they have to continually release exciting new products. The hot product in the green camp at the moment is the 8800GT, so guess which card we have from XFX?

About XFX

XFX dares to go where the competition would like to, but can't. That's because, at XFX, we don't just create great digital video components--we build all-out, mind-blowing, performance crushing, competition-obliterating video cards and motherboards. Oh, and not only are they amazing, you don't have to live on dry noodles and peanut butter to afford them.

XFX is a division of PINE Technologies, a leading manufacturer of state-of-the-art processing components.

Features

• 8800 Series single slot solution
  
• PCI Express® 2.0 support
  
• Increased to 112 Stream Processors
  
• NVIDIA® Unified architecture with GigaThread™ technology
  
• Full Microsoft® DirectX® 10 Shader Model 4.0 support.
  
• NVIDIA SLI™-Ready
  
• 16x full-screen anti-aliasing
  
• True 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range(HDR) lighting
  
• NVIDIA Quantum Effects™ physics processing technology
  
• Two dual-link DVI outputs support two 2560x1600 resolution displays
  
• NVIDIA PureVideo™technology®
  
• OpenGL® 2.0 support
  
• Nvidia ForceWare® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
  
• Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™
  

Specifications

The G92

The 8800GT was codenamed G92 and is the first NVIDIA card to transition to a 65nm manufacturer process; GTX and Ultra cards of the same series are 90nm and 86XX cards are 80nm. It still features the same unified shader architecture as previous 8 series cards, but due to the size reduction, the power needs of the card are reduced, and by proxy its heat output, meaning that a single slot cooler will suffice; and perhaps even a quiet one during loaded operation. It is also the first NVIDIA card to make the jump to PCI-e 2.0 and one of the first to have the PureVideo 2.0 chip which adds a Bitstream processor and enhanced video processor to completely offload AACS-decryption and H.264 decoding.