Testbed
Motherboard:
Nforce 680i EVGA board (Supplied by EVGA)
CPU:
Intel Core 2 Duo 6800 Extreme edition (Supplied by Intel)
CPU Cooler:
Akasa EVO AK 922 Blue Athlon 64/X2/FX cooler and Intel CPU's (Supplied by Akasa)
Memory:
OCZ Reaper PC2-8500 1066MHz 5-5-5-15 (Supplied by OCZ)
CL5-5-5-15-CR2T at 2.3V
Graphics card:
BFG 8600GTS OC2 (Supplied by BFG)
Gainward Geforce 8600GTS (Supplied by Gainward)
PSU:
OCZ GameXStream 700W (Supplied by OCZ)
Hard disk:
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 500GB SATA (Supplied by Seagate)
Testing
BFG Geforce 8600GTS OC2 is an over-clocked card running at core 720MHz, and 2220MHz memory speed. To this point we've tested a number of 8600GTS, but none of them had Shaders running at high 1566MHz. All that plus the ThermoIntelligence cooler made BFG a hero among Geforce 8600GTS graphics cards.
We put the BFG card against Nvidias reference 8600GTS card, and also with powerful Gainward Geforce 8600GTS 512MB. Both cards run at reference speed.
Talking about speed, we clocked our BFG Geforce 8600GTS OC2 card a 100MHz more than reference speed. 775MHz for the core is quite a good result. Memory running at 1110MHz is already peaking but we managed to squeeze 30MHz more.
3DMarks
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Composite Figures 3Dmark 03 |
3DMark 03 |
Game2 |
Game3 |
Game4 |
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8600GTS reference 675/2000MHz |
17566 |
133.0 |
101.4 |
110.1 |
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Gainward 8600GTS 675/2016MHz 512MB |
20340 |
152.9 |
120.5 |
135.8 |
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BFG 8600GTS OC2 720/2220MHz |
21626 |
164.0 |
128.4 |
144.4 |
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Composite Figures 3Dmark 03 |
Single Texturinng |
Multi Textur. |
Vertex Shader |
Pixel Shader 2.0 |
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8600GTS reference 675/2000MHz |
2638.5 |
7434.6 |
59.0 |
227.7 |
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Gainward 8600GTS 675/2016MHz 512MB |
2688.2 |
8808.0 |
67.0 |
276.0 |
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BFG 8600GTS OC2 720/2220MHz |
2868.4 |
9438.4 |
71.1 |
296.1 |
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Scoring 21626 marks, BFG Geforce 8600GTS OC2 is 23% faster than reference card which scored 17566 marks. Although Gainward 8600GTS has 512MB of memory, BFG cards core and memory speed played a decisive role.
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Composite Figures 3Dmark 05 |
3DMark 05 |
Game1 |
Game2 |
Game3 |
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8600GTS reference 675/2000MHz |
11407 |
48.0 |
36.1 |
54.9 |
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Gainward 8600GTS 675/2016MHz 512MB |
12408 |
54.0 |
38.0 |
59.5 |
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BFG 8600GTS OC2 720/2220MHz |
13093 |
56.3 |
40.2 |
63.4 |
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Composite Figures 3Dmark 05 |
Single Texturinng |
Multi Textur. |
Pixel Shader |
VS/VS |
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8600GTS reference 675/2000MHz |
2723.5 |
8094.5 |
179.5 |
117.2/123.9 |
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Gainward 8600GTS 675/2016MHz 512MB |
2721.6 |
9108.9 |
188.6 |
143.9/131.5 |
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BFG 8600GTS OC2 720/2220MHz |
2901.1 |
9752.5 |
201.5 |
138.0/138.9 |
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In 3Dmark05 however, the difference is significantly lower than in the previous test and it shows 14.8%. Thanks to 512MB of memory, Gainward wins in Vertex Shader test, and we see a good score of 12408 marks in the final score of 3Dmark 05 test.
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Composite Figures 3Dmark 06 |
3DMark 06 |
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8600GTS referenc 675/2000MHz |
5513 |
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Gainward 8600GTS 675/2016MHz 512MB |
5890 |
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BFG 8600GTS OC2 720/2220MHz |
6292 |
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BFG 8600GTS OC2 750/2220MHz |
6426 |
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BFG 8600GTS OC2 760/2220MHz |
6444 |
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BFG 8600GTS OC2 775/2220MHz |
6541 |
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BFG 8600GTS OC2 775/2280MHz |
6601 |
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SM2.0 Test |
Score |
GT1 |
GT2 |
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8600GTS referenc 675/2000MHz |
2287 |
17.655 |
20.470 |
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Gainward 8600GTS 675/2016MHz 512MB |
2469 |
19.311 |
21.842 |
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