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Nvidia has a history of just sitting out their performance lead, see Geforce 8800 vs Geforce 9800. Even in the initially released marketing material, by Nvidia
by freeflight 8y ago
Nvidia has a history of just sitting out their performance lead, see Geforce 8800 vs Geforce 9800.
Even in the initially released marketing material, by Nvidia, the 8800 GTX had the obviously way better raw specs than the 9800 GTX. Took them a couple of days until they changed the material to compare on performance % in different games.
But the 9800 GTX was actually a slower card than the one year older 8800 GTX due to lower memory bandwidth and capacity. As such it was competing against one generation older mid-range cards like the 8800 GTS 512.