Which is better a 7900GS or 8400M GS - Page 2

8600 Gt > 7900 Gs

In response to original post, it depends on what you mean by which is better. One has DX10, the other doesn't. One is newer and less expensive, but doesn't run games quite as well.

Because I run the 8600M GT in my Asus G1S-A1 notebook, I will discuss that card as a better comparison with the 7900 GS. I consistently get 4000 3dmarks in 3dmark06. My friend has a desktop computer with the 7900GS and he scores lower than I do in benchmarks (though not by a lot). That link http://www.notebookcheck.com/Mobile-...ste.735.0.html is fine, but don't take it to be the exact ranking of how a card is compared to other cards. For what I have seen in actual performance, the 8600 GT outperforms the 7900 GS.

My brother runs the desktop version of the XFX 8600 GT (DDR3, just like my mobile version). He picked it up for $109 off of zipzoomfly, and it came with a free copy of Company of Heroes! To me, that makes its value much better than that of the 7900 GS, which costs $70 more. I will ask him for his benchmark scores.

And as for real game performance, I thought that my comp would be able to play CoH better at 1920x1200 resolutions, so I was a little sad to see that I had to turn some things down to get 30-50fps. But then I saw how my friend's 8800 GTS did in CoH and we were running the same settings and resolutions and the game looked about the same. So I'm plenty happy with the performance, and I would never go back to a 7900 card.

I don't know anyone running dual SLI 8600 GTs, so I can't say about that, but the single 8600 GTs run great when compared to the 7900 GS. For now, when the 8600 GT is one of the top cards to fit in a 15" notebook, I'm plenty happy with it.

That is my humble opinion,
Ransom

Desktops are a different category all together lol. FYI for those that don't know, we do have a Desktop section. It is located under the off-topic discussion board.

This is an understatement. The 7900 would PWN so bad that the 8400 would detach itself from your computer, repackage itself in its original casing, and ship itself to its original home, which is a garbage disposal.

I agree with you there, but it's nice to find out how they compare with each other. If the 8600 GT scores the same on the desktop, or the increase is small, it would be nice to know.

*shrug*

Ransom

at least in benchmarks, the laptop 8600gt performs similarly to a desktop 8500gt, which is pretty pitiful. The desktop 8600s are MUCH better than the laptop 8600s

take 3DMark scores w/ a grain of salt.

FYI The "hidden" desktop section of the boards is here:

http://www.notebookforums.com/forum57.html

Yes please visit the desktop section people, 10 members involved is sad and pitiful

Also, I dunno what the friend is doing with the 8800GTS desktop edition that he is getting only 30-50fps at the same settings as the 8600GT my 320mb version even handles crysis on mostly high @ 1280x800 or so

the 7900gs would be the better choice vs. the 8400, 8600, or 8700gthe 7900gs has a TON of overclocking potential that would make it much better then the 8 series. Plus, Dx10 games are gonna run like crap with any of the 8 series anyways, they just aren't powerful enough.

lol, i posted that after reading the first page. i didn't realize there was a second page...it made more sense after reading the last post on the first page...

my friend has the 7900 gs go's running in sli and they run just as well as my friend who has two desktop 8600 gt's in sli soo....

Yah I think anyone considering an "8" series SLi setup should stick with the 8800 series. Anything less isn't worth it in terms of performance.

I agree with that statement