Introduction

On October 2007, nVidia introduced, for the first time, a card based on their new G92 GPU, the 8800 GT, that was placed slightly above the 8800 GTS. The card was suddenly launched with a very competitive price, decisively lower than the 8800 GTS but offering better performances, and it allowed nVidia to sell very well, especially because its main rival, ATI, didn’t have any cards that could compete with it.

Around Christmas, nVidia decided to duplicate the 8800 GT’s success, launching a model called 8000 GTS 512 MB. The GPU used on that model was the same used on the GT, the G92, integrating all the 128 Stream Processors yet keeping the crossbar at 256 bit in order to lower the production costs. The 8800 GTS 512MB was very similar to the top cards such as 8800 GTX and Ultra, making it a good choice since it cost 50% less than the top line cards.

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