Conclusions - Part 1

After having tested the performances on the 8600 series cards, the first thing we’ve noticed is the huge gap between a 8600 GTS and a 8800GTS, something unusual for two similar cards. But in any case, the 8600 series deserve a positive note for the work done by nVIDIA, making the DX10 market available to most with this medium-entry card that supports all the high-entry features such as Shader Model 4.0, Anti-Aliasing 16x and VP.

Still on the performance level, it’s worth mentioning that nVIDIA has given much freedom to the different brands to customize their cards as they wish, which brings a bigger array of choices to the customers when it comes to price and performance.