Today we are checking out the newly released ASUS Extreme N8800GT 1GB graphics card to see if increasing the 512MB of memory featured on the original version to 1GB helps improve performance. Not only does this new version score an insane amount of memory but it also boasts a much improved cooling solution...

It would seem that loading a GeForce 8800 GT graphics card with more than 512MB of memory is rather pointless, though I suspect Nvidia was well aware of this when they announced that there would be a 1GB version of the 8800 GT. This is very much like those Radeon HD 2600XT and GeForce 8600 GTS graphics cards that come with 512MB of memory rather just 256MB of memory which is all they need. The 512MB 8600 GTS and 2600XT cards were really just gimmicks and that is all the 1GB 8800 GT is in our opinion as we never saw any kind of performance advantage to having the extra memory.



Link: Legion Hardware