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Gigabyte GV-NX88T512HP(8800GT) & GV-RX387512H(HD3870)

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Posted on Mar 3, 2008, 7:00 AM UTC by Wes Patison
Gigabyte GV-NX88T512HP(8800GT) & GV-RX387512H(HD3870)
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Specifications&Features

 

Specifications&Features

Taken from GIGABYTES'S website ...

 







   GV-NX88T512HP
  1. Powered by GeForce 8800 GT GPU
  2. Supports PCI Express 2.0
  3. Microsoft DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.0 support
  4. Integrated with the industry's best 512MB GDDR3 memory and 256-bit memory interface
  5. Supports SLI and PureVideo HD technology
  6. Features dual DVI-I / D-sub


 


 Overview
 
    65nm Process Technology
Delivers higher performance through blazing clock rates.
   

Ultra Durable 2 -Designed with Top Quality Highly Efficient Components

Ultra Durable 2
Using high quality components on graphics cards is the key factor for having a long lasting, stable and reliable product. GIGABYTE is again setting a new standard by using Ferrite Core Chokes, Low RDS (on) MOSFET and Lower ESR Solid Capacitors, providing the stability and reliability from their high-end graphics solution. In addition, GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 2 Edition graphics cards now feature a sophisticated layout topology. This state-of-the-art power design from GIGABYTE delivers the ideal integration of thermal, electric characteristics, digital signals, power circuitry and optimum placement of components for enhanced graphics performance.


Ultra Cooling - Low RDS(on) MOSFET Design





Low Power Loss - Ferrite Core Choke Design






Longer Life - All-Solid Capacitor Design

  Gamer HUD
GIGABYTE Gamer HUD™ (Heads Up Display) software utility is specially designed to allow hardcore gaming enthusiasts to tweak the highest levels of performance from their VGA card. GIGABYTE’s Gamer HUD™ utility features Voltage Gear Overdrive, the world’s first software solution that allows voltage adjusting purely though software control. With multi-level GPU voltage control settings, users are able to squeeze the highest amount of performance from their cards. GIGABYTE’s Gamer HUD™ utility also supports adjusting of GPU clock, shader and memory settings, for maximum overclocking performance.
In addition, GIGABYTE’s Gamer HUD™ provides advanced power savings through its auto-optimized 2D/3D GPU frequency switching feature. When enabling 2D applications such as email, web browsing and media playback, the GPU frequency is lowered to 2D mode allowing the graphics card to save power consumption. For more graphics intensive applications such as gaming and 3D rendering, the 3D switch is activated, raising the GPU frequency to allow for the greatest level of performance. GIGABYTE’s 2D/3D switch can be set on Auto-Optimized Mode (Enable) or Customizable Mode (Disable), according to users’ preference.
Features & Benefits:
  • VGA Tweaking Utility Providing the Best Combination of Software/Hardware OC.
  • eXtreme Graphics Overdrive – World’s 1st VGA Card Voltage Adjusting software utility.
  • Delivers 10% and greater performance enhancement after overclocking.
  •   RoHS Compliant
    As a citizen of the global village, GIGABYTE exert ourselves to be a pioneer in environment care. Give the whole of Earth a promise that our products do not contain any of the restricted substances in concentrations and applications banned by the RoHS Directive, and are capable of being worked on at the higher temperatures required for lead free solder. One Earth and GIGABYTE Cares!
        Dual-link DVI
    Able to drive two of the industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600.
        CineFX 4.0 Engine
    Through CineFX 4.0 engine that allows developers to create unique 3D game features and effects in both game animation and high-definition video. Gamers can get plus benefit from CineFX 4.0 that streamlines the creation of complex visual effects.
        Intellisample™ 4.0
    The industry's fastest antialiasing delivers ultra-realistic visuals, with no jagged edges, at lightning-fast speeds. Visual quality is taken to new heights through a new rotated grid sampling pattern, advanced 128 Tap sample coverage, 16x anisotropic filtering, and support for transparency supersampling and multisampling.
        OpenGL 2.0® Optimizations and Support
    Ensure top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL 2.0 application.
        Microsoft® DirectX® 10
    World's first DirectX 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers unparalleled levels of graphics realims and film-quality effects.
        PCI-E 2.0
    PCI Express® 2.0 –Now you are ready for the most demanding graphics applications thanks to PCI Express® 2.0 support, which allows up to twice the throughput of current PCI Express® cards. Doubles the bus standard's bandwidth from 2.5 Gbit/s (PCIe 1.1) to 5 Gbit/sec.
      HDCP Support
    High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a form of copy protection technology designed to prevent transmission of non-encrypted high-definition content as it travels across DVI or HDMI digital connections.
        GigaThread™ Technology
    Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.
        Quantum Effects™ Technology
    Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation enable a new level of physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU--all while freeing the CPU to run the game engine and AI.
      PureVideo™ HD
    Available on HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs, high-definition movies are bringing an exciting new video experience to PC users. NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD technology lets you enjoy cinematic-quality HD DVD and Blu-ray movies with low CPU utilization and power consumption, allowing higher quality movie playback and picture clarity. PureVideo HD technology provides a combination of powerful hardware acceleration, content security, and integration with movie players, plus all the features found in PureVideo.
      Turbo Force Technology
    GIGABYTE's proprietary Turbo Force technology that comprises T3 technology and V-tuner2 overclocking application. T3 technology comprises a series of performance tuning process that ensure maximum stability and enhance over 10% performance.
    * Performance Assurance Tuning: By using a special verification process to make sure the card maintains excellent performance during tough environmental conditions.
    * Stability Tuning: Unique process to measure the chip feature of the GPU and leave enough margin to assure Stability.
    * Power Optimization Tuning: Set the best power balance for the selected clock to enhance product stability and avoid overheating.
        Display Support
    *Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 75Hz.
    *Dual-link DVI capability to drive the industry's largest and highest resolution digital flat panel displays up to 2560x1600 at 60 Hz.
    *Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution.... more information

     

     



       GV-RX387512H
    1. Powered by Radeon HD 3870 GPU
    2. Supports PCI Express 2.0
    3. Microsoft DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 2.0 support
    4. Integrated with the industry's best 512MB GDDR3 memory and 256-bit memory interface
    5. Supports CrossFireX™ and Avivo™HD technology
    6. Features dual DVI-I / D-sub / HDMI / HDCP


     


     Overview
     
      55nm Technology
    Faster clocks, double the transistor density of earlier 65 nm technology. 55nm technology helped make HD3800 series products the most advanced GPUs ever highest clocks speeds, incredible feature integration, full performance and precision all the time, and ability to take advantage of future, higher-speed memories.
       

    Ultra Durable 2 -Designed with Top Quality Highly Efficient Components

    Ultra Durable 2
    Using high quality components on graphics cards is the key factor for having a long lasting, stable and reliable product. GIGABYTE is again setting a new standard by using Ferrite Core Chokes, Low RDS (on) MOSFET and Lower ESR Solid Capacitors, providing the stability and reliability from their high-end graphics solution. In addition, GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 2 Edition graphics cards now feature a sophisticated layout topology. This state-of-the-art power design from GIGABYTE delivers the ideal integration of thermal, electric characteristics, digital signals, power circuitry and optimum placement of components for enhanced graphics performance.


    Ultra Cooling - Low RDS(on) MOSFET Design





    Low Power Loss - Ferrite Core Choke Design






    Longer Life - All-Solid Capacitor Design

        Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1
    The power of DirectX® 10.1 with awesome performance, stunning visual effects, and more dynamic interactivity than ever before.Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all DirectX® 10.1 applications. Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 games, with stunning 3D graphics and shading effects.
        Shader Model 4.1
    Shader Model 4.1 adds support for indexed temporaries which can be quite useful for certain tasks.Regular direct temporary access is preferable is most cases. One reason is that indexed temporaries are hard to optimize. The shader optimizer may not be able to identify optimizations across indexed accesses that could otherwise have been detected. Furthermore, indexed temporaries tend to increase register pressure a lot. An ordinary shader that contains for instance a few dozen variables will seldom consume a few dozen temporaries in the end but is likely to be optimized down to a handful depending on what the shader does. This is because the shader optimizer can easily track all variables and reuse registers. This is typically not possible for indexed temporaries, thus the register pressure of the shader may increase dramatically. This could be detrimental to performance as it reduces the hardware’s ability to hide latencies.
        OpenGL 2.0® Optimizations and Support
    Ensure top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL 2.0 application.
        Dual-link DVI
    Dual-link DVI supports any combination of digital and analog display, and independent resolution and refresh rate selection for any two connected displays. Dual Link technology doubles the display bandwidth through a single DVI connection to support ultra-high resolution output and significantly increase productivity.
      ATI CrossFireX
    Upgrade to even greater 3D performance quickly and easily thanks to plug-and-play ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU technology...more information
        PCI-E 2.0
    PCI Express® 2.0 –Now you are ready for the most demanding graphics applications thanks to PCI Express® 2.0 support, which allows up to twice the throughput of current PCI Express® cards. Doubles the bus standard's bandwidth from 2.5 Gbit/s (PCIe 1.1) to 5 Gbit/sec.
      RoHS Compliant
    As a citizen of the global village, GIGABYTE exert ourselves to be a pioneer in environment care. Give the whole of Earth a promis that our products do not contain any of the restricted substances in concentrations and applications banned by the RoHS Directive, and are capable of being worked on at the higher temperatures required for lead free solder. One Earth and GIGABYTE Cares!
        HDCP Support
    High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a form of copy protection technology designed to prevent transmission of non-encrypted high-definition content as it travels across DVI or HDMI digital connections.
        HDMI Ready
    High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a new interface standard for consumer electronics devices that combines HDCP-protected digital video and audio into a single, consumer-friendly connector.
      Windows Vista™
    Enjoy powerful graphics performance, improved stability, and an immersive HD gaming experience for Windows Vista. ATI Catalyst™ software is designed for quick setup of graphics, video, and multiple displays, and automatically configures optimal system settings for lifelike DirectX 10 gaming and the visually stunning Windows Aero™ user interface.
        Display Support
    *Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for analog display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz .
    *Dual-link DVI capability to drive the industry's largest and highest resolution digital flat panel displays up to 2560x1600 at 60 Hz.
    *Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution.... more information
        ATI Avivo HD
    ATI Avivo HD continues to provide brilliant colors, sharp images, smooth playback of Blu-ray™ and HD DVD content, and now adds enhanced connectivity through DisplayPort™, HDMI with built-in multi-channel digital audio, and on some GPUs, Unified Video Decoding (UVD). UVD is designed to enable a cool and quiet media PC with low GPU and CPU power requirements and playback of full HD 1080p content.

     

    Well that's it for the company line on both cards. Let's take a look at some pictures to see just how good these cards look. 

     

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