MSI Overclocked GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB Review

3DMark03 simulates DirectX 8 and 9 games. Even though this program may be considered “old”, we ran it to see how the tested video cards perform on older games. Since we are comparing high-end cards, we ran this program in higher resolutions, as performance difference between high-end video cards is more expressive on such resolutions. We chose three resolutions, 1600x1200, 1920x1440 and 2048x1536. At each resolution we simulated two scenarios, first with no image quality enhancements enabled (this scenario we called “low”) and then with anti-aliasing set at 4x and anisotropic filtering set at 16x (this scenario we called “high”). The results you check below. All video cards listed below were running with the default clock rates defined by the chip manufacturer, except MSI GeForce 8800 GTS “OC”, which is the reviewed model with its default overclocked settings.

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 1600x1200 Score Difference

GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX) 22565 32.56%

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) - OC 17022

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) 15392 10.59%

GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis) 14387 18.32%

GeForce 7900 GT (XFX) 12020 41.61%

GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX) 11744 44.94%

Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor) 11243 51.40%

GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia) 10278 65.62%

MSI GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB Overclocked

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 1920x1440 Score Difference

GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX) 18351 37.86%

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) - OC 13311

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) 12081 10.18%

GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis) 11287 17.93%

GeForce 7900 GT (XFX) 9437 41.05%

GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX) 9245 43.98%

Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor) 8731 52.46%

GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia) 8018 66.01%

MSI GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB Overclocked

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 2048x1536 Score Difference

GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX) 16953 35.68%

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) - OC 12495

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) 11327 10.31%

GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis) 10348 20.75%

GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX) 8386 49.00%

Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor) 7656 63.21%

GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia) 7272 71.82%

GeForce 7900 GT (XFX) 7066 76.83%

MSI GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB Overclocked

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 - 1600x1200 AAx4, AFx16 Score Difference

GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX) 13181 39.99%

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) - OC 9416

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) 8637 9.02%

GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis) 7903 19.14%

GeForce 7900 GT (XFX) 6634 41.94%

GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX) 6422 46.62%

Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor) 6236 50.99%

GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia) 5553 69.57%

MSI Overclocked GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 1920x1440 AAx4, AFx16 Score Difference

GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX) 10231 37.66%

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) - OC 7432

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) 6535 13.73%

GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis) 6037 23.11%

Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor) 4765 55.97%

GeForce 7900 GT (XFX) 4637 60.28%

GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX) 4467 66.38%

GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia) 3850 93.04%

MSI GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB Overclocked

3DMark03 Professional Edition 3.6.0 – 2048x1536 AAx4, AFx16 Score Difference

GeForce 7950 GX2 (XFX) 9235 53.94%

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) - OC 5999

GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB (MSI) 5494 9.19%

GeForce 7950 GT (Zogis) 5409 10.91%

GeForce 7900 GT (XFX) 4187 43.28%

Radeon X1950 Pro (PowerColor) 4091 46.64%

GeForce 7800 GTX (XFX) 4030 48.86%

GeForce 7800 GT (nVidia) 3470 72.88%