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NVIDIA GeForce: Graphics Processors

GeForce Graphics Processors

Whether you're a no-holds-barred gamer, a video enthusiast, a new Microsoft® Windows Vista™ adopter, or a digital photography aficionado, there's an NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics processor that fits your lifestyle.

GeForce product family:

200 Series
GeForce GTX 280
GeForce GTX 260
 9 Series
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce 9800 GTX+
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 9800 GT
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 9600 GSO
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 9400 GT
 8 Series
GeForce 8800 GTS
GeForce 8800 GT
GeForce 8600 GTS
GeForce 8600 GT

Find the GeForce Graphics Processor that's ideal for you, using our charts below:

Usage Technologies
  GeForce
GTX 200
GeForce GTX 200		 GeForce
9800
GeForce 9800 GX2		 GeForce
8800
GeForce 8800 GTX		 GeForce
9600
GeForce 9600 GT		 GeForce
8600
GeForce 8600 GTS		 GeForce
8500
GeForce 8500 GT
Type of PC User Extreme Gamer, Technology Enthusiast Extreme Gamer, Technology Enthusiast Gamer, Video Enthusiast Gamer, Video Enthusiast Video/Photo/Web User, Gamer Video/Photo/Web User, Gamer
Gaming Performance vs. Integrated Graphics3 N/A 22x4 18x 15x44 13x 5x
Microsoft DirectX DirectX 10 DirectX 10 DirectX 10 DirectX 10 DirectX 10 DirectX 10
Photos/ Office Apps/Web Surfing Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent
DVD Movie Playback Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent
HD DVD/
Blu-ray Playback5		 Excellent Excellent Excellent6 Excellent Excellent Excellent
Excellent: Excellent        Good: Good        Satisfactory: Satisfactory

1 PC Mark 2006 systems benchmark - overall system benchmark performance between Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3000 (i965G) and NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS. Tested on Intel 3.2GHz CPU, 1048MB DDR RAM, Windows XP SP1.

2 GeForce 8 Series Graphics processors only.

3 Performance benchmarks run on 3D Mark 06 system using Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor X6800, Intel® G965 Express chipset, 2GB of system memory, running on Windows XP Pro SP2. Drivers: NVIDIA® ForceWare® 101.60, Intel 6.14.10.4704. Performance numbers reference the highest card in the family.

4 Performance measured with 3DMark®06 and the following system configuration: Intel® Core™2 Extreme Processor X6800, Intel® G965 Express chipset, 2GB of system memory, running on Windows Vista® Enterprise 32-bit. Drivers: NVIDIA® GeForce® Driver version 169.13, Intel Driver version 7.14.10.1364.

5 There are additional PC system requirements necessary to playback Blu-ray and HD DVD titles including a HD/BD drive and a 3rd party software player. Rating is based on ability to offload the CPU during playback of high bitrate H.264 HD/BD titles and video quality scored by the HD HQV benchmark. (For more information on HQV, please visit http://www.hqv.com/benchmark.cfm).

6 HD DVD / Blu-ray Video Playback on NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB and 8800 GT is classified as Excellent. HD DVD / Blu-ray Video Playback on NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra, GeForce 8800 GTX and GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB/640MB are classified as Good.