Graphics Geforce 9800 GT vs 8800 GT - Similar price!

Hi all,
Up until now I was planning to buy this for my new rig:
BFG GeForce 8800 GT OC 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail @ £111.

Thing is, I just noticed Scan have a bunch of 9800 gt's coming in, for similar, or even lower, prices! Such as "512MB XFX 9800 GT, PCI-E 2.0 (x16), 1800MHz GDDR3, GPU 600MHz, 112 Cores, 2xDL DVI-I/ HDTV"

Am I missing something here? Why are the 9800 gt and 8800 gt cards the same price? What should I go for?

TIA!

 

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/07/11/summer-2008-graphics-performance-roundup/8

8800 GT vs 9800GTX and GTX+ The performance difference isn't much to write home about,try google for some benchmarks or see if bit-tech look at one (i'd look but i have to go eat :s ) but I can't see them beasting the 8800GT by more than a few fps, granted 9fps to 16fps might make some things playable, but nvidia probably need to pull a rabbit out the hat as the 4850 / 70 are the cards to go for at the moment, so maybe the 9800GT will buck this trend and provide a worthwhile step up from a 8800GT?

I would wait and buy a 9800GT though, it's performance will match or exceed the 8800GT's, for 8800GT owners it will probably not be worth the money to upgrade to one

edit: or buy a ATI 4850/4870, how the 9800GT performs against them is more interesting than how it compares to the 8800GT

 

As far as I can tell, the 9800GT is just an overclocked 8800GT and is actually slower than the BFG overclocked 8800GT that B-T reviewed recently.
So that is why they are a similar price.
And why don't you get an AMD 4850? they are a similar price, maybe £10 and are faster.

edit: in response to the comment above, I can't see the 9800GT doing anything particularly interesting as it still has the 112 stream processors of the 8800GT

 

One would presume it would be at least clocked higher, rather than just sticking a new sticker on the 8800GT and ta dar

 

It is, however the overclock is lower that the BFG overclock of the 8800GT

 

The 9800GT is actually a 88Gt but wtih the newer Purevideo and other hardware accelerated video options, performance wise its exactly the same as the 88GT.
Still no HDMI audio with Nvidia cards, shame.

 

i thought that the 9800GT was in fact an 8800GT with Hybrid power support (something all of the 9 series support) but i could eb wrong.

Same clocks as a 8800GT for core, memory and also same number of SPs, so the only difference would be this new support for Hbrid power.

 

Tell that to my xpertvision 8800gt Link

 

Interesting

I'm going for nVidia due to their Linux support mainly, I will be dual booting... Sounds like it doesn't really matter which I go for then as I'm looking at the BFG OC / OC2 cards anyway... thanks all!