Graphics 8800 GTS 320mb.... or is it?

Right then a friend of mine has just picked up a 8800 GTS "320mb" for www.cex.co.uk (Tottingham court road shop) he installed it fine and everything with the latest nvidia drivers (on vista) and about 4 apps all report his card a 640mb (these being atitool, rivertuner, windows DXDaig) as well as 3D mark 06.

So to attempt to get to the bottom of this; I'm asking all you 8800 320mb gts owners(and tim ) does it also report the card as a 640 mb card in these apps - being some kind of driver bug or has my friend just got very lucky ?

-Fr4nk

 

He's not the only one. Someone in hardware said the same thing.

 

Just consider yourself lucky
Brings me back to the days of flashing cards bios to make them perform like a much more expensive card.

 

Yup, get one and check the sticker - there seem to be a few of these going round atm. That's the only way to know 100% though.

 

any ideas

Has the card got 640mb if the sticker on the back of the graphic card says 320mb.
Even though it says in all the programs it is 640mb

 

Best way would be to fire up a game or benchmark in which the 8800GTS_320MB has a distinct perf deficit to the 640MB version; eg. F.E.A.R. 1600x1200 4xAA+16xAF Max Quality where the 320MB version drops to 7950GT/7900GTX levels (while the 640MB version is at X1950XTX levels). If you can find someone (or a review) with a similar setup to yours you could work out from the all important real-world benchmarks whether it has 640MB. For reference C2D @3.0ghz & 2GB with FEAR's built-in "test settings" benchmark gets around 45fps (320MB) and 60fps (640MB).

 

is there another way

is there another way like using a program etc

 

There are plenty of programs which report your gfx card's memory but people don't know how reliable these are esp with such a new card like the 8800GTS_320MB. Some programs are DXdiag, 3Dmark05/06 Analysis Tool, Aida32, Everest Home Edition, SiSoft Sandra and RivaTuner. Whether a program reports 320MB, 640MB or 40GB is less relevant than what happens when you actually fire up a game.

 

help

is there any otherway without having to test games because dont have fear

 

Isn't there a demo version somewhere.

The answer is yes: http://browse.files.filefront.com/F...con+Official+Demos/;1365769;/browsefiles.html

 

The other problem for him is that his screen will only do up to 1440 x 900 (if you guys haven't figured out yet, my "fiend" is sir_noddy ^^) which makes comparing other bench's/ game FPS's rather difficult...

 

how cramped is space in his case? cant he just take the side panel off and have a gander at the last part of the product number on the sticker on the underside of the card?

 

lol, He did say that it had a 320mb sticker on it (post #5) a bit hard to understand though...

 

I thought the miss reading was something to do with the way vista assigned RAM?

 

Following up from this, he's now checked in xp and t also says 640mb in all the above apps....

 

hmmm, sorry I missed this thread. Things have been a bit mental the last few days. Sounds like you've got a 640MB card there, as I'm pretty sure all of the 320MB versions we've got/had report as 320MB cards in Windows.

 

look, since im such a nice guy, i will buy it from him, and if it is indeed a 640 mb version, i will send it back to the vendor and let them know the error and to please sell this card for the 640 mb price....