We have seen that the 8800GT cards performed very well under various games. Let's now see how well the cards handle the newest released games, like Crysis. The Crysis demo showed that even with all details set at HIGH, the game is playable at 1280x1024, without of course any AA/AF enabled. Both cards had almost the same performance. Rather interesting is that the 8800GT SLI performed worse than a single 8800GT card. We assume that this issue comes from the beta driver that we've used to test the graphics cards.

In Half Life 2 Episode 2, without any AA mode enabled, the 8800GT cards produced almost twice the framerate of the 8600GTS cards...

In Lost Planet, the 8800GT SLI showed very good performance, reaching 127FPS average performance. However, no AA mode is enabled so visual quality is considered as average. In the cave test, all cards performed equally well.

Lastly, Unreal Tournament 3 was very playable with an average of 80FPS in all the benchmarks. Again, the 8800GT SLI setup didn't produce very good performance. We maintain the assumption that this problem is due to Nvidia's beta drivers.