Nvidia has definitely been having a few great years and that came to fruition with the GeForce 8800 GT released late October. Of course AMD also brought forth their best graphics cards yet and due to Nvidia being unable to match the price they claimed the 3870 and 3850 are more than stiff competition. Nvidia though has an answer for that as well in their GeForce 8800 GT 256MB video card, taking a swipe at AMD's lowered price offerings. Today we have one of these cards to look at from Leadtek.

As with the normal GeForce 8800 GT the GeForce 8800 GT 256MB is also built off of Nvidia's new 65nm G92 core which shrinks the die reducing cost, power consumption and heat very effectively. As far as specs go the 256MB GeForce 8800 GT is almost identical to the normal GeForce 8800 GT except the RAM. They both feature 112 stream processors, 56/56 texture address filtering, a core clock of 600Mhz with some cards overclocked, shader clock of 1.5GHz or more, although the memory clockspeed in addition to the size is lower coming in at 1.4GHz compared to the 1.8GHz standard on a normal GeForce 8800 GT. Other than that they look very similar, both require a six pin PCI-E power connector,

The hardware accessories included are a DVI-to-VGA adapter, molex PCI-E power adapter, and a component cable for HDTV out. The software bundle included is Neverwinter Nights 2 the full version and CyberLink's PowerDVD 7.Here are the specifications from Leadtek:

• World’s First PCI Express 2.0 GPU Provides Support for Next Generation PC Platforms

• New GeForce 8800 GT GPU delivers the price/performance gamers have been demanding

• GPU/Memory Clock at 600/1800 MHz HDCP capable

• 256MB, 256-bit memory interface for Hi-Res /AA/AF gaming

• Support Dual Dual-Link DVI with awe-inspiring 2560x1600 resolution

• World's first DirectX 10 GPU delivers unparalleled levels of graphics realism and film-quality effects

• Smoothly playback H.264, MPEG-2, VC-1 and WMV video–including WMV HD

• Integrated HDTV encoder