What graphics card is better?

Im upgrading my pc and im not sure what graphics card i should get. The 2 in my price range ar the Geforce 8500GT and the 8600GT. some say the 8500GT is better and some say the 8600GT is better. not sure which will be better in the long run.

Thanks in advanced

Answer:
I don't know who told you that the 8500 is faster than the 8600.

The 8600 is designed to be a mid level graphics card and costs about $150. The 8500 is designed to be a budget level graphics card and costs about $90.

Just based on features, clock speed, and pipelines, it's clear that the 8600 is faster.
Obviously the 8600 is better - generally a bigger bandwidth and you should get faster framerates than the 8500. However, it depends what you're going to be using it for - I only really play World of Warcraft and my 8600GT is definite overkill!
The number that denote the name of the graphic card, 8500, 8600, 8800 reflects the performance of the graphic card in relative to each other

The larger the number is, the better the performance is compare to the one with a smaller number. Simple as that.

8600GT is the better one in terms of performance.
i got 8600 last week and now i think it sucks

can you get any 8800 in anyway

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