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NVIDIA's AGP Only GeForce 7800 GS

Date: February 2nd, 2006
Topic: Video Card
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Author: Derek Wilson

Battlefield 2 Performance

The performance of the 7800 GS AGP is very strong in Battlefield 2. This is the one game where the X850 XT PE truly falls behind the new AGP 7 series part. NVIDIA's lead is not a big one in this game, but it's there, and that's definitely a good thing for a cheaper part.

Clearly, the PCIe cards dominate our AGP lineup. The bottom line is that the bleeding edge in performance is simply not available on older platforms. Cards like the X850 XT PE, and now the 7800 GS are the best an AGP user is going to do.

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93 Comments - Last by spinportal, 1393 days ago

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page 2 typo: by artifex, 1468 days ago

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Certainly getting parts out to physical locations anywhere near a lunch is a great thing

Maybe; do those chips come with DIPs? :)

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RE: page 2 typo: by Cygni, 1468 days ago

Beat me to it. :D

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RE: page 2 typo: by DerekWilson, 1468 days ago

Gotta love those crazy typos that OpenOffice.org doesn't catch for me. Fixed.

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AGP by kalaap, 1468 days ago

I think its great that nvidia and ati are still releasing AGP parts. I've beeen planning on replacing my 9700pro so I like having so choices even if its very limited.

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. by Cygni, 1468 days ago

Im a little bit dissapointed, overall. While I guess the 850XTPE is a pretty lofty card to try to beat, i was hoping for a little more power from this piece, to keep my AGP rig alive a little longer. :D

Might have been a good idea to compare AGP and PCI-Ex versions of this card on the same board with a ASRock 939Dual-SATA2. I know weve gone over that terriroty before, but it would have still been interesting to me to see it again using this higher end part that likely would take a little bigger hit going through the HSI bridge. Just an idea.

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RE: . by DerekWilson, 1468 days ago

To be very clear -- in case the title didn't sink in :-)

The 7800 GS will not have a PCI Express counterpart. This is an AGP only card.

The engineering sample we tested last year was simply that and will never be anything more. There are a few differences as well, so a direct comparison isn't really possible.

Thanks,
Derek Wilson

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RE: . by Cygni, 1468 days ago

Doh, didnt get that the PCI-Ex version was NEVER coming out. Just thought it was coming out later. I read the title more as "NVIDIA's AGP Only VERSION of the 6800 GS" Im a jerk-face. My bad. :D

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RE: . by Cygni, 1468 days ago

PS, throwing in the engineering sample would have still been pretty interesting, for me at least. :)

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RE: . by gooser, 1468 days ago

Or maybe, better yet....the 6800 GS agp? Those two would be the one of the top choices for an AGP upgrade.

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SM3 path in SC? by fl0w, 1468 days ago

did you compare SC with SM1.1 path or did you run it on 3.0 for the Geforce?
Didn't see it written somewhere so I thought I ask, because it would make a big difference....

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