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NVIDIA's Tiny 90nm G71 and G73: GeForce 7900 and 7600 Debut

Date: March 9th, 2006
Topic: Video Card
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Author: Derek Wilson

Battlefield 2 High-End Performance

We have finally ironed out our issues with BF2 and SLI, so this time around we get to compare ATI and NVIDIA in multi GPU configurations. DICE has said in the past that results over 100 fps are not always reliable. It will suffice to say that CrossFire leads SLI at the low two resolutions. Putting a finer point on it goes against what we know of the benchmark's behavior. Interestingly, at higher resolutions (above 1600x1200), while the 7900 GTX and 7900 GT fall further behind ATI's single card solutions, SLI is able to take the lead from CrossFire. This would seem to indicate that SLI has a bit more of a CPU limitation at the low end than CrossFire, but that it is ultimately much more efficient in BF2.

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106 Comments - Last by Zoomer, 1348 days ago

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RE: Street Date by DerekWilson, 1352 days ago

check now :-)

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RE: Street Date by allometry, 1352 days ago

Right on! I didn't see any posts for the card earlier, so I figure there might be a week delay.

Too bad NewEgg already lost it's stock on the eVGA 7900GT's :(

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What Drivers Were Used? by 5150Joker, 1352 days ago

This article didn't state which drivers were used either - you'd think after having the cards for a few weeks your editors wouldn't have such obvious oversights.

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by dab, 1352 days ago

So will EVGA send me a 7900gt in the step up program to replace my 6800GS?

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RE: What Drivers Were Used? by DerekWilson, 1352 days ago

I've updated the article with drivers used. I appologize for the omission.

I absolutely do not mean this as an excuse -- drivers should not have been omitted no matter what the case -- but we have had the cards for less than a week. Again, not an excuse, just correcting your assumption.

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RE: What Drivers Were Used? by Cygni, 1352 days ago

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you'd think after having the cards for a few weeks your editors wouldn't have such obvious oversights.

Ya, cause you paid good money to read this review!

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Knock it off by Griswold, 1351 days ago

That one is getting pretty old, its not really an excuse for a site with such high standards.

Besides that, the ads on this page cost my bandwith. ;)

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What's up with the FEAR benches? by munky, 1352 days ago

FEAR is one game where the x1900's have had a big lead over the 7800's, and your results from today just done make sense. How does a x1900xtx get 59fps at 1280x1024, when the gtx512 also get 59 and the 7900gtx ges 63? Comapare it to the results from another site - http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2006q1/geforce-7600-7900/index.x?pg=10. At 1280x960 they place the xtx at 57fps, the 7900gtx at 46, and the gtx512 at 44, which are more inline with the results I have seen before.

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RE: What's up with the FEAR benches? by DigitalFreak, 1352 days ago

There is a known bug in the current drivers that causes a performance drop with the 7900GTX in FEAR. Check our HardOCP's preview, where they use the updated driver from Nvidia. FEAR scores are the same or higher than the 1900XT(x)

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RE: What's up with the FEAR benches? by DerekWilson, 1352 days ago

We went back and updated our performance numbers with the afore mentioned driver fix.

NVIDIA released it to the press late in the weekend, but we felt the performance increase was important enough to retest with the new driver.

I haven't read Scott's article at the Tech Report yet, so I don't know what driver he used.

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