NVIDIA's Tiny 90nm G71 and G73: GeForce 7900 and 7600 Debut
by Derek Wilson on March 9, 2006 10:00 AM EST- Posted in
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7900 GT: Just Another 7800 GTX?
Rather than clutter up our performance tests with a full set of numbers from another card, we decided to sum up its performance first. As we saw in our card comparison charts, the 7900 GT has specifications nearly identical to the 7800 GTX. Here we take a look at the stock 7800 GTX vs. the stock 7900 GT. There are plenty of overclocked 7800 GTX cards around that will either perform exactly like or very slightly higher than the 7900 GT. But as our performance tests at 1920x1440 clearly show, the 7900 GT only marginally edges out the stock 7800 GTX in performance.
In the following performance tests, we included the 7800 GTX 512 in order to compare the performance improvement the 7900 GTX offers over the previous flagship. For a comparison between the original 7800 GTX and the 7900 GTX, simply imagine that the 7900 GT has a different label.
Rather than clutter up our performance tests with a full set of numbers from another card, we decided to sum up its performance first. As we saw in our card comparison charts, the 7900 GT has specifications nearly identical to the 7800 GTX. Here we take a look at the stock 7800 GTX vs. the stock 7900 GT. There are plenty of overclocked 7800 GTX cards around that will either perform exactly like or very slightly higher than the 7900 GT. But as our performance tests at 1920x1440 clearly show, the 7900 GT only marginally edges out the stock 7800 GTX in performance.
In the following performance tests, we included the 7800 GTX 512 in order to compare the performance improvement the 7900 GTX offers over the previous flagship. For a comparison between the original 7800 GTX and the 7900 GTX, simply imagine that the 7900 GT has a different label.
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DigitalFreak - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
One of the reasons I just picked up 2 7900GTX boards. That, and I've been hearing of more and more problems with Crossfire.Rogue 2 - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
On "The Competition" page, they're showing the 7600GT w/ 256 bit memory bus, and the 6800GS w/ 128 bit memory bus. Isn't it exactly the opposite?DerekWilson - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
yes -- fixedDigitalFreak - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Power test info is missing.DarthPierce - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Yep... I see no graphs :)DerekWilson - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
fixedDarthPierce - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
I think the 7900GTX vs 7800 GTX512 graph is also missingDerekWilson - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Do you mean 7900 GT vs. 7800 GTX? We didn't do a seperated 7800 GTX 512 vs. 7900 GTX comparison.BigLan - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
"Today marks the launch of NVIDIA's newest graphics cards: the 7900 GTX, 7900 GT and the 7900 GT."Should that be 7900 GT and the 7600 GT ?
SpaceRanger - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
That was the first thing I noticed too... Pretty obvious typo that should have been caught.