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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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.
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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Cygni - Friday, March 10, 2006 - link
Ya, you paid good money to read this review!
DerekWilson - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
fixedaryaba - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Huh?Dfere - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Wow. I guess I am getting old. Just what are they trying to do with all the GS GT, XL, XLT nomenclature. And I build my own systems.....tuteja1986 - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
lol :)I just saw the x1800gto score they beat the 7600GT almost every test. http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/325/">http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/325/
Now its time to see the price ; ) lets see how far the prices of these cards can go :)
coldpower27 - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
And oh by the way it looks like the 7600 GT does quite good against the X1800 GTO with less then half the die size to boot and only a 128Bit Memory Interface.http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_geforce...">http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvi...geforce_...
coldpower27 - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Can you please show me what you saw I don't see the 7600 GT tested against the X1800 GTO period. It's only tested against the X1800 XL.