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
- GPUs
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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5150Joker - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
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.Cygni - Friday, March 10, 2006 - link
Ya, cause you paid good money to read this review!
Griswold - Friday, March 10, 2006 - link
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. ;)
DerekWilson - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
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.
dab - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
So will EVGA send me a 7900gt in the step up program to replace my 6800GS?allometry - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
Is there any word as to when these cards will hit stores?DerekWilson - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
check now :-)allometry - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
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 :(
inthell - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
so NEWEGG shows some of the XFX and EVGA cards with a 256bit mem interface?inthell - Thursday, March 9, 2006 - link
why would anyone buy the 128bit version and how come anand didnt test or say anything abou this :confused: