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GeForce 7800 GTX
22.06.2005 by Tim Smalley

After last year's video card releases that saw one of the largest performance leaps over the previous generation ever seen, we were in for an interesting year in the world of video cards and PC gaming. The year's PC games market was undoubtedly dominated by the releases of Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, but they weren't the only games that were worth buying.

In fact, some would say that Doom 3 was a game that was not worth the financial outlay due to its linear game play

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Interesting read... wish they had a little more inthe way of side by side comparisons. As far as I can tell there is little performance increase in getting the card. The major difference is they adapted some of the things that ATI has done for a couple of years?

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nVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX Preview
Date: 2005-06-22
Author: Scott Sherman Bjorn Endre

INTRODUCTION

Looking back, the video card race between NVIDIA and ATI has usually meant a new chip once a year and a refresh once every six or so months. Usually the refresh has been the same chip with some minor tweaks and increased clock speeds when they

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GeForce 7800 GTX Sets Gaming Speed Records
Eric Dahl
Wed Jun 22, 9:00 AM ET

Packed with just over 300 million transistors, NVidia's latest high-end graphics chip, the GeForce 7800 GTX, is one of the most complex processors ever designed. And our tests of a reference board built around the new chip indicate that it's the fastest graphics board we've ever seen.

The GeForce 7800 GTX launches today; and NVidia expects boards to ship now from board partners such as Asus and Chaintek at a retail price of around $599. The reference board we tested was a single-slot PCI- Express board equipped with 256MB of 600-MHz DDR3 memory and dual DVI outputs.

Technology Boost

Running at 430 MHz, the new chip clocked a bit slower than the GeForce 6800 Ultra--NVidia's previous high-end graphics chip. NVidia boosted the new chip's processing power in a couple of ways. First, NVidia's chip designers added more pipelines for processing pixel and vertex shaders--short programs that the graphics chip runs to create realistic 3D graphics.

The 7800 chip has 8 vertex shader pipelines and 24 pixel shader pipes, whereas the chip in 6800 Ultra boards contains 6 vertex pipes and 16 pixel pipes. The extra pipelines account for much of the new chip's high transistor count.

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Whoa, one 7800GTX performs as much as two 6800 GT in SLI mode

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Whoa, one 7800GTX performs as much as two 6800 GT in SLI mode

I just got one 6800GT that I haven't even installed yet. Oh well. That's the nature of hardware.

[Odinn]

Whoa, one 7800GTX performs as much as two 6800 GT in SLI mode

I just got one 6800GT that I haven't even installed yet. Oh well. That's the nature of hardware.

www.ebay.com

[Odinn]

Just found the 256MB GDDR3 version for $675.00 from here.

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Whoa, one 7800GTX performs as much as two 6800 GT in SLI mode

I just got one 6800GT that I haven't even installed yet. Oh well. That's the nature of hardware.

www.ebay.com

Are you suggesting that I sell it?

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Whoa, one 7800GTX performs as much as two 6800 GT in SLI mode

I just got one 6800GT that I haven't even installed yet. Oh well. That's the nature of hardware.

www.ebay.com

Are you suggesting that I sell it?

Yes !