<img src="http://parcom.pronetworks.org/PROneT-News/nvidia.jpg" align="right"> BFGTech & XFX GeForce 7800 GT
11th August 2005
by Tim Smalley
Earlier this week we had a look at Gainward's Ultra/3500PCX XP Golden Sample - an overclocked GeForce 7800 GTX. Without giving too much away to anyone who hasn't read the full review; it happens to be one of the fastest video cards around that comes coupled with an awesome retail price. That combination makes it one of the most desirable video cards available for purchase today.
Today, NVIDIA announce the second addition to the GeForce 7 series: the GeForce 7800 GT. As with the launch of GeForce 7800 GTX; NVIDIA are hard launching this video card - and by the time you have finished reading this review, you should be able to make your purchase at your favourite online retailer.
Rather than a typical reference card review, we have a two matched pairs of retail GeForce 7800 GT's that you can go out and buy later today that we've put through their paces in the labs over the last few days. Before we have a look at the retail cards, we'll take a quick look at what is underneath the hood of GeForce 7800 GT, and how it differs from GeForce 7800 GTX.
The Power of 3:
There has been some discussion in our video card forum recently about the banner that has been on NVIDIA's website for the last week or so. NVIDIA are launching a new marketing campaign to market the technologies that they have - and ATI don't currently have - in shipping hardware. Not surprisingly, that means NVIDIA are marketing the fact that they have Shader Model 3.0, HDR technology (we'll come on to that one in a second), and SLI or dual GPU capabilities.
<img src="http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/images/smiles/source.jpg"> bit-tech.net
<img src="http://www.pronetworks.org/forum/images/smiles/view.jpg" border="0"> <a href=http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2005/08/11/bfgtech_xfx_7800gt/1.html target=_blank>complete review</a> -- 13 pages
