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| NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX Graphics Card |
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Of course, thanks to its use of the 90nm process
technology and the trimming of several million transistors, it's also
smaller and cheaper to make. But because this is a premium product,
we doubt you will actually see the savings! Even though it is cooler, the GeForce 7900 GTX still runs pretty hot under heavy load, but the fan's noise level is surprisingly quiet. It's actually as quiet as the fan used in the GeForce 7800 GTX and quieter than the fan used in the new GeForce 7900 GT! However, overclocking it was not easy. We only managed to overclock the core by 52MHz and the memory by 100MHz. While there's overclocking potential, you will need to keep this beast really cool to properly realize its full clock speed potential. Performance-wise, you can run any game at 16xAF
and 4xAA with virtually no loss in performance. Enabling Transparency
Anti-Aliasing may incur some performance loss but generally, it's not
very significant. Armed with a single GeForce 7900 GTX, you can confidently
play any game at 1600x1200 with 16xAF and 4xAA enabled. Don't worry
about frame rates. Just concentrate on gaming! Although there is a lot of hubbub about SLI (including the recent announcement of SLI Physics), there's really no need for anyone to run two GeForce 7900 GTX cards in SLI at this moment, especially when the fastest processors in the market aren't fast enough to harness the full potential of a GeForce 7900 GTX SLI setup. Running these cards in SLI is really only for a very select group of users who absolutely want the best performance without any cost considerations. If you are one of them, well, you have to make sure you have the fastest processor money can buy, large amounts of RAM (2GB would be nice!), a good SLI motherboard and a very large LCD panel with a resolution greater than just 1600x1200. Anything less will just waste the GeForce 7900 GTX SLI's potential. You have to be insane not to love this card,
but you have to be insane to get this card as well! The price tag is
as mind-blowing as its predecessor. Evidently, cost savings in manufacturing
this chip does not really translate into lower prices for consumers
like us. We sure loved the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX, but its price tag
is way beyond our means... Because of its tremendous processing power, we are proud to award it our Reviewer's Choice Award! If only the price was lower... But still, congratulations, NVIDIA! For more details, read our Comprehensive Review! |
The NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX is really just an optimized
version of the GeForce 7800 GTX. It's faster and yet cooler than the
GeForce 7800 GTX. But other than that, it doesn't come with any feature
that its predecessor didn't already have.
| MSRP |
• $499 - $649 |
| Lowest PriceGrabber Price |
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| Review |
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Architecture |
• G71 |
Process Technology |
• 90 nm |
Number of Transistors |
• 278 Million |
Die Size |
• 196 mm2 |
Pixel Pipelines |
• 24 Pixel Pipelines |
ROPs |
• 16 ROPs - 16 colour, 16 blend |
Core Clock |
• 650 MHz |
Fillrate |
• 15.6 Gigapixels / sec. |
Memory Interface |
• 4-way 64-bits
memory interface |
Memory Buffer |
• 512 MB GDDR3 |
Memory Clock |
• 800 MHz |
Memory Bandwidth |
• 51.2 GB/s |
Vertex Units |
• 8 Vertex Units |
Vertex Clock |
• 700 MHz |
Vertex Output |
• 1400 million vertices / sec. |
Power Consumption |
• 120 W |
Graphics Bus |
• PCI Express |
Shader Model Version |
• SM 3.0 |
NVIDIA IntelliSample Technology |
• 4.0 |
NVIDIA SLI Technology |
• Yes |
NVIDIA Quad SLI Technology |
• Yes |
NVIDIA TurboCache Technology |
• No |
64-bit Texture Filtering and Blending |
• Yes |
DVI Support |
• Two dual-linked DVI, both integrated into the GPU |
| Features |
• Microsoft®
DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 Support |
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