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The New GeForce 7600 GT GPU
On March 9th, 2006, NVIDIA launched three new GeForce 7 series GPUs. Two of these GPUs are high-end cards - the GeForce 7900 GTX/GT GPUs. The third is a new mid-range GPU - the GeForce 7600 GT!
The new GeForce 7600 GT will be a replacement for the popular GeForce 6600 GT graphics card. Designed to offer the same price-performance value of the GeForce 6600 GT, this GPU will feature more pixel pipelines, more vertex shaders and a 90nm process technology.
It is, however, not the first NVIDIA GPU to feature the smaller 90nm process technology. That honour goes to the humble GeForce 7300 GS. Thanks to the new process technology, the GeForce 7600 GT will not only be faster than its predecessor, it will also be smaller, cooler and use less power!
Let's take a look at the new GeForce 7600 GT!
The GeForce 7600 GT
The GeForce 7600 GTX is NVIDIA's new mid-range GPU. Targeted at the ATI Radeon X1600 XT, the GeForce 7600 GT will boast a target price of USD 199.
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Let's take a look at its specifications :
| Architecture | G73 |
| Process Technology | 90 nm |
| Number of Transistors | 177 Million |
| Die Size | NA |
| Pixel Pipelines | 12 Pixel Pipelines |
| ROPs | 8 ROPs - 8 colour, 8 blend |
| Core Clock | 560 MHz |
| Fillrate | 6.7 Gigapixels / sec. |
| Memory Interface | 2-way 64-bits memory interface (128-bits total) |
| Memory Buffer | 256 MB GDDR3 |
| Memory Clock | 700 MHz 1.4 GHz DDR |
| Memory Bandwidth | 22.4 GB/s |
| Vertex Units | 5 Vertex Units |
| Vertex Clock | 560 MHz |
| Vertex Output | 700 million vertices / sec. |
| Power Consumption | 67 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 | Single dual-linked DVI |
This is what the NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT reference card looks like. It actually uses the same cooler as the new GeForce 7900 GT graphics card!
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Back of the card |
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If you take a look at the picture on the right, you can see that the cooler is a single slot solution. The cooler does not exhaust air out the bracket.
Similar to the GeForce 7900 GT, the bracket features just the single HDTV-out connector and two DVI ports.
