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| XFX GeForce 7900 GT Extreme Edition Graphics Card |
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The card itself is really nothing special. It followed the NVIDIA reference design, albeit factory-overclocked to 520MHz core and 750MHz memory. XFX even used the same cooler, even though both core and memory were overclocked. The included bundle was bare, with games included as part of the package. The two DVI-to-VGA adaptors are the only consolation. But the card certainly made up for it with its raw performance and phenomenal overclockability! We have no idea if this is the norm or the exception but our card was highly overclockable. We managed to push this card to 590MHz core and 870MHz memory. That's a cool boost of 140MHz (31%) in GPU speed and 210MHz (31.2%) in memory speed! The street price of this XFX GeForce
7900GT Extreme Edition is below $300 at the time of writing. This is
therefore the best bang-for-the-buck deal in the high-end category for
NVIDIA graphics cards. XFX actually has an even faster model (even
more extreme? Couple this card's great performance at "stock speeds" with its incredible overclockability, and we have a real winner here. We like this card so much that we think you will agree that this card deserves nothing less than our Editor's Choice Award. Congratulations, XFX! For more details, read our Comprehensive Review! |
The
XFX GeForce 7900 GT Extreme Edition performed really well in our tests.
In most of the game benchmarks, this card managed to beat the NVIDIA
GeForce 7800 GT card by 20-30% at stock speeds. This
improved to about 40-60% when the card was further overclocked!
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- one with a 550MHz core and a 815MHz memory speed. XFX also has VIVO-enabled
cards in their lineup.| MSRP |
• NA |
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| Review |
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Model |
• PV-T71G-UDE7 |
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 |
• 520 MHz |
Fillrate |
• 12.48 Gigapixels / sec. |
Memory Interface |
• 4-way 64-bits
memory interface |
Memory Buffer |
• 256 MB GDDR3 |
Memory Clock |
• 750 MHz |
Memory Bandwidth |
• 48.0 GB/s |
Vertex Units |
• 8 Vertex Units |
Vertex Clock |
• 543 MHz |
Vertex Output |
• 1086 million vertices / sec. |
Power Consumption |
• NA |
Graphics Bus |
• PCI Express |
Shader Model Version |
• SM 3.0 |
NVIDIA IntelliSample Technology |
• 4.0 |
NVIDIA SLI Technology |
• Yes |
NVIDIA Quad SLI Technology |
• No |
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 |
Package Contents |
• One XFX GeForce 7900GT Extreme Edition graphics card |
| Warranty |
• XFX Double Lifetime Warranty |
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