3Digest, August 2005:
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX PCI-E 256MB DDR3 (486/1350 MHz)
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This GPU is presented by ASUS GeForce 7800 GTX TOP, 256MB, PCI-E card.
Features:
- NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX GPU(24 pixel pipelines), 486/486/526 MHz clock rates;
- 256MB DDR3 SGRAM in 8 Samsung BGA chips.
- 256-bit bus;
- Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode without optimizations is 11664 megapixels/sec and 11664 megatexels/sec.
By the end of the month the product has MSRP of $599 (the real value is about $650-700 considering the newness), supports DirectX 9.0c.
This is the fastest graphics accelerator today. Released by NVIDIA (and overclocked by ASUS), it supports all modern technologies, including Shaders 3.0. The card has PCI-Express 16x interface.
1.6ns fetch indicates 625 (1250) MHz clock, but memory operates at 675 (1350) MHz.
You can read more on GeForce 7 Series in our reviews: Theoretical and analytical graphics card reviews containing functional analysis of NVIDIA GPUs
On August 10, 2005 the latest drivers from NVIDIA were 77.77 WHQL for Windows XP.
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