7800 Series

[W1nTry]

Well the Gainward Golden samples or the 7800GTX are here.... and well lets say they are the most powerful air cooled 7800GTX's in the world. The stock clocks on a reference 7800GTX is 400MHz core and 1200MHz memory as opposed to gainwards warrantied 480MHz Core and 1300MHz memory. The card clocked even higher than that with a lil OCing to 515MHz core and 1400MHz memory stable. Imagine that, this card is in teh 43Gigatexel region.

It scores of 18396 in 3DMark 2003, 9009 in 3DMark 2005 and 83024 in Aquamark 3
Here's the review:
http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=articles&go=read&arc_id=35

[coledraft]

hm very interesting....it has the same memory transfer rate as the BFG (2600 MT) but the core transfer rate is 40MT more...but does Gainward offer a lifetime warranty like BFG?

[W1nTry]

The BEAST COMETH!!!!!!!

Nvidia nails R520XT with 512MB 7800 GTX

It's Ultra you know but we call it GTX

By Fuad Abazovic: Wednesday 02 November 2005, 14:03
NVIDIA'S UPCOMING Geforce 7800 GTX 512 MB version is going to be one heck of a card.

This card really looks great and we managed to confirm the data that we wrote about it yesterday. You can find that here.

We still don’t know the price of this card but it really puts ATI's Radeon X1800XT in a very hard position. This card is competing well versus old Geforce 7800GTX with 256MB of memory clocked at 430MHz core and 1200MHz but I don’t think that R520, Radeon X1800XT has much chance against 550MHz core and 1800MHz memory. Nvidia got it right this time and just nailed ATI.

Nvidia misdirected us trying to sell the story to its partners that there won't be any G70 Ultra but what the company did is just renamed this project to Geforce 7800 GTX 512MB and decided to stick with the same name. Nvidia already did this when renaming NV47 to G70, and in the end we learned that we are talking about the same chip all the time. So Geforce 7800 GTX 512 MB is what we used to call the 7800 Ultra and it has every sign to be very fast. It was a sneaky move from Nvidia but never mind, as long as it takes Nvidia back to the performance crown. This time we are not talking about a frame here and there, we are expecting a massive performance lead.

But will it upset current 7800 GTX 256 MB owners? It sure will but this was the only way that it could play it I guess. It will be fun to play with this card once it's out and we expect it will be the fastest card. A new king is coming.

I always had my suspicions but DUYAMN!!!!!!!!!!

[Czar]

OMG!! O_o

550/1800?? Wow!! Nice parry by nVidia. Would love to see the benches on that beast...

[Crixx_Creww]

so czar...

does it upset you as a 256 mb 7800 gtx owner??? LOL


ahahaha omfg 550/1800!!!

ISNT THAT ILLEGAL OR SOMETHING!! I MEAN!! WTF MATE!!!


wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

[W1nTry]

Well we have more final reports... the new 'utlra' version at least XFX's version will ROCK at 570MHz Core and 1780MHz Memory. Here's a pic:

[Czar]

does it upset you as a 256 mb 7800 gtx owner??? LOL

Errr...I own a 7800 GT not GTX...huge difference there (like about US$150 )...and even if i were a 7800GTX 256MB owner, I doubt that it would upset me...tho I can understand some people being upset because they once had the cream of the crop...and now there's a new king of the hill...but that's a reality that we all must face...hardware is constantly evolving, and newer, fatser models will always be churned out...doesn't take long for the new kid on the block to become the old guy at the back of the pack...

[Beomagi]

Friend of mine that doesn't even get time now to play games much now has a 7800GTX as was moaning about there being a new card already. So i told him, "it doesnt change how fast your system is now" His reply? He's no longer at the top. i never understand his type. Before his upgrade, he was pimping an fx53 (top at the time) with an x800xt. So he starts harping on my game system costing a third his price - a 3400+ (same clock, newcastle) @ 2.5GHz, 6800 unlocked to 16 pipes. It was no 6800GT, but the only difference was video ram at that point. It's actually how surprising how common his type is here.