GeForce 7800 GTX 512 Reviewed

ThinSkin writes "Today Nvidia released its latest combatant in the desktop graphics wars in the wake of ATI's new X1800 line, the GeForce 7800 GTX 512. The clock rate has been upped as well as the memory, partly thanks to a truly massive cooling solution. ExtremeTech's Jason Cross does all the benchmarking on a board from XFX, which is slightly overclocked and includes VIVO capabilities. At $650 list, it also sets a new price record for a new generation desktop graphics card."

Other Reviews

[Vigile]

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=182&type=expe rt [pcper.com]
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODg1 [hardocp.com]
http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2005q4/geforce-7 800gtx-512/index.x?pg=1 [techreport.com]
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2607 [anandtech.com]
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.aspx?articl eid=751&cid=2 [hothardware.com]
http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/285/ [guru3d.com]

Re:Other Reviews

[plover]

Bigger question: have any of the reviews discovered if nVidia's cheated [extremetech.com] on this benchmark yet?

It seems that any time ATI or nVidia releases a new card, they've also got some drivers that "optimize" for the 3DMark benchmarking software. So I figure it must just mean that nobody's found out how they're doing it yet.

It's kind of sad to think that when they announce some obviously kick-ass hardware that all I can think of is "how did they cheat this time?"

Re:Other Reviews

[RzUpAnmsCwrds]

Bigger question: have any of the reviews discovered if nVidia's cheated on this benchmark yet?
It seems that any time ATI or nVidia releases a new card, they've also got some drivers that "optimize" for the 3DMark benchmarking software. So I figure it must just mean that nobody's found out how they're doing it yet.

It's kind of sad to think that when they announce some obviously kick-ass hardware that all I can think of is "how did they cheat this time?"

The GeForce FX scandal was a few years ago, and no major GPU manufacturer is stupid enough to try to pull something like that again.

Image quality has been excellent on the GeForce 6 and 7 series parts so far. Some have reported a "shimmering" issue with AF turned on, but it's so difficult to spot that most people will never notice it. I certainly never have.

Re:Other Reviews

[dimfeld]

That's just another reason that reviewers are using real games as benchmarks more and more. It also helps that they give a much better impression of the card's capabilities in real-life situations.

Re:Vivo???

[damsa]

Vivo = Video in video out.

Vivo you are thinking of was a codec or something like that.