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."

GeForce 6600 DDR2

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Slashdot users may be far more intereseted in the GeForce 6600 DDR2:

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews /geforce6600ddr2/ [neoseeker.com]

At $99, it's a lot easier to swallow than the $600 GPUs we're now seeing, and it still offers excellent performance and decent Linux support.

Re:Other Reviews

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Because nVidia wasn't the only company cheating. ATI was also found [extremetech.com] to be "optimizing" for benchmarks, too. Yes, it was a couple of years ago. But you give too much credit to think that people have stopped being stupid. It won't surprise me at all if it happens again.

Re:Other Reviews

[plover]

Don't be fooled just because it's not an official benchmark program. Remember Quack vs Quake? A benchmarker renamed Quake3 to Quack3, and found the ATI card's performance dropped because the drivers were tuned to the specific application named Quake3.exe.

What they never identified was an answer to this question: "Was this an optimization for Quake, or was this a deliberate attempt to improve ATI's standings in the benchmark wars?" If you download the ATI drivers, you'll find that every new driver patch contains a list of games that have had driver bugs fixed that address title-specific problems. So we have plenty of evidence that card makers look at specific games, but without mind-reading abilities it's impossible to know their motives.