Partners to clock to 585+ MHz
WE have some additional details about the Geforce 7600GT card. Nvidia managed to mess with ATIs plans to make RV530, Radeon X1600 cards as 128 bit cards only. Its 6800 GS with 256 bit interface won the hearts of consumers and benchmarketeers. I guess now it’s pay back time. Nvidia won't continue that trend as you need a bigger die for a card that supports the 256 bit memory interface.
Geforce 7600 GT will still be 128 bit card but so also are the X1600XT/PROs. We reckon that 7600 GS is meant to fight X1600PRO and both G73 based 7600 cards will end up with a 128 bit memory interface.
I suspect that both 7600 GT and GS will be able to outperform the current X1600 XT and PRO cards and 7600 cards will be able to do 12 pixels shaders per clock. It is just enough to match ATI's offering.
But beware! ATI has X1800GTO cards coming soon powered with 12 pipelines and 500 1000 MHz clocks and 256 bit interface. We think that this card has to smash Geforce 7600 GT performance as 7600 GT is 128 bit only card while ATI card works with twice as fast 256 bit memory interface. It's a pay back strategy and we can bet that both cards will be priced similarly.
Some of the usual overclocking partners will clock Geforce 7600 GT to 585 MHz and probably even higher and those cards are ought to perform even faster.
Quick specifications for GeForce 7600GT from NVIDIA documents:
NVIDIA's 7600GT reference design ::::::::::::::::: SPDIF In Jack
WE have some additional details about the Geforce 7600GT card. Nvidia managed to mess with ATIs plans to make RV530, Radeon X1600 cards as 128 bit cards only. Its 6800 GS with 256 bit interface won the hearts of consumers and benchmarketeers. I guess now it’s pay back time. Nvidia won't continue that trend as you need a bigger die for a card that supports the 256 bit memory interface.
Geforce 7600 GT will still be 128 bit card but so also are the X1600XT/PROs. We reckon that 7600 GS is meant to fight X1600PRO and both G73 based 7600 cards will end up with a 128 bit memory interface.
I suspect that both 7600 GT and GS will be able to outperform the current X1600 XT and PRO cards and 7600 cards will be able to do 12 pixels shaders per clock. It is just enough to match ATI's offering.
But beware! ATI has X1800GTO cards coming soon powered with 12 pipelines and 500 1000 MHz clocks and 256 bit interface. We think that this card has to smash Geforce 7600 GT performance as 7600 GT is 128 bit only card while ATI card works with twice as fast 256 bit memory interface. It's a pay back strategy and we can bet that both cards will be priced similarly.
Some of the usual overclocking partners will clock Geforce 7600 GT to 585 MHz and probably even higher and those cards are ought to perform even faster.
Quick specifications for GeForce 7600GT from NVIDIA documents:
- PCIe native
- 560MHz core frequency
- 128-bit memory interface
- 20.2GB/sec. memory bandwidth
- 7B pixels/sec. fill rate
- 730M vertices/sec.
- 12 pixels per cycle
- Built in dual-link DVI support for 2560x1600 resolution
NVIDIA's 7600GT reference design ::::::::::::::::: SPDIF In Jack