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Gainward Bliss 7900GS 512MB...

Gainward is getting its new card ready for the retail market. The first samples are being prepared and the specs are finalised. The company will brand the card as the Gainward BLISS7900GS PCX 512MB TV Dual DVI.

The card is clocked at 450MHz core and 1320MHz GDDR 3 memory with 256 bit interface. The card comes with 512 MB of memory which slowly is becomeing a standard.

It should end up a little bit more expensive than €199 as it has twice as much memory than the standard Geforce 7900 GS card. Gainward did a special high performance and quiet cooler for the card and claims the support for Essential Vista, Pure Video HD, Extreme HD ready and a few other nice marketing gimmicks.

The card yet again uses G71 chip and this one has 20 pipelines enabled. The card should be in retail/etail in the next two weeks, probably after September 15th.

7900GS (p)review: 1, 2, 3, 4


Asus 7950GT...

Asus has actually already announced the Nvidia's 7950 GT card. The card is called by the snappy moniker ASUS EN7950GT/HTDP, GeForce 7950 GT and comes with 512MB GDDR3 memory clocked at 1400 MHz while the core works at 550 MHz. it also has two times DVI a TV-out and it is a PCIe 16X card. Its ordering code is (90-C1CIC0-JUAY).

The card has 24 pipelines and uses 95W so you better have at least 350 W PSU to power this card. It also supports HDCP and it is about two weeks away from the announcement.

Cijene Asus 7950GT kartice: 1, 2


GeForce 7900GTO...slijepi putnik
Overclockers.co.uk online store is currently taking orders on the GeForce 7900 GTO graphics cards, which are claimed to have GeForce 7900 GTX graphics chip that features 24 pixel shader and 8 vertex processors and operates at 650MHz onboard along with 512MB of 1320MHz memory. Priced at £199.74 including value added tax (VAT), this board is a hybrid of the fully fledged GeForce 7900 GTX (650MHz core, 1600MHz memory) and GeForce 7900 GT (450MHz core, 1320MHz memory). The online store expects 2 thousand GeForce 7900 GTO units to arrive on September 11, 2006.

This card is more or less identical to any other 7900 GTX on the market accept for two differences. The first is its memory is clocked slower and secondly, look at the price. Performance wise these cards are only approx 3-5% slower than a 7900 GTX with full speed memory, but you can easily overclock these cards as well. So when you consider the price, this is an amazing deal. Be quick! Stock will soon be gone!

Izvor: X-bit Labs, Inquirer i nV News