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Friday, January 20, 2006

GeForce 7300 GS emerged!

Another card from NVIDIA has emerged, GeForce 7300 GS. They didn't release 7800 GS, but they released this 4-pipelines card, so consider it as a low-end video card. It's meant to directly compete with ATi X1300. The core has everything that 7800 core can offer, S.M. 3.0, HDR, Purevideo etc.. oh, another thing, the core is based on 90 nm process (NVIDIA's first!).

I wonder how it's gonna perform with specs like this:
- Core = 550 MHz
- Memory = 400 MHz DDR2 (varies depending on manufacturers)
- Memory interface = 64-bit (that's poor!)
- 3 vertex shaders.
- SLI is not supported at the moment (sorry!)

Personally, I reckon that this video card will be better than X1300. What I think is that G70-based core is architecturally more efficient than R520 and its derivatives, with the exception of X1800 series (come one, 16 pipeline being a tad shy behind (and sometimes better!) than 24-pipeline counterpart? That has to count for something!).

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