- Nvidia's GeForce 7800GS Becomes a Better Buy
- The GeForce 7800GS Shows AGP Ain't Dead Yet
- ATI's Radeon X1900 Heats Up With 48 Shader Units
- New 3D Graphics Card Features in 2006
- Squeezing Value Out of Lower-End Cards
- Two's Company, Four's a WOW! Sneak Preview of NVIDIA Quad GPU Graphics
- Seven of NVIDIA's Latest and Greatest Cards Tested
- VGA Charts VIII: PCI Express Winter 2005
- Don't Throw Out Your ATI Radeon X800 Yet
- NVIDIA's GeForce 7800 GTX 512 New Graphics Champion
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: ati, nvidias, day, mega, launch, mayhem
Topics: AMD/ATI, NVIDIA
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GeForce 7600GT

The midrange product debuting today is the GeForce 7600GT. G73 can be described as half of the G71 with the exception of the vertex shader count. The 178-million transistor processor contains five vertex shaders, 12 pixel shaders and eight Raster Operations (ROP) pipelines that can manage eight color and eight blend operations per clock. The GeForce 7900 or G71 has 16 ROP pipelines and can thus handle 16 color and 16 blend operations per clock.

The next obvious difference between the 7900 series and the 7600GT are the clock frequencies. The GeForce 7600GT operates with a 560 MHz core with vertex and pixel shaders running at the same frequency. The GDDR3 memory runs at 700 MHz but has a 128-bit bus width. This makes the available bandwidth 22.4 GB/s versus the GeForce 7900GTX available 51.2 GB/s.

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