ATI and Nvidia's Same-Day Mega-Launch Mayhem

The GeForce 7900 Series

To compliment this die shrink, Nvidia reengineered some of the circuitry, which allows the G71 and G73 designs to use fewer transistors to do more. The G70 debuted as the GeForce 7800 GTX with 24-pixel pipelines and eight vertex units operating at a core clock speed of 430 MHz inside a 302 million transistor count package. G71 has the same number of core units as the G70 (eight vertex shaders, 24 pixel shaders and 16 ROPs).