7900 Collated Reviews Thread

Fx-Overlord · 9 Mar 2006 at 11:39

Putting up a thread so we can put all the reviews together. So if you have a link which isn't on this post then post a reply and i'll add it

I'll start first

7900 Series And 7600GT
clubic (french)
ixbit (russian)
HardOCP
Guru3d 1
Guru3d 2
ExtremeTech
The Tech Report
Hot Hardware
Firing Squad
Legit Reviews XFX 7900GTX XXX Edition)
PC Perspective
Bjorn3D (XFX 7900GTX XXX Edition)
AnandTech
Tomshardwareguid

7600GT
Firing Squad
Beyond3D

roadie · 9 Mar 2006 at 11:44

My French is probably now worse than GCSE level but it seems that the 7900GT is noisy...

Fx-Overlord · 9 Mar 2006 at 11:48

Les moins: Ventilateur bruyant

I agree with your GCSE translation, with my own GCSE translation

chovi · 9 Mar 2006 at 11:51

looks like 7900 gtx and x1900xtx are pretty similar, yet when ani and aa are applied, maybe ati wins on this ? my french is terible and the diagrams were not the best to see clearly !!!

smids · 9 Mar 2006 at 11:56

I don't mean to sound like a grouch but I'm not sure about that review. If I was reading it correctly, then even at high resolutions a 256MB 7900GT was beating a 512MB XT even at higher resolutions on some things (BF2 and others). For what is essentially just a speed bumped 256MB 7800GTX, does this ring true, especially given the 3DMark scores. I await a good review but if those are correct, then it looks promising on the nV front

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oweneades · 9 Mar 2006 at 11:56

looks pretty good, although my french is not the best lol.

From what I could tell from the numbers the 7900GT performs around 10% faster than the 7800gt (so 7800GTX performance) and the 7900GTX is still slightly behind the X1900XTX.

Just thought I would add I don't see any graphs for some reason (at work) so I can only go by the text.

kbc · 9 Mar 2006 at 11:59

From my understanding, just looking at the graphs, it looks about even... at points ATi does better and at points Nvidia does better...

Fx-Overlord · 9 Mar 2006 at 12:01

smids said:
I don't mean to sound like a grouch but I'm not sure about that review. If I was reading it correctly, then even at high resolutions a 256MB 7900GT was beating a 512MB XT even at higher resolutions on some things (BF2 and others). For what is essentially just a speed bumped 256MB 7800GTX, does this ring true, especially given the 3DMark scores. I await a good review but if those are correct, then it looks promising on the nV front .

I didn't "read" much of it since my french is not too great, I just scanned read the text. But, are you sure you weren't looking at the 7900GT SLI numbers?

On the graphs, the 7900GT only beats a x1900xt at 1024 resolutions.

smids · 9 Mar 2006 at 12:01

kbc said:
From my understanding, just looking at the graphs, it looks about even... at points ATi does better and at points Nvidia does better...

Yeah, having had a second look, it does seem that way. Some results look a bit off but on the whole seems ok. Can't wait for Anandtech though tbh.

smids · 9 Mar 2006 at 12:03

Fx-Overlord said:
I didn't "read" much of it since my french is not too great, I just scanned read the text. But, are you sure you weren't looking at the 7900GT SLI numbers? On the graphs, the 7900GT never beats a x1900xt

Positive - BF2 is one example but there are a few where it was on par with the XT but not as many as I previously thought.

It does seem that nV have done very well though from what I read (I can rely on my french

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Fx-Overlord · 9 Mar 2006 at 12:07

smids said:
Positive - BF2 is one example but there are a few where it was on par with the XT but not as many as I previously thought.

It does seem that nV have done very well though from what I read (I can rely on my french ).

Oh, i never noticed that LOL

I guess if your going to play at that high resolution and its thundering along at 250fps then you'll probably add AF and AA anyway, so perhaps the score with AA and AF is a better indication of performance

smids · 9 Mar 2006 at 12:11

Fx-Overlord said:
Oh, i never noticed that LOL

I guess if your going to play at that high resolution and its thundering along at 250fps then you'll probably add AF and AA anyway, so perhaps the score with AA and AF is a better indication of performance

Very true - and then when you add the AA and AF, it really does show, doesn't it?

Apart from the GT fan which will give the ATi stock fan a run for it's money in the vacuum soundalike contest, it's looking good.

I CANNOT wait to see a 7900GTX 700/1800 in action - I mean, just OMG!!!

hannibal2381 · 9 Mar 2006 at 12:31

im getting 12,108 in 3d05 and 5,400 in 3d06 with my stock xtx and 146 @ 3ghz. and we all know 06 loves dual core. so lets see have the 7900's compare once the benchmarks start flowing.

lay-z-boy · 9 Mar 2006 at 12:38

those f.e.a.r & aa scores are the only ones that seem to be bad, recon i wont move from a broken x1900xtx to 7900gtx ee though.

chaparral · 9 Mar 2006 at 12:55

Fx-Overlord said:
Putting up a thread so we can put all the reviews together. So if you have a link which isn't on this post then post a reply and i'll add it

I'll start first

http://www.clubic.com/article-32655-1-nvidia-geforce-7900-gt-gtx-bonjour-g71.html

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Choose french to english.

King_Boru · 9 Mar 2006 at 13:18

Never trusted the french. Awaiting an english review/well known reviewer. Those results look a wee bit dodgey and no Crossfire either. I wouldnt be surprised if they were made by NV themselves.

malccy · 9 Mar 2006 at 13:21

lay-z-boy said:
those f.e.a.r & aa scores are the only ones that seem to be bad, recon i wont move from a broken x1900xtx to 7900gtx ee though.

broken? - what happened?

roadie · 9 Mar 2006 at 13:22

http://www.ixbt.com/video2/g71-part1.shtml

Russian review. 7600GT is 128bit, not 256bit.

G.O.A.T · 9 Mar 2006 at 13:25

I don't much notice of the scores without AA and AF applied, The only games I run without AA are the ones designed that way. i.e. Floating point HDR stuff.

evil513 · 9 Mar 2006 at 13:26

roadie said:
http://www.ixbt.com/video2/g71-part1.shtml

Russian review. 7600GT is 128bit, not 256bit.

Nah..it says is 7900(G71) is 256
EDIT: Sorry mate...I have read 7900. 7600 is 128bit.