If, as we suspect, ATI was knocked back on its heels when nVidia both announced and shipped the GeForce 7800 GTX on the same day, the company must really be reeling from nVidia’s next punch: the less-expensive, nearly as powerful GeForce 7800 GT.
The GeForce 7800 GT is almost identical to the GeForce 7800 GTX, but it has four fewer pixel pipelines (20 versus 24) and slower clock speeds. The “OC” in this implementation, however, stems from BFG’s decision to overclock the board’s GDDR3 memory and graphics core to 525- and 425MHz, respectively, compared with nVidia’s reference-design specs of 500- and 400MHz.
Drop a pair of these in an SLI-capable motherboard and you’ll get Doom 3 at 1600x1200 resolution with 4x antialiasing blasting out of your monitor at 81.2 frames per second. That’s kick-ass performance in our book.
—Michael Brown
Month Reviewed: November 2005
Verdict: 9
kickass=yes
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HEAD-TO-HEAD VIDEOCARD BENCHMARKS
| DOOM 3 (fps) | FAR CRY (fps) | HALO (fps) |
3DMARK05 |
3DMARK03 |
3DMARK03 GAME 2 (fps) | 3DMARK03 GAME 4 (fps) | HQV SCORE |
|
| LEADTEK WINFAST PX6600 TDH | 18.1 | 35.1 | 44.0 | 3,626 | 8,562 | 12.9 | 15.4 | 73 |
| SAPPHIRE RADEON X800 GT | 18.3 | 49.4 | 42.7 | 4,213 | 9,566 | 12.2 | 23.0 | 55 |
| MSI NX6800 RIDDICK | 24.6 | 46.4 | 42.6 | 3,887 | 9,218 | 15.8 | 22.3 | 73 |
| CONNECT3D 3028 X800XL | 31.0 | 60.2 | 58.6 | 5,092 | 10,921 | 22.3 | 32.2 | 55 |
| XFX GEFORCE 6800GT | 39.8 | 71.2 | 63.3 | 5,145 | 11,945 | 24.6 | 28.1 | 78 |
| SAPPHIRE RADEON X850 XT | 37.9 | 80.8 | 78.0 | 6,189 | 12,648 | 26.5 | 38.3 | 65 |
| BFG GEFORCE 7800 GT OC | 49.7 | 84.2 | 87.4 | 6,911 | 14,894 | 32.2 | 46.2 | 83 |
| ATI RADEON X850 XT PE | 40.2 | 87.1 | 80.2 | 6,468 | 13,170 | 28.4 | 41.1 | 65 |
| PNY VERTO GEFORCE 7800 GTX | 53.6 | 81.5 | 102.6 | 7,648 | 16,074 | 33.8 | 47.9 | 83 |
| ASUS EXTREME N7800 GTX TOP | 60.5 | 91.3 | 111.2 | 8,560 | 17,698 | 39.8 | 58.7 | 83 |
Best scores in each category (shaded) are bolded.
HOW WE TESTED:
TEST SYSTEM: Athlon FX-55, nForce4, SLI motherboard, 2GB DDR RAM
DOOM 3: Timedemo 1 tested at 1600x1200, High Quality, 4x AA
FAR CRY: Boat level tested at 1600x1200, all settings on High (water at Ultra High), 4x AA, 8x aniso
HALO: Timedemo script tested at 1600x1200
3DMARK03 GAME 2 AND GAME 4: Tested at 1600x1200, 4x AA, 8x aniso
3DMARK03 AND 3DMARK05: Tested using default settings
HQV SCORE: HQV Benchmark DVD
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