Het 7800 GS Topic

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Hij komt er binnenkort echt aan het nieuwe (wonderkindje?) van NVIDIA de 7800 GS


Afbeeldingslocatie: http://www.ngohq.com/images/articles/7800gs/logo.jpg

Afbeeldingslocatie: http://tweakers.net/ext/i.dsp/1132699629.jpg


The Card

The NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS in its current state is based on the G70 chip (listed as revision A1) with cut down pixel and vertex pipelines. The board layout is based on the 7800 GTX 512 board with all the RAM located on the front side of the PCB. Of course, the RAM used is the same type used on a 7800 GT (1GHz 8x32 GDDR3) rather than the super fast 1.7GHz 16x32 GDDR3 chips used on the 7800 GTX 512. This also means the board is equipped with 256MB of RAM using a 256bit interface

Afbeeldingslocatie: http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/video/nvidia/7800gs/boardrev.png

We took a look at the pipeline info using RivaTuner. What we have is a 16 pixel 6 vertex pipeline configuration. This is one quad and one vertex pipeline less than the 7800 GT (20 pixel and 7 vertex pipelines).

Afbeeldingslocatie: http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/video/nvidia/7800gs/rivatuner1.png

We did have to do a little bit of driver hacking to get the card installed properly. The nv4_disp.inf file needed to be edited to add support for the hardware ID reported by the cards bios. We got the hardware ID from the device manager properties:

PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0093&SUBSYS_030E10DE&REV_A1\4&19AD4D94&0&0020

All we needed to do to add support for this card was to add two lines in the nv4_disp.inf file:

%NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0093.1% = nv4_NV3x, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0093
and
NVIDIA_G70.DEV_0093.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS (hacked)"

It will be quite obvious where these lines go in the file, and the string in quotes is the driver description that is shown in the device manager (and RivaTuner). This string doesn't affect what the NVIDIA driver page shows, as it pulls its information from the hardware itself.

Once these lines are added to the .inf file, the driver could be installed with no problem. After making sure everything was setup correctly, we checked the clock speeds to make sure everything looked right. We ended up seeing a 375 MHz core clock and 1 GHz memory clock:

Afbeeldingslocatie: http://images.anandtech.com/reviews/video/nvidia/7800gs/clockspeeds.png

So now we know what we've got: a 375MHz G70 core with 16 pixel pipes and 6 vertex pipes connected to 256MB of 1GHz GDDR3 using a 256bit interface. This setup looks a little bit like an overclocked 6800 GT on the surface (of course, with G70 you get transparency AA and more efficient pixel pipes). Given what we know about the 6800 GS (it performs like a stock 6800 GT) and the 7800 GT (it will be faster than this with 20 pixel pipes, 7 vertex pipes, and a higher core clock), we can easily say that the 7800 GS will perform right in between these two parts.


Hier nog even een link naar de review van anandtech:

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2616

En naar de review van NGOHQ:

http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=articles&go=read&arc_id=58

Dit topic is om jullie meningen en als hij uitkomt de evaringen over de 7800 gs te delen.

Heeft iemand deze kaart al gespot of heeft iemand al meer informatie over de release date van deze kaart laat het hier dan weten.

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Een grotendeels Engelstalig 'groot' topic over een kaart die er nog niet is.. ik zie het nut niet helemaal. Als de kaart er is en er komen veel vragen over / ervaringen mee dan kan het altijd nog :)

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