NVidia 7900 GTX

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ItlanChode

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Will ship at $499, while the 7800 GTX is $439 atm.. should I remove the 7800 from my shopping cart and wait for the 7900 to come out?
 
Just wait for the 7900GTX

Yep. Wait just a little bit and you´ll get 32 pipelines =)
X1900XTX Is going down! Way down!
 
I'm waiting a year to get a new video card. My 7800GT SHOULD be enough to get through the next wave of games - and I SHOULD be able to play at max def. for at least a few more months without any slow-down.
 
Although it runs slower at 650/1450, doesnt the x1900 have 48 pipelines? If the x1900 has more pipelines, but the 7900gt runs faster, which one is actually better?
 
thealmightyone said:
doesnt the x1900 have 48 pipelines?
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That's what everyone assumed, I guess someone got the wrong information and released it to the public :(

I'm pretty sure the X1900 only has 16 pp's
 
The X1900 has 16 pipelines but can handle 48 shader ops in a single pass ... before nVidiots jump on this for false advertising ... nVidia's GeForceFX5900 did the same thing -- it only had four pixel pipelines but could do two ops in a single pass and was often branded as 8-pipe.

As for G71 vs R580, should be interesting:
  1. ATi's part has waaaaaaaaaaaay better memory management and texture compression, possibly even enough to overcome a 11.2GB/s deficeit in bandwidth, as for coreclock, a 50Mhz deficiet is more a marketing win for nVidia rather than anything horribly conclusive ... that and im sure only the geometric clock runs that high, if it's anything like G70, the shader and ROP clocks will run the same speed as the ATi part
  2. The G71 gets a refreshing upclock -- soemthing that's been long needed, the G70 A3 staved this off a bit and showed us what potential the architecture has but availability was ... um... lack luster. With the G71 being a solid product that nVidia wont abandon in a few weeks, it will be nice to see the comparison.
 
So would waiting for the 7900 series to come out to see if the 7800 drops in price be a good idea? How much do you think it would drop?
 
ItlanChode said:
So would waiting for the 7900 series to come out to see if the 7800 drops in price be a good idea? How much do you think it would drop?
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Im not sure about that, the price of the x1800 didnt drop that fast. I bet it will be the same price for a while, even after the 7900 comes out.

And as 34erd said, waiting for the next video card is pointless, they come out so often that once you get the top of the line one, in a few months there will be a better one out.
 
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[-0MEGA-] said:
Im not sure about that, the price of the x1800 didnt drop that fast. I bet it will be the same price for a while, even after the 7900 comes out.

And as 34erd said, waiting for the next video card is pointless, they come out so often that once you get the top of the line one, in a few months there will be a better one out.
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I don't wnat the 7900.. I want the 7800, but if the price drops as soon as I buy it, I will be upset. If it drops a good amount, I could upgrade from a 4200+ to a 4400+, which is a pretty good upgrade imo, mainly because L2 Cache is a 2 x 1gb opposed to 2 x 512mb. Hmm.. think.. ahh I don't know what to do! >_< :mad:
 
7900 is near...

everyone is talking about the specs in this forum for the new 7900 but the gfx card is supposed to come out within the next week or two (beginning of march). does anyone know the pricing for this...? and would it make a big difference to get a 512mb instead of 256mb?
 
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