NVidia today officially announced their new GPU, the GeForce 7800 GTX. Clocked at 430mhz and equipped with 600Mhz GDDR3 memory and 24 pixel pipelines, the PCI-Express only card is available right now at "major online retailers". The cards won't come cheap though, expect to spend at least $599. Previews with plenty of benchmarks can be found at Tech Report, HardOCP and AnandTech. How about a little something on Battlefield 2 performance

Right now Battlefield 2 will probably be the concern of most gamers. This game has been much anticipated and, as a gamer, we are sure you want to know which card is going to play it better. Well, before the GeForce 7800 GTX arrived we could have easily said that the Radeon X850 XT-PE would play it best. As our gameplay analysis shows, the ATI X850 XT-PE seems to simply play the game better. However, once we throw the GeForce 7800 GTX in the mix, the tables flip rapidly. The GeForce 7800 GTX improves performance greatly allowing a high resolution with Transparency AA. We were delighted to see such a large increase in performance with SLI and found we could enable TR SSAA at 4x with two GeForce 7800 GTX. This game suffers from a lot of aliasing as there is a lot of vegetation. You will want a video card that can run this game at a high resolution with Anti-Aliasing that can apply AA to the vegetation for the best image quality in this game. The GeForce 7800 GTX not only provides this, but it also does it with extremely fast performance.