NVidia Announces GeForce 7800 GT
New NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT Available for Back-to-School Season is an NVidia press release estimating that after paying tuition, people can also afford $449 for a videocard. Compared to the GTX, the GT has one less vertex shader unit and lower memory clock speed, but the rest is pretty much the same. Tech Report has a preview with benchmarks and all that. HardOCP reviews the BFGTech GeForce 7800 GT.
So, like I said at the outset, the card is fast, and it's less expensive than the GeForce 7800 GTX. The performance differences between the two were narrowed a little bit in our testing because we used an "overclocked in the box" GeForce 7800 GT and a stock-clocked GTX. Even so, I'd have a hard time finding the justification for spending an extra hundred-plus dollars on a 7800 GTX now that the 7800 GT has arrived. None of these cards are cheap, but the 7800 GT is easily a better value than its pricier sibling. Either card will get you the full feature set of NVIDIA's G70 GPU, and the performance delta between them isn't huge.
""one less vertex shader unit" and 4 fewer pixel pipes. No big whoop."53 Comments
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