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EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GTX CO SuperClock Review |
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Written by Mavke
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Saturday, 08 April 2006 |
The Inquirer reports about a review on the EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GTX CO SuperClock graphics card. NVIDIA released the G71 cards and naturally EVGA, Gainward, XFX and BFG managed to overclock the cards. The G71 is a die shrink of the G70, features 24 pixel pipelines with each featuring two shader units, reference clocks of 650MHz core and 1600MHz GDDR3 memory. Well the overclocking companies managed to get even more out of it. EVGA, just for an instance, released its e-GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB card clocked at 690MHz core and an absolutely whopping 1760MHz memory. The card is equipped with a quad heat pipe cooler, and looks almost identical to GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB cards, as a matter a fact it is just a little bit faster.
 EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GTX CO SuperClock Review
The EVGA card is definitely fast and it will be among the fastest amongst the GeForce 7900 GTX cards. My only issue is that the ATI Radeon X1900 XTX is getting to close and wins in at least half of the cases. I have to say that the R580, Radeon X1900 XTX can support HDR rendering with FSAA while NVIDIA's G70 and G71 cards can not. ATI has an advantage with its video features so it is really a close call. The EVGA card definitely run quieter as NVIDIA has superior heat pipe cooler. ATI wins with FSAA and Aniso on and trust me it will be silly to own this card and not to use FSAA and Aniso at high resolutions.
If you have €650 to spare for a video card, you should at least afford a €400 20.1 inch TFT display that can run 1600x1200 or 1680x1080 resolutions and turn the all effects on. Otherwise it simply doesn't make any sense to go for high end GPU as it will be CPU limited at 1024x768. If you prefer NVIDIA you go ahead and buy the EVGA e-GeForce 7900 GTX CO SuperClock, but it will cost you some €700 in the Euroland. The only issue is that the cheapest available Radeon X1900 XTX costs €487. This is a huge difference but the answer is always yours.
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