Gainward still likes to be different. Everyone announced their GeForce 7900 GS 256MB cards but the red company announced a 512MB one. That's not all, as it overclocks like crazy, and it really gives faster cards such as the GeForce 7900 GT a run for the money. The company didn't just take NVIDIA's reference design and put its sticker on it. It changed the cooler and made the card look really fancy. The black cooler covers the whole card and cools it very quietly and efficiently. As like all NVIDIA partners, Gainward uses the G71 chip with only 20 pipelines enabled. It is cheaper than the GeForce 7900 GT cards but this baby can be overclocked for quite a bit. - The Inquirer

Gainward BLISS 7900 GS 512MB PCI Express Review

The Gainward BLISS 7900 GS uses a core that works at 450MHz and memory that works at 1320MHz. The card is, naturally, PCI Express and if those clocks sounds familiar I can say that they are the same as the GeForce 7900 GT clock speeds. The card uses Samsung 1.4ns memory chips and the memory can be overclocked to the sky. Gainward uses the G71 chip which comes still with the old NVIDIA logo. Gainward still uses its nicely designed box that has a nice lady on the front and a significant sticker to remind you that the card has 512MB of memory. So again a cool box for an awesome Gainward product.

We initially tested the card at its 450MHz core and 1320MHz memory and compared it with GeForce 7900 GT clocked at the same speeds. Then we decided to include GeForce 7600 GT, the card that used to be the king of €199 market and. We managed to overclock the card to an astonishing 654MHz core, 4MHz faster than the GeForce 7900 GTX core speed and 1600MHz memory. Bear in mind that GeForce 7900 GTX has four pipelines more but we expected to get better scores than the GeForce 7900 GT and we did. Gainward also has a 256MB version of the card, which is obviously cheaper.

We are impressed with the overclocking potential of this card. It will dominate over the default clocked GeForce 7900 GT in every single case. Even when not overclocked, it will be just slightly slower than the GeForce 7900 GT. Gainward made a great card and with a price of around €220 it makes a great buy. It is silent, it overclocks like crazy and performs faster than the default clocked GeForce 7900 GT. It beats the hell out of the good old GeForce 7600 GT card. So it should be considered as a good upgrade even for guys who own one of those lovely GeForce 7600 GT cards.

We will have to compare it with ATI cards as well, but we can hardly think of an ATI card that can beat this performance at this price, maybe the Radeon X1950 PRO, as the RV570 chip stands a chance but we are sceptical about it. The Gainward BLISS 7900 GS 512MB is a card that I can simply recommend to anyone as it makes a difference at a super attractive price.