Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT review: Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT
Nvidia’s GeForce 7800 GT card continues the trend started with its 6800 GT predecessor: scale back the power of the top-of-the-line 3D card and offer it at a less stratospheric price. At $449, the GeForce 7800 GT certainly isn’t what we’d call cheap, but it’s a bit less of a sting to the wallet than the top-of-the-line $599 GeForce 7800 GTX. And for that money, you get a high percentage of the raw speed of the more expensive card, as well as full support of all the new rendering techniques that enhance both visuals and the gameplay experience.
Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT
The GeForce 7800 GT takes up a single PCI Express slot. The card uses a thinner heat sink than the GTX, which, although it’s a single-slot card, has a heat sink large enough to sometimes interfere with the adjoining slot. As you can with most recent GeForce models, you can further boost the 7800 GT’s already impressive performance by pairing it with a second, identical card if you’re using an SLI-capable motherboard. The card has a pair of DVI ports, so you can output to two LCD monitors, as well as an S-Video port.
The card includes 256MB of 500MHz DDR3 SDRAM. The core clock on the GeForce 7800 GT that Nvidia supplied us with ran at 400MHz, but many manufacturers are overclocking their cards, with some running at core clock speeds of up to 450MHz. Of course, you can overclock the card yourself using the Nvidia CoolBits overclocking application, which is accessible via a registry tweak. These speeds compare favorably with those of the GeForce 7800 GTX, which uses 600MHz memory and runs at a core clock speed of 430MHz.
Unlike the old GeForce 6800 series, however, where the only performance difference between the GT and Ultra cards was clock speed, some minor differences exist under the hood between the 7800 GT and GTX cards. Specifically, the GeForce 7800 GT has 20 pixel pipelines and 7 vertex units, compared to 24 pixel pipelines and 8 vertex units on the 7800 GTX.
How do these differences affect performance? On CNET Labs’ Half-Life 2 benchmark, the GeForce 7800 GT posted a score of 71.
5 frames per second (fps) at the highest resolution (1,600×1,200), compared to 93.9fps for the 7800 GTX. While that’s about 24 percent slower than the 7800 GTX, it’s still more than fast enough for smooth gameplay. And it’s also faster than ATI’s current top-of-the-line Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition, which managed just 60.1fps. Results were much closer in our Doom 3 tests, where the GeForce 7800 GT managed 44.7fps, compared to 50.6fps for the 7800 GTX and a mere 35.4fps for the Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition.
Despite these scores, the Nvidia cards aren’t the clear winners. Far Cry still gives them trouble. The GeForce 7800 GT managed 54.7fps in our highest-resolution Far Cry testing, respectably close to the 61.8fps achieved by the 7800 GTX. But both cards were trumped by the Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition, which brought in 64.5fps in the test. In fact, even the ATI Radeon X800 XL, a card that’s $150 less expensive than the GeForce 7800 GT, managed a very playable 50.9fps, only a few frames per second slower than the 7800 GT.
The results were much closer at a lower 1,024×768 resolution, where the 7800 GT’s 99.3fps results were very close to the 7800 GTX’s 101.6fps and the X850’s 104.5fps. Again, the less expensive Radeon X800 XL managed a respectable 2.3fps here. We saw similar results in the 7800 GTX review and conjectured that it might be due to early drivers. But it’s been two months since we first tested a 7800-series card, which in our minds is enough time to work out a software kink if there was one. Whatever the case, ATI retains the Far Cry speed title, a testimony to how well ATI’s cards handle Direct 3D-based games.
It’s not all about pure, raw speed, though. Along with support for the Pixel Shader 3.0 special effects (introduced with the GeForce 6800 series), the 7800 series adds support for High Dynamic Range (HDR) lighting, a new feature that makes lighting effects look much more realistic; both very bright and very darkly shadowed objects look significantly better, with much better texture quality on extremely lit or dim subjects.
At the moment, however, HDR lighting is showcased in only a few games: Far Cry, Painkiller: Battle Out of Hell, and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. Another addition is Transparency Adaptive Anti-Aliasing, which helps smooth out jagged edges in objects such as fences.
Nvidia’s drivers make it easy to manage performance and graphics quality with the GeForce 7800 GT. Application Profiles let you save settings such as antialiasing and filtering for individual programs; sample settings are included for a wide variety of games. If you want to connect your PC to an HDTV or use the 7800 GT as part of a Media Center PC, the version 77.72 drivers we tested do an excellent job supporting HD content. Video at 720p on a Samsung DLP HDTV looked superb, and we were able to adjust the overscan to get crisp images in both Windows and 3D games without losing part of the display around the screen borders.
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Half-Life 2 custom demo (in fps)
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
| 1,600×1,200 with 4X antialiasing and 8X anisotropic filtering | 1,024×768 with 4X antialiasing and 8X anisotropic filtering |
Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX
93.
9
141.7
Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT
71.5
118.7
ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition
60.1
134.9
ATI Radeon X800 XL
52.2
119.6
Doom 3 custom demo (in fps)
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
| 1,600×1,200 with 4X antialiasing and 8X anisotropic filtering | 1,024×768 with 4X antialiasing and 8X anisotropic filtering |
Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX
50.6
100.3
Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT
44.7
90.4
ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition
35.
4
70.5
ATI Radeon X800 XL
28
56.4
Far Cry custom demo (in fps)
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
| 1,600×1,200 with 4X antialiasing and 8X anisotropic filtering | 1,024×768 with 4X antialiasing and 8X anisotropic filtering |
ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition
64.5
104.5
Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX
61.8
101.6
Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT
54.7
99.3
ATI Radeon X800 XL
50.9
92.3
Note: ATI driver: Catalyst 5.7 (WHQL)
Nvidia driver: ForceWare 77.
77 (WHQL)
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Graphics card test bed
2.6GHz AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 CPU; (2) 512MB Corsair XMS 3200XLPRO DDR memory 1,024MB DDR SDRAM running at 400MHz; Asus A8N SLI Deluxe motherboard; Nvidia Nforce 4 Ultra-SLI chipset; Western Digital 74GB WDC WD740GD-00FLX0 SATA hard drive; Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
GeForce 7800 GT [in 1 benchmark]
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GeForce 7800 GT
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- Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
- Core clock speed 400 MHz
- Max video memory 256 MB
- Memory type GDDR3
- Memory clock speed 1000 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 7800 GT sales 11 August 2005 at a recommended price of $449. This is Curie architecture desktop card based on 110 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use.
256 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 32 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 1.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 226 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 65 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
0.83%
of a leader’s which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
GeForce
7800 GT
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3090 Ti
General info
Of GeForce 7800 GT’s architecture, market segment and release date.
| Place in performance rating | 1044 | |
| Architecture | Curie (2003−2013) | |
| GPU code name | G70 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 11 August 2005 (17 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $449 | |
| Current price | $230 (0. 5x MSRP) |
of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
To get the index we compare the characteristics of video cards and their relative prices.
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Technical specs
GeForce 7800 GT’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 7800 GT’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Core clock speed | 400 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 302 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1080 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 110 nm | of 4 (GeForce RTX 4080 Ti) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 65 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
| Texture fill rate | 8. 000 |
of 939.8 (h200 SXM5) |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on GeForce 7800 GT’s compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it’s interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |
| Length | 226 mm | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 7800 GT: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don’t have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 256 MB | of 128 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 1000 MHz | of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti) |
| Memory bandwidth | 32 GB/s | of 14400 (Radeon R7 M260) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 7800 GT.
As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
| Display Connectors | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce 7800 GT, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 9.0c (9_3) | |
| Shader Model | 3.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| OpenCL | N/A | |
| Vulkan | N/A |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of GeForce 7800 GT. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating.
We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
7800 GT
0.83
- Passmark
Passmark
This is probably the most ubiquitous benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 26%
7800 GT
244
Game benchmarks
Let’s see how good GeForce 7800 GT is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Average FPS
Popular games
Relative perfomance
Overall GeForce 7800 GT performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop video cards.
AMD Radeon HD 6450A
106.02
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
103.61
AMD Radeon HD 8330E
102.41
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
100
AMD Radeon HD 8280E
98.8
ATI Radeon HD 4550
96.39
AMD Radeon E6465
93.98
AMD equivalent
We believe that the nearest equivalent to GeForce 7800 GT from AMD is Radeon HD 8280E, which is slower by 1% and lower by 2 positions in our rating.
Radeon HD
8280E
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Here are some closest AMD rivals to GeForce 7800 GT:
ATI Radeon HD 5470
109.
64
AMD Radeon HD 6450A
106.02
AMD Radeon HD 8330E
102.41
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
100
AMD Radeon HD 8280E
98.8
ATI Radeon HD 4550
96.39
AMD Radeon E6465
93.98
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Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce 7800 GT according to our statistics.
Core 2
Duo E8400
7.5%
Athlon II
X2 250
6.3%
Core 2
Duo E7500
5%
Core i3
1005G1
3.8%
Core i7
3770
2.5%
FX
8120
2.5%
Core i5
1035G1
2.5%
Pentium
G630
2.
5%
Pentium Gold
G5400
2.5%
Pentium
G3250
2.5%
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nVidia GeForce 7800 GT — Reference Card Review
Verdict
Key Specifications
- Review Price: £299.00
Well boys and girl, nVidia’s done it again. Less than a month and a half after the launch of the GeForce 7800GTX today sees the release of its ‘little’ brother – the GeForce 7800 GT.
As with the 6800 GT this is likely to be a big hit for nVidia, offering much of the power of the 7800 GTX at a lower cost.
But whereas the 6800 GT was, bar clock speeds, the same as the Ultra, the 7800 GT does have some architectural differences to the GTX. The major one is that the GT has 20 pixel pipelines, rather than the 24 of the GTX and seven vertex shaders instead of eight. Clock speeds have been reduced too, with the core running at 400MHz compared to 430MHz for the GTX and the memory at 1,000MHz compared to 1,200MHz. That said the two retail GTX boards we’ve looked at from XFX and AOpen were both running at 450/1250MHz for core and memory so it’s not unreasonable to expect many retail GT boards to also offer a ‘free’ boost.
Aside from this the GT is the same as the GTX, based on the same 0.11 micron process. Fully present and correct is full support for Shader Model 3, High Dynamic Range and SLI – the trio that nVidia’s marketing people like to refer to as ‘the Power of Three’.
Right…
In terms of line-up the 7800GT appears to be equivalent to the 6800 vanilla, which likewise offered reduced pipelines (12 instead of 16). This means that the GTX is occupying the same space at the 6800GT did leaving space for an ‘Ultra’ type card to be released above the GTX, presumably when nVidia feels that the time is right. We can also predict that nVidia will produce 16-pipeline versions of the 7800 series when it becomes more economical to do so than producing the 16-pipeline 6800 series. These would certainly be faster than the 16-pipeline 6800 cards due to the architectural improvements that nVidia has made with the 7800 series, so it would be faster performance at a lower cost – good news for consumers. That said, this is all speculation at this juncture.
What is hard fact though is that the 7800GT is here, and from the scores it’s clear that nVidia has a winner on its hands. As you can see from the picture the PCB itself on the reference GT itself is actually shorter than that of the GTX.
With the reduction of the pipelines the power requirements have dropped so that only a 300W PSU is required compared to 350W for the GTX. The heatsink on the reference card has been tweaked and there’s no heatsink needed over the power regulator. A power connector still needs to be plugged in to the back of the cards, dual DVI is present and VIVO is supported too.
As pipelines are laid out in quads the fact that four are disabled and that one vertex shader is missing strongly hints that the GTs are in fact attempted GTX cards that haven’t make the grade. Speaking to a contact at nVidia we confirmed that this is the case. We saw this for ourselves when we installed RivaTuner, which duly recognised the four disabled pipelines and the single disabled vertex shader. The next move, clearly, was to try and enable them, which we did, but when we ran a benchmark the score had not changed indicating that the pipelines and vertex shader are disabled for the reason that they simply don’t work – so don’t get your hopes up in that regard.
Then again, this card still has more pipelines and more power than any other card, save for the 7800 GTX and, of course, is fully SLI capable.
Pricing wise you’ll find the GT cards starting at £299 with more for overclocked cards and big bundle boxes ”’(Update -prices have already dropped below £299 within the first hour)”’. nVidia also confirmed that in response to the launch of the 7800 GT, the GeForce 6800 GT would drop to £210 – with online prices again likely to be lower than this. As for the 6800 Ultra, this will pretty much fade away with not surprisingly no real interest. After all, there’s little point now that the 7800 is here.
The 7800 series certainly seems to have made a big impact, with Dell’s new XPS desktop now based around a pair of custom engineered 7800 GTX cards with an Intel CPU supporting nForce 4 chipset. With the previous XPS desktop based around ATI’s high end card of the time, the switch to nVidia by the world’s leading PC company has to be seen as a round winning double-whammy for the greens and a body blow to the reds.
In the graphs we put the card up against the retail XFX card and the scores are in line with what you’d expect with no major surprises. We ran the tests using the latest drivers. Our test bed consists of an AMD Athlon FX-55, 2 x 512MB of Crucial Ballistix PC3200 and an MSI K8N Platinum SLI motherboard. Our current tests show that at 1,600 x 1,200 with 4x FSAA and 8x AF, the 7800 GT is very comfortable producing an average score of 53.3fps in Far Cry, 46.9fps in Doom 3 and 73.4fps in Half-Life 2.
To put this in perspective I took a look back at the last test we did of an ATI high end on a similar platform. This was of a GeCube Radeon X850 XT – not quite the pinnacle of the Platinum Edition but not far off. Admittedly the nForce 4 SLI motherboard used to test this was a different brand but it’s similar enough for a valid comparison. In Far Cry, Doom 3 and Half-Life 2, at 1,600 x 1,200 with 4x FSAA and 8x AF, the X850XT scored 51.4fps, 37.3fps and 61.6fps respectively.
So while the 7800GT is definitely faster it’s not a total decimation of the ATI card. Of course nVidia can simply pull SLI out of the hat while we’re still drumming our fingers waiting patiently for R520 and CrossFire. On top of that the nVidia card offers full precision HDR and Shader Model 3 support. Yes, I’ve mentioned that Power of Three thing. Those nVidia marketing bods will be pleased.
The thing is a year ago this wouldn’t have mattered as much. There were no games with Shader Model 3 and HDR support but they’re now starting to creep up, with the Far Cry patch and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. The upcoming game F.E.A.R., (the demo of which is awesome), might also adopt Shader Model 3, as it’s recently switched from being an ATI ‘Get In the Game’ title to an nVidia ‘The Way It’s Meant to Be Played’ game.
The real finishing move for nVidia though as far as ATI is concerned is that if you want to order a 7800GT card you can head over to an online retailer such as Scan and order the card straight away and possibly have one, or even two (lend us a fiver…) in your machine tomorrow.
In fact Scan already has an overclocked 7800GT on sale for only £293.69, with a core speed of 450MHz! Of course we can expect Radeon cards to quickly drop in price, which is good news but then nVidia still has its 6800 series to match it. For ATI… that’s gotta hurt.
”’Verdict”’
There’s no doubt about it – the GeForce 7800 GT card delivers big time. It’s not far off the performance of the GTX with a saving of at least £50 or more. It’s obviously not a budget graphics card but if you’re after some high end graphics power, then this has got to be the card, or cards, to buy.
”’AMD Athlon FX-55 CPU”’
”’2 x 512MB of Crucial Ballistix PC3200 RAM”’
”’MSI K8N Platinum SLI motherboard”’
Score in detail
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Value 8
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Features 9
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Performance 9
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 Preview
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November 14, 2005
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Check out our preview of the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512. As the name implies, this is a 512MB version of the 7800 GTX, but more than just memory was added to this card. We look at reference GTX 512s in SLI and at the XFX 7800 GTX XXX Edition.
Introduction
Although the GeForce 7 Series has been very successful so far, we all knew NVIDIA was keeping something up its sleeve to respond to ATI’s 512MB Radeon X1800 XT. Many of you probably already know the name of NVIDIA’s response (a.k.a. NVIDIA’s new flagship card) and might even know what it looks like. Well, today is the official day that we can tell you all about it. Get ready for another hard launch as NVIDIA continues the trend it started to end paper launches, and say hello to the GeForce 7800 GTX 512.
This card is using the same core design of the original 256MB 7800 GTX, but it has 512MB of GDDR3 and is running at higher clock speeds thanks to a PCB redesign, new cooling solution and new higher speed RAM.
NVIDIA set the reference clock speeds for the GTX 512 to 550MHz for the core and 1.7GHz for the memory (effective), which is quite a jump up from the original GTX’s 430MHz core and 1.2GHz memory.
As I already mentioned, the 512MB GTX is NVIDIA’s answer to ATI’s X1800 XT. The interesting thing is this card is rumored to have been almost ready to go at the initial 7800 GTX launch, but it was not launched since the 7800 GTX was more than enough to hold the performance crown over the competition. You will notice that the cooler being used is the same design as that used on the Quadro 4xxx cards.
We were fortunate enough to get ahold of two reference 7800 GTX 512 cards for SLI testing, which Scott performed on a new SLI X16 motherboard. Additionally, the XFX 7800 GTX 512 we received two days ago proves the hard launch claim, and we’ll take a brief look at that card as well.
Specifications
The features for the 512MB 7800 GTX are the same as those for the original 256MB GTX.
So, let’s just skip to a quick look at the specifications of the reference 7800 GTX 512 and the XFX 7800 GTX 512 XXX Edition. XFX introduced the “XXX Edition” moniker with the recent release of its 6800 GS. The XFX 6800 GS press release has this to say about XXX:
“Products marked with the label XXX have a new level of graphics performance and experience. During selection of the components, the absolute top is being separated from the masses, including the GPU’s. During the production, only the best yield has been selected to go forward into the XXX production. During this extensive tuning process, the products are being pushed to the max and then made ready for the assembly process. This is why we have called this level of graphics cards eXtreme, eXtreme and eXtreme again, visualized into the ‘XXX’ logo. The three X’s stand for eXtreme overclocking, eXtreme performance and eXtreme cooling.”
If XFX’s offering is any indication, and surely it is, the factory overclock trend will apparently continue into this launch.
XFX has bumped both clocks by 30MHz, as you can see in the comparison table below.
| Reference 7800 GTX | Reference 7800 GTX 512 | XFX 7800 GTX 512 XXX | |
| Graphics Bus Technology | PCI Express | PCI Express | PCI Express |
| Memory Interface | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
| Memory | 256MB GDDR3 | 512MB GDDR3 | 512MB GDDR3 |
| Core Clock | 430MHz | 550MHz | 580MHz |
| Memory Clock | 1. 2GHz |
1.7GHz | 1.73GHz |
| Pixels per Clock (peak) | 24 | 24 | 24 |
| RAMDACs | 400 MHz | 400 MHz | 400 MHz |
Closer Look
You probably already noticed that this card is a beast thanks to the massive cooler that NVIDIA slapped on the chips to keep them cool. This heatpipe-based cooler is not new, though. It is used on NVIDIA’s newer Quadro cards and can be found on Leadtek’s 256MB 7800 GTX Extreme. With this cooler, the 7 Series now has a 2-slot family member. Although not ideal, I have a feeling most enthusiasts won’t mind giving up a slot for the boost in performance.
Running two of these GTXs in SLI obviously results in much more crowding than the single-slot 256MB GTX does. Take a look at these pictures from Scott’s test machine to get an idea of what I’m talking about. The first two pics show two GTX 512s installed in the Lian-Li V1200 with the Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe.
That is a little cramped for sure but not too bad. Now, take a look at the same setup but with the Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe (an SLI X16 board). Look closely, and you will realize that there is a Creative X-Fi sound card in between the two GTX 512 cards.
We will cover the XFX 7800 GTX 512 XXX in more detail in our full review of it, but for now, here are some pictures to whet your appetite.
As you can see, the XFX version only differs from the reference design in one way – the sticker on the fan. Expect to see a lot of this from retail boards since being first to the shelves seems to be more important than differentiation these days. While XFX’s X-shaped box is cool-looking, we can’t say we miss it much for this launch.
It is a pain in the butt to open, relatively speaking.
Test System & Results – Reference 7800 GTX 512
For today’s reference card testing, we are going to look at the 7800 GTX 512s in an A8N-SLI Deluxe with an AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 versus standard Leadtek 7800 GTXs. Then, we are going to move the cards onto the new Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ and see how it compares to the A8N-SLI Deluxe with the AMD FX-55. What we want to see is if the new SLI X16 motherboard and NVIDIA’s drivers that support dual core CPU’s can give us a leg up on the 200MHz faster FX-55.
- Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe / Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe
- AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
- 2 x 1GB Crucial Ballistix DDR 4000
- 3 x 250GB Maxtor Diamond 10 in RAID 5
- Lian-Li V1200
- Windows XP SP2
- Antec True Power 550W EPS12V
- Creative X-Fi Platinum Sound Card
- Graphics 1: 2 x Reference 7800 GTX 512
- Graphics 2: 2 x Leadtek WinFast 7800 GTX TDH MyVIVO GeForce 7800 GTX
- ForceWare 81.
89 and DirectX 9.0c
Unfortunately, we do not have an ATI Radeon X1800 XT on hand for comparison. When we do, you will see the comparisons in a future review. According to NVIDIA’s own testing, the 7800 GTX 512 outperforms the X1800 XT in pretty much every thing, but you should find some 3rd party results to get an unbiased confirmation (or refutation) of that claim.
Please note that all benchmarks were run with NVIDIA’s latest ForceWare drivers – 81.89.
Test System & Results – XFX 7800 GTX 512 XXX
Now, let’s take a look at the performance of a single XFX 7800 GTX 512 XXX versus the performance of two XFX 7800 GTs in SLI and a single Gigabyte 7800 GTX. Once again, this is just a quick look at a retail card. A more in-depth review will follow this article shortly. The test system for these tests is listed below and is different than the ones mentioned above.
One thing that makes the XFX 7800 GT SLI versus XFX 7800 GTX 512 comparison so interesting is the price of each setup. Two XFX 7800 GTs would cost you about $680-700 while the MSRP on the 7800 GTX 512 is $649. Actually retail prices will most likely vary from this, and we’ll try to update you with street pricing information in the morning.
Ed. – Looks like the GTX 512s are going for $749 today (11/14/05)! Hopefully the price drops soon and quickly.
- DFI LANParty NF4 SLI-DR Motherboard (review)
- AMD Athlon 64 3800+
- Corsair TWINX1024-3200XL (review)
- Maxtor 120GB Serial ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive
- Graphics 1: XFX GeForce 7800 GTX 512 XXX Edition
- Graphics 2: 2 x XFX GeForce 7800 GT in SLI
- Graphics 3: Gigabyte GeForce 7800 GTX
- Windows XP with Service Pack 2
- ForceWare 81.89 and DirectX 9.0c
Please note that all benchmarks were run with NVIDIA’s latest ForceWare drivers – 81.
89.
Final Thoughts
Shane’s Final Thoughts
With this launch, NVIDIA changes the layout of the enthusiast video card market again. The GeForce 7800 GTX 512 is aimed directly at the Radeon X1800 XT, while the GeForce 7800 GT is competing with the Radeon X1800 XL. So, where does that leave the original 7800 GTX? You can bet it will end up in the hands of plenty more gamers (especially ‘tweeners who can’t decide between the 7800 GT and X1800 XL and can’t fork over the dough for the GTX 512 or X1800 XT), especially if this launch results in price drops.
NVIDIA seems to be on a roll lately, and the 7800 GTX 512 adds more power to the NVIDIA portfolio. People who can afford it will definitely snatch it up today. Many who can’t bite that $600+ bullet quite yet will start saving or start begging Santa Claus.
Despite the $649 MSRP, I have seen multiple discussions around the Internet of guys already planning to sell their two 7800 GTXs in order to buy a 7800 GTX 512 or (gasp!) two. Still, others will be more frugal and go for two 7800 GTs.
The only fault of the 7800 GTX 512 (other than price if you don’t have a high salary) is its size. The increase in clock speeds and amount of RAM will prove to be worth it to many gamers, though. Wisely, NVIDIA didn’t rush this product out the door by slapping an extra 256MB of RAM on the original 7800 GTX and calling it good. Additionally, NVIDIA is making sure to get the boards to retailers in order to get them to consumers, which ATI is trying to do as well but hasn’t totally stepped up to the plate yet.
My experience with the XFX 7800 GTX 512 XXX has been great so far. I was really impressed by its performance in comparison to the XFX 7800 GTs in SLI and to the reference-clocked Gigabyte 7800 GTX. Check back for my review of this card soon.
Scott’s Final Thoughts
After playing several games that are CPU bound, the capability of turning on 8sAA and 16xAF and enjoying the clarity and speed of these cards in SLI is something to be experienced. Being able to fly right up to the rear of an airplane and see the detail as the tail gunner is shooting and his spent cartridges are flying out of the guns is awesome.
NVIDIA has once again given the enthusiast the ultimate graphics card, and running the 7800 GTX 512s in SLI is pure heaven.
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NVIDIA’s GeForce 7800 GT graphics cards
IF YOU’VE PURCHASED a GeForce 7800 GTX in the six weeks or so since its introduction, you may want to avert your eyes.
If you purchased a Radeon X850 XT in recent months, just close your browser window now. And if you’re a corporate executive at a certain Canadian fabless semiconductor firm, you may want to bury your head. NVIDIA is now unleashing a card based on an ever so slightly cut down version of the G70 graphics processor at a substantial discount off the price of the GeForce 7800 GTX.
An army of cooling fans has been whirring nonstop here in Damage Labs for the past week or so to bring you an extensive set of benchmarks of the GeForce 7800 GT. The short version? The 7800 GT offers near-GTX performance for at least a hundred bucks less than NVIDIA’s top-end card, and it pretty much creams anything else in its price range. Keep reading for the full story.
What makes a GT
For those of you familiar with the GeForce 7800 GTX, getting a handle on the GT will be easy. If you’re unfamiliar with the 7800 GTX, well, then you need to go read our mind-enhancing review of NVIDIA’s seventh-gen GPU.
The GeForce 7800 GT is based on the same G70 graphics processor that powers the GTX, but NVIDIA has disabled a few of the chip’s functional units for this less expensive card. I have done violence to a block diagram of a G70 GPU in order to illustrate what’s been disabled. Have a look:
Up top there, you can see that one of the G70’s eight vertex shader units, responsible for geometry processing, is crossed out with a big, red “X.” This vertex unit is not functional in the 7800 GT, so the other seven will have to do. Across the middle, one of the six pixel-pipeline “quads” is crossed out, leaving the GeForce 7800 GT with a total of 20 pixel shader units. Without the services of these deactivated vertex and pixel shader units, the 7800 GT will perform a little bit slower than the 7800 GTX.
NVIDIA has also lowered the recommended clock speeds for the 7800 GT. A bone-stock GeForce 7800 GTX runs its GPU at 430MHz and its GDDR3 memory at 600MHz, while stock frequencies on the GT are 400MHz for the GPU and 500MHz for memory.
Beyond that, little else has changed. The 7800 GT still has sixteen ROPs capable of writing one pixel per clock to memory, and it still has a 256-bit memory interface.
The cards
None of the GT’s spec changes should hamper its performance too much. The thing has more and better pixel pipes than a GeForce 6800 Ultra, for goshsakes. Still, NVIDIA’s board partners are already starting to push past the recommended specs, as they’ve done with the 7800 GTX. Two of the three brands represented in our recent 7800 GTX roundup sell “overclocked in the box” cards, and some of the same suspects are tuning up the GT. BFG Tech’s GeForce 7800 GT OC, for instance, will sell with a 425MHz GPU and 525MHz memory. Meanwhile, the XFX cards we received for review are clocked at 450MHz with 525MHz memory.
XFX’s GeForce 7800 GT
In terms of basic layout and cooler design, I’d expect at least the first wave of 7800 GT cards to be entirely similar to the XFX card pictured above.
At first glance, this looks very much like a 7800 GTXsame PCI Express connector, same dual DVI ports, same video in/out connector, same six-pin auxiliary power input. However, the 7800 GT board is actually about a half-inch shorter than a 7800 GTX, and the cooler is downsized, as well. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the 7800 GT is a smallish card; it’s still about an inch longer than a Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition. It is smaller than a GTX, though.
Board makers aren’t just overclocking NVIDIA’s GeForce 7-series cards; they’re also underclocking prices. NVIDIA’s initial estimated price on the 7800 GTX was $599, but cards are already selling for as low as $499 at online vendors. That’s no bargain, but it ain’t $599, either. In the same vein, I’d expect board makers to undercut NVIDIA’s suggested $449 list price somewhat on the 7800 GT. In fact, XFX says it will have its “overclocked in the box” 7800 GT selling at multiple online vendors, today, at $399.
Test notes
This was kind of a tough call, but because XFX shipped its 7800 GT to usa real retail product as of todaywith a 450MHz GPU clock and 525MHz memory clock, I decided to test the 7800 GT at that speed.
Boards running at NVIDIA’s stock reference frequencies will be slightly slower than the XFX card we’re testing, but our results should be directly representative of a 7800 GT card you can buy right now. Had we received these cards and their drivers sooner than this past Friday, I would have been able to test the 7800 GT at stock reference speeds, as well. Unfortunately, we just received them too late.
This decision will no doubt incite controversy because I did not include scores from an “overclocked in the box” GeForce 7800 GTX. If anyone has a coronary as a result, my apologies. You can see how an overclocked 7800 GTX performs in our multi-card roundup. The scores are more or less directly comparable to the ones in the following pages, save for the Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory numbers and a minor driver revision difference.
Speaking of which, you will notice in the test config tables below that we used NVIDIA’s 77.77 drivers for the GeForce 7800 GT and GTX cards, in both single-card and SLI setups.
This represents a total refresh of the GTX test results from our GeForce 7800 GTX review and other recent graphics articles. However, the results for the GeForce 6800 Ultra were obtained using NVIDIA’s older 77.62 drivers. Between some serious time constraints and the fact that performance barely changed at all on the 7800 GTX when moving from 77.62 to 77.77, I elected not to retest the GeForce 6800 Ultra with the 77.77 drivers. If the driver revision difference of 0.015 offends your sensibilities, just pretend the 6800 Ultra results aren’t there.
Similarly, I’ve included results from the Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition using older Catalyst 5.6 drivers. Make of them what you will.
Also, note that I’ve included scores for a Radeon X800 XL 512MB card from Abit. Radeon X800 XL cards from other vendors are currently selling for between $359 and $400, or just below the likely price range of the 7800 GT. That makes the X800 XL competition, though not 100% direct competition. The X850 XT Platinum Edition might be the most direct competition for the 7800 GT in terms of price.
I decided to include the X800 XL in part because I wanted to see how it performs at very high resolutions like 2048×1536. Perhaps the 512MB of video memory will be a help.
That said, remember that resolutions above three megapixels are something of a special case where the GeForce 7800s have architectural advantages over older GPUs.
Our testing methods
As ever, we did our best to deliver clean benchmark numbers. Tests were run at least three times, and the results were averaged.
Our test system was configured like so:
| Processor | Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4GHz | |||||||
| System bus | 1GHz HyperTransport | |||||||
| Motherboard | Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe | |||||||
| BIOS revision | 1011 | |||||||
| North bridge | nForce4 SLI | |||||||
| South bridge | ||||||||
| Chipset drivers | SMBus driver 4. 45IDE driver 5.18 |
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| Memory size | 1GB (2 DIMMs) | |||||||
| Memory type | OCZ EL PC3200 DDR SDRAM at 400MHz | |||||||
| CAS latency (CL) | 2 | |||||||
| RAS to CAS delay (tRCD) | 2 | |||||||
| RAS precharge (tRP) | 2 | |||||||
| Cycle time (tRAS) | 5 | |||||||
| Hard drive | Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB SATA 150 | |||||||
| Audio | Integrated nForce4/ALC850 with NVIDIA 4.  60 drivers |
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| Graphics | GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB PCI-E with ForceWare 77.62 drivers | Dual GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB PCI-E with ForceWare 77.62 drivers | XFX GeForce 7800 GT 256MB with ForceWare 77.77 drivers | Dual XFX GeForce 7800 GT 256MB with ForceWare 77.77 drivers | MSI GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB PCI-E with ForceWare 77.77 drivers | Dual MSI GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB PCI-E with ForceWare 77.77 drivers | Abit Fatal1ty X800XL 512MB PCI-E with Catalyst 5.7 drivers | Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition PCI-E with Catalyst 5.6 drivers |
| OS | Windows XP Professional (32-bit) | |||||||
| OS updates | Service Pack 2 | |||||||
Thanks to OCZ for providing us with memory for our testing.
If you’re looking to tweak out your system to the max and maybe overclock it a little, OCZ’s RAM is definitely worth considering.
Unless otherwise specified, the image quality settings for both ATI and NVIDIA graphics cards were left at the control panel defaults.
The test systems’ Windows desktops were set at 1280×1024 in 32-bit color at an 85Hz screen refresh rate. Vertical refresh sync (vsync) was disabled for all tests.
We used the following versions of our test applications:
- trdemo2 demos
- Far Cry 1.3 with tr1-volcano and tr3-pier demos
- Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory 1.04 with trpenthouse demo
- The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay 1.1 with trdemo4
- FutureMark 3DMark05 Build 120
All the tests and methods we employed are publicly available and reproducible. If you have questions about our methods, hit our forums to talk with us about them.
Pixel filling power
We can handicap the 7800 GT’s performance prospects to some extent by looking at some key theoretical performance numbers.
The raw ability to paint pixels onscreen at a certain rate isn’t exactly destiny for today’s graphics cards, but it’s still an important metric. Here’s how the 7800 GT stacks up.
| Core clock (MHz) |
Pixels/ clock |
Peak fill rate (Mpixels/s) |
Textures/ clock |
Peak fill rate (Mtexels/s) |
Memory clock (MHz) |
Memory bus width (bits) |
Peak memory bandwidth (GB/s) |
|
| GeForce 6800 | 325 | 12 | 3900 | 12 | 3900 | 700 | 256 | 22. 4 |
| GeForce 6600 GT | 500 | 4 | 2000 | 8 | 4000 | 1000 | 128 | 16.0 |
| Radeon X800 | 400 | 12 | 4800 | 12 | 4800 | 700 | 256 | 22. 4 |
| GeForce 6800 GT | 350 | 16 | 5600 | 16 | 5600 | 1000 | 256 | 32.0 |
| Radeon X800 XL | 400 | 16 | 6400 | 16 | 6400 | 980 | 256 | 31. 4 |
| GeForce 6800 Ultra | 425 | 16 | 6800 | 16 | 6800 | 1100 | 256 | 35.2 |
| GeForce 7800 GT | 400 | 16 | 6400 | 20 | 8000 | 1000 | 256 | 32. 0 |
| Radeon X850 XT | 520 | 16 | 8320 | 16 | 8320 | 1120 | 256 | 35.8 |
| Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition | 540 | 16 | 8640 | 16 | 8640 | 1180 | 256 | 37. 8 |
| XFX GeForce 7800 GT | 450 | 16 | 7200 | 20 | 9000 | 1050 | 256 | 33.6 |
| GeForce 7800 GTX | 430 | 16 | 6880 | 24 | 10320 | 1200 | 256 | 38. 4 |
A stock 7800 GT has a higher theoretical peak multitextured fill rate (the more important kind, usually) than a GeForce 6800 Ultra, but a little less than a Radeon X850 XT. The XFX card we’re testing today, though, can push more multitextured pixels than even a Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition. In terms of memory bandwidth, the 7800 GT is closer to the Radeon X800 XL. This mix of pixel fill rate and memory bandwidth puts the 7800 GT in an interesting place.
Let’s see how the theory translates into performance with some basic synthetic fill rate benchmarks.
These results track pretty well with the theoretical capabilities of the cards. As one would expect, the XFX 7800 GT comes out just ahead of the Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition in multitextured fill rate. The 7800 GT doesn’t trail the 7800 GTX by too terribly much, either. Let’s see how these numbers translate into performance in games.
Doom 3
We’ve conducted our testing almost exclusively with 4X antialiasing and a high degree of anisotropic filtering.
We generally used in-game controls when possible in order to invoke AA and aniso. In the case of Doom 3, we used the game’s “High Quality” mode in combination with 4X AA.
Our Delta Labs demo is typical of most of this game: running around in the Mars base, shooting baddies. The new and imaginatively named “trdemo2” takes place in the game’s Hell level, where the environment is a little more varied and shader effects seem to be more abundant.
Notice how that orange line snuggles up just underneath the green one through all four resolutions in both graphs. The 7800 GT just barely trails its big brother, the 7800 GTX, in Doom 3. With SLI, the story is the same, but at much higher speeds. The ATI cards just can’t keep up.
Far Cry
Next up is Far Cry, which takes advantage of Shader Model 3.0 to improve performance. The game also has a path for ATI’s Shader Model 2.0b. Our first demo takes place in the jungle with lots of dense vegetation and even denser mercenaries.
All of the quality settings in the game’s setup menu were cranked to the max.
Our next demo takes place on the Volcano level, where there’s a whole lot of heat shimmer going on. Pixel shading power should be at a premium here.
Far Cry is much more of a contest, as the performance of the Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition tracks very closely with the 7800 GT’s at the three lower resolutions. Also, the Radeon X800 XL 512MB seems to benefit from having more memory onboard here. Note that it surpasses the GeForce 6800 Ultra and the Radeon X850 XT PE at 2048×1536.
The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
This game has a Shader Model 3.0-type mode, but to keep things even for comparison to the Radeon, I ran all cards with the SM2.0 path.
Like Doom 3, Riddick is an OpenGL game. That may explain in part why the ATI cards struggle so much here; NVIDIA’s OpenGL drivers may be better. Whatever the case, the 7800 GT puts in a heckuva showing, again trailing the GTX by only a hair.
Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory
We’re using the brand-new 1.04 version of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory for testing, and that gives us some useful tools for comparison. This new revision of the game includes support for Shader Model 2.0, the DirectX feature set used by Radeon cards. The game also includes a Shader Model 3.0 code path that works optimally with GeForce 6 and 7-series GPUs. Because SM2.0 and SM3.0 can produce essentially the same output, we’ve tested the ATI cards with SM2.0 and the NVIDIA cards with SM3.0. (The game won’t let NVIDIA cards run in SM2.0 mode, although they are capable of doing so.)
In our first test, we enabled the game’s parallax mapping and soft shadowing effects. In the second, we’ve also turned on high-dynamic-range lighting and tone mapping, for some additional eye candy. Due to limitations in the game engine (and in NVIDIA’s hardware), we can’t use HDR lighting in combination with antialiasing, so the second test was run without edge AA.
The Radeon X850 XT PE is more than competitive with parallax mapping and soft shadows enabled, but the 7800 GT separates itself from the ATI card once HDR lighting comes into play. The ATI cards don’t have dedicated hardware with floating-point texture filtering and blending capabilities, so they have to rely on their pixel shaders to do the job. The G70’s native support for 16-bit floating point filtering and blending probably gives it an edge.
3DMark05
The 7800 GT’s performance in 3DMark’s three main game tests more or less confirms what we’ve seen elsewhere. The GT is faster than the Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition, and it can nearly keep up with the 7800 GTX. SLI, of course, opens up a whole new realm of speed.
The G70’s revamped pixel shaders allow the 7800 GT to post some astounding numbers in 3DMark’s pixel shader test, well above the fastest card that ATI has to offer and just below the 7800 GTX once again. As for vertex shaders, it seems the 7800 GT’s one disabled vertex unit isn’t much of a handicap.
The GT’s scores track very closely with the GTX’s, although the Radeon X850 XT PE is the fastest single card in the vertex shader benchmarks.
Power consumption
We measured total system power consumption at the wall socket using a watt meter. The monitor was plugged into a separate outlet, so its power draw was not part of our measurement. The idle measurements were taken at the Windows desktop, and cards were tested under load running a Doom 3 timedemo of our “trdemo2” in High Quality mode at 1280×1024 with 4X antialiasing.
The system based on the 7800 GT draws less power, both under load and when idle, than the systems based on cards it outscores in the benchmarks, including the GeForce 6800 Ultra and the Radeon X850 XE Platinum Edition. In fact, at idle, the 7800 GT system pulls fewer watts than anything in the group.
These results aren’t surprising given how quiet the 7800 GT’s cooler is. At idle, the thing is simply inaudible over the sound of the CPU and chipset coolers in our test system.
Under load, the cooler is audible on an open test bench, but probably wouldn’t be when placed inside of a computer case.
Overclocking
I was able to overclock a single 7800 GT card to 491MHz core/565MHz memory simply by using the built-in speed detection button in the NVIDIA driversthat’s 41MHz over the XFX’s stock GPU speed and 91MHz over the NVIDIA-recommended speed. Things were a little different with two 7800 GTs in SLI, where NVIDIA’s utility picked a 475MHz max core clock speed with 540MHz memory. In both cases, my attempts to push for higher core speeds manually were unsuccessful. Nevertheless, the cards were stable at the speeds that the driver chose for them, with no visible artifacts and no crashes.
The 7800 GTX’s slight edge evaporates when the 7800 GT is overclocked to its limits. Of course, there’s some overclocking headroom built into the GTX, as well, so that’s no surprise. Still, the 7800 GT’s overclocked performance is impressive.
Conclusions
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.
If it’s absolute performance you crave, then grab yourself a pair of 7800 GTs and run them together in SLI. A 7800 GT SLI rig ought to satisfy even the most insanely graphics-crazed person. Personally, though, I wouldn’t spring for a full SLI setup right now, because few current games really need that kind of power. I’d stick to a one-card setup, but I’d make darn sure my motherboard would allow me to add a second card down the road.
As for the competition from ATI, well, realistically, it hasn’t been introduced yet.
The current Radeon lineup remains quite good, but it can’t keep pace with the 7800 GT, let alone the GTX. We’re still waiting for ATI’s CrossFire dual-graphics platform to arrive, and perhaps some next-generation cards not long after that. Until that happens, the GeForce 7800 GT is clearly the card to have at the $400-ish price point. Given the fact that 7800 GT cards should be available immediately at online vendors, ATI definitely has some catching up to do.
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX — IGN
By Chris Roper
Updated: Oct 24, 2011 10:36 pm
Posted: Jun 22, 2005 1:00 pm
It’s been over a year since NVIDIA first unveiled its GeForce 6-series line of GPUs. The 6800 GT is still selling very strong to this day and an SLI 6800 Ultra setup remains the highest-performing graphics rig you can put together. The 6600 GT is arguably the best bang-for-your-buck on the market today, and with SLI support it’s ready for the future as well. Still though, it’s been a year since the introduction of the 6800 series and the usual 6 month speed-bump never occurred, leaving gamers wondering what NVIDIA was up to.
NVIDIA today answers that question as it’s officially ushering in its next-generation graphics card, the GeForce 7800 GTX. Has it been worth the wait? Simply put, hell yeah.
Before we get into the card’s nitty-gritty details, let’s spill the beans on one of the coolest facts: the GeForce 7800 GTX is available now. As in, if the trucks and planes headed out of various warehouses across the world have reached their destination by now, you should be able to head down to your local computer shop or hop online and buy one. Now, we’re not exactly sure of the quantity of cards put out by various makers so they very well may wind up in short supply very quickly, but GeForce 7800 GTX cards are indeed purchasable from various outlets, both of the online and brick-and-morter variants.
But before you run out and pick one of these suckers up, let’s go through the details. Firstly, the GeForce 7800 GTX is the only announced GPU in the GeForce 7-series line. That is, there is no Ultra vs.
GT vs. «vanilla» comparison to be made at this time. There’s only one GPU, and though we expect some card makers to play with its clock speeds a bit, the only type currently announced is the 7800 GTX.
Speaking of clock speeds, let’s get into the raw details and numbers. The GeForce 7800 GTX is a PCI Express design, and while it may or may not see an AGP version at some point in the future (we’d bet good money it will), as of now it’s PCI Express-only. The reference cards we’re seeing come equipped with 256MB of GDDR3 RAM. It may surprise some folks that it doesn’t default with 512MB, though current memory requirements for games and certainly costs play a major point in this.
And even with 256MB of RAM this isn’t a cheap card. Retailing for $599, a GeForce 7800 GTX is not an impulse buy. Comparatively though, it’s only $100 more than a GeForce 6800 Ultra retails for today and the performance increase is well worth the extra bill.
Back to the numbers game, the 7800 GTX is a 300+ million transistor design (that’s a whole lot).
Its core clock runs at 430MHz while its GDDR3 memory runs at 600MHz. Comparing this to the 425/550MHz ratings of a 6800 Ultra may make the card seem like a very tiny upgrade, but that’s not the end of the story.
The most «numbers friendly» increase that the 7800 GTX has seen over its predecessor is a bump to 24 pixel shaders and 8 vertex shaders, which is up from 16/6 from the previous generation’s fastest cards. By a raw pixel pipeline count one would assume that the card would see a 50% or so speed increase over a 6800 Ultra, but that’s only part of the puzzle.
The GeForce 7800 GTX GPU has also had its pixel shaders reworked in order to make them more efficient with the most commonly used operations. NVIDIA analyzed over 1,300 shaders used in various current and upcoming games to see exactly what sorts of math calculations game designers are using most. It’s pretty much impossible for us to measure the performance gains with regard to this, but according to NVIDIA’s own tests they’ve seen a performance increase of up to 50% when compared on a clock-per-clock, shader unit-per-shader unit basis.
Feature-wise, the GeForce 7800 GTX supports SLI and SM3.0 of course, like the 6-series of cards. The GPU also features full 128-bit floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline with native support for 32bpp, 64bpp and 128bpp rendering modes, as well as 64-bit texture filtering and blending. HDR (High Dynamic Range) is of the things that NVIDIA is striving to allow for in upcoming games without having to sacrifice performance, and this card seems to be ready with open arms.
The 7800 GTX also features transparency filtering, or in other words, anti-aliasing for the insides of textures. Standard anti-aliasing only works on the edges of polygons, leaving edges produced from transparent textures (like fences, leaves and such) jagged and unfiltered. Transparency filtering takes care of this and smooths out the edges inside of textures, making for a much cleaner image.
The focus of the card is running games at very high resolutions with maxed out quality settings, including anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering, at framerates that you’d normally see from other cards (even the 6800 series) at lesser resolutions with much lower detail.
In other words, you won’t really see much difference at 800×600 with no filtering, but once you compare the card to others running at 1600×1200 with the filtering cranked up then you’ll see where this card shines.
One thing that we can’t test at this point is ultra-GPU-intensive next-generation engines like Unreal Engine 3, for rather obvious reasons. We’ll have to rely on NVIDIA’s numbers for any sort of performance numbers on UE3 games, but its example is showing better than 2X the performance on a 7800 GTX when compared to a 6800 Ultra at high resolutions. The actual conditions (meaning the areas, characters on-screen, etc.) of the benchmarks weren’t discussed so it’s hard to say if the difference will actually be this great between the two cards during general gameplay, but judging from some of the benchmarks we’ve ran and then assuming how much those extra pixel shaders will help the 7800 GTX in an engine where everything is pixel shaded, then we’d guess that this is a reasonable estimation.
Before we get to the benchmarks (which are next, we promise), one last point to hit is that the GeForce 7800 GTX is both quieter and requires less power than a 6800 Ultra. Whereas a 6800 Ultra required somewhere around 110W of power to run, the 7800 GTX needs about 100W. As we mentioned, the card is also quieter than the previous generation’s high-performance cards. It’s not silent mind you as the fan can still kick up if you’re listening for it, but it is quieter. Lastly, the card is a single-slot solution, so it’s not only more efficient but thinner as well. It is a tad longer than a 6800 GT as you can see from the photo below, but only by a tad.
Click for a larger image.
And now as promised, on with the benchmarks…
Our test setup is as follows:
First, let’s take a look at how Doom 3 faired.
We ran the default timedemo on Ultra Quality settings at all times.
This provides the first clue as to why this card is meant to be run at higher resolutions. Notice that with Doom 3 the card seems to scale at roughly the same percentage at the 6800 GT and X850 XT PE while running 8xAF/4xAA. The card certainly isn’t invincible, it’s just strong as hell.
Next, on to Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory.
Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory
You’ll notice here that the 7800 GTX is quite a fair margin ahead in every instance, though it does take more of a performance hit with 4xAA enabled than the RADEON X850 XT PE. The ATI card is still clocked faster than the 7800 GTX so that may help play a role in this, as well as the fact that since about the 9700 Pro or so ATI has had very nice scalability with its cards with respect to anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing.
Regardless of the AA hit, the numbers the 7800 GTX puts up with Splinter Cell 3 are quite impressive.
Next, let’s take a look at Half-Life 2.
Half-Life 2
The Source engine has proven to be a very, very solid engine performance-wise, and even though Valve’s technology is heavily driven by shaders, Half-Life 2 is already a pretty CPU-bound game.
Still, we’re throwing up these benchmarks to show that while the 6800 series would falter a bit at the higher resolutions and filtering settings, the 7800 GTX keeps pace without breaking a sweat.
Take a gander at the benchmarks.
Next, on to Far Cry.
Far Cry
With Far Cry you can see that NVIDIA has done a lot of work to keep the card running smoothly with anisotropic filtering and anti-aliasing turned on. The card scales much better than the 6800 series did, and with a game that mostly caps out at around 65fps for our system this is great scalability.
Performance does falter a bit once 4xAA hits, but Far Cry is a fairly geometry-intensive game so this makes sense.
Lastly, on to F.E.A.R. and 3DMark05.
3DMark05
First we’ll hit 3DMark05. The 7800/6800 comparison is reasonably interesting here because there’s an almost perfect 50% increase from the 6-series to the 7.
Hmm, yeah. That’s about all we’ve got for that one, so look at the pretty graph.
F.E.A.R. Stress Test
We’ve saved what’s potentially the best for last here. The F.E.A.R. beta comes complete with a video stress test that really, really stresses your system. This is about as next-gen as we can test currently so this is probably the most interesting and future-telling of everything we ran.
We ran the demo with everything set to Maximum at 1600×1200, 16xAF/4xAA.
We’re seeing a 50%+ improvement over both the 6800 GT and the X850 XT PE with the F.E.A.R. stress test. Quite impressive indeed.
That’s a Wrap
So there you have it, the GeForce 7800 GTX. Quite an impressive card, indeed.
Now, those folks hoping to go from 240 to 395fps in Quake 3 at 640×480 won’t find that here. This is a card made to run smoothly under intensive situations and it does that well. It scales better than the GeForce 6-series of cards so it seems like NVIDIA has indeed done its homework and not only beefed up the cards innards but tweaked, prodded and poked until it worked cleaner and better as well.
If you have $600 in your pocket go pick one (or two) up and then turn up those settings.
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NVIDIA
GeForce 7800 GT
- PCIe 1.0 x16 interface
- Core frequency 400 MHz
- Video memory size 256 MB
- Memory type GDDR3
- Memory frequency 1000 MHz
- Maximum resolution
Description
NVIDIA started GeForce 7800 GT sales on August 11, 2005 at a suggested price of $449.
This is a desktop video card based on the Curie architecture and 110 nm manufacturing process, primarily designed for office use. It has 256 MB of GDDR3 memory at 1 GHz, and coupled with a 256-bit interface, this creates a throughput of 32.00 Gb / s.
In terms of compatibility, this is a single-slot PCIe 1.0 x16 card. The length of the reference version is 226 mm. An additional 1x 6-pin power cable is required for connection, and the power consumption is 65W.
It provides poor performance in tests and games at the level of
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General Information
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Features
GeForce 7800 GT’s general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. They indirectly speak about GeForce 7800 GT’s performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
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Information on GeForce 7800 GT compatibility with other computer components. Useful for example when choosing the configuration of a future computer or to upgrade an existing one. For desktop video cards, these are the interface and connection bus (compatibility with the motherboard), the physical dimensions of the video card (compatibility with the motherboard and case), additional power connectors (compatibility with the power supply).
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Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 7800 GT. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference video cards, since for laptop ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model.
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| Opencl | N/A | VULKAN | N/A | |
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This data also includes the architecture used by the manufacturer and the video processor code name. | Performance Rating Position: | 972 | |||
| Architecture: | Curie | |||
| Code name: | G70 | |||
| Type: | Desktop | |||
| Release date: | 22 June 2005 (16 years ago) | |||
| Starting price: | $599 | |||
| Current price: | $50 (0.1x MSRP) | |||
| Value for money: | 0.15 | |||
| GPU code name: | G70 | |||
| Market segment: | Desktop | |||
Specifications
This is important information that determines all the performance characteristics of the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX graphics card.
The smaller the technological process of manufacturing a chip, the better (in modern realities). The clock frequency of the core is responsible for its speed (direct correlation), while signal processing is carried out by transistors (the more transistors, the faster the calculations are performed, for example, in cryptocurrency mining).
| Core Clock: | 430MHz | |||
| Number of transistors: | 302 million | |||
| Process: | 110nm | |||
| Power consumption (TDP): | 86 Watt | |||
| Number of texels processed in 1 second: | 10.32 | |||
| Number of transistors: | 302 million | |||
| Estimated heat output: | 86 Watt | |||
Dimensions, connectors and compatibility
There are many form factors of PC cases and laptop sizes today, so it is extremely important to know the length of the video card and its connection types (except for laptop versions).
This will help make the upgrade process easier, as Not all cases can accommodate modern video cards.
| Interface: | PCIe 1.0 x16 | |||
| Length: | 228 mm | |||
Memory (frequency and overclocking)
The internal memory is used to store data when performing calculations. Modern games and professional graphics applications place high demands on the amount and speed of memory. The higher this parameter, the more powerful and faster the video card. Memory type, size and bandwidth for NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX + turbo overclocking option.
| Memory type: | GDDR3 | |||
| Maximum RAM amount: | 256MB | |||
| Memory bus width: | 256 Bit | |||
| Memory frequency: | 1200 MHz | |||
| Memory bandwidth: | 38. 4 GB/s |
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Support for ports and displays
As a rule, all modern video cards have several types of connections and additional ports, for example HDMI and DVI . Knowing these features is very important in order to avoid problems connecting a video card to a monitor or other peripherals.
| Display connections: | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video | |||
API Support
All APIs supported by the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX graphics card are listed below. This is a minor factor that does not greatly affect the overall performance.
| DirectX: | 9.0c (9_3) | |||
| OpenGL: | 2.1 | |||
Overall gaming performance
All tests are based on FPS. Let’s see how the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX ranks in the gaming performance test (the calculation was made in accordance with the recommendations of the game developer for system requirements; it may differ from real situations).
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| Description | |
| 5 | Stutter — The performance of this video card with this game has not yet been studied enough. Based on interpolated information from graphics cards of a similar performance level, the game is likely to stutter and display low frame rates. |
| May Stutter — The performance of this video card with this game has not yet been studied enough. Based on interpolated information from graphics cards of a similar performance level, the game is likely to stutter and display low frame rates. | |
| 30 | Fluent — Based on all known benchmarks with the specified graphic settings, this game is expected to run at 25 fps or more |
| 40 | Fluent — According to all known benchmarks with the specified graphic settings, this game is expected to run at 35fps or more |
| 60 | Fluent — According to all known benchmarks with the specified graphic settings, this game is expected to run at 58 fps or more |
May Run Fluently — The performance of this video card with this game has not yet been sufficiently studied. Based on interpolated information from graphics cards of a similar performance level, the game is likely to show smooth frame rates. |
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| ? | Uncertain — testing this video card in this game showed unexpected results. A slower card could deliver higher and more consistent frame rates while running the same reference scene. |
| Uncertain — The performance of this video card in this game has not yet been studied enough. It is not possible to reliably interpolate data based on the performance of similar cards in the same category. | |
| The value in the fields reflects the average frame rate across the entire database. To get individual results, hover over a value. | |
AMD equivalent
AMD Radeon HD 6230
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NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX in benchmark results
Benchmarks help determine the performance in standard tests NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX.
We have compiled a list of the most famous benchmarks in the world so that you can get accurate results for each of them (see description). Pre-testing the graphics card is especially important when there are high loads, so that the user can see how the graphics processor copes with calculations and data processing.
Overall performance in benchmarks
NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M
NVIDIA QuadroFX 880M
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX
AMD Radeon HD 6230
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
Passmark is an excellent benchmark that is updated regularly and shows relevant graphics card performance information.
NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M
NVIDIA QuadroFX 880M
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Compare NVIDIA GeForce 210 and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 210 and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT video cards by all known characteristics in the categories: General information, Specifications, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions, requirements, API support, Memory, Technology support.
Analysis of video card performance by benchmarks: PassMark — G3D Mark, PassMark — G2D Mark, Geekbench — OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 — Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 — Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 — T -Rex (Fps).
NVIDIA GeForce 210
versus
NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
Benefits
Reasons to choose NVIDIA GeForce 210
- Newer video card, release dates difference 4 year(s) 2 month(s)
- times more frequency(s)3.5 : 1402 MHz vs 400 MHz
- A newer manufacturing process for the video card makes it more powerful, but with lower power consumption: 40 nm vs 110 nm
- 2.1 times less power consumption: 30.5 Watt vs 65 Watt
- Maximum memory size is 2 times more: 512 MB vs 256 MB
| Release date | 12 October 2009 vs 11 August 2005 |
| Core frequency | 1402 MHz vs 400 MHz |
| Process | 40 nm vs 110 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 30. 5 Watt vs 65 Watt |
| Maximum memory size | 512 MB vs 256 MB |
Reasons to choose NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
- 92% faster texturing speed: 8 GTexel / s vs 4.16 GTexel / s
- 2x more memory frequency: 1000 MHz vs 500 MHz
- 2.5x faster performance in PassMark — G3D Mark benchmark: 244 vs 97 a) more: 273 vs 37
| Texturing speed | 8 GTexel/s vs 4.16 GTexel/s |
| Memory frequency | 1000 MHz vs 500 MHz |
| PassMark — G3D Mark | 244 vs 97 |
| PassMark — G2D Mark | 273 vs 37 |
Benchmark comparison
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 210
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT
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| Name | NVIDIA GeForce 210 | NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT |
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| PassMark — G3D Mark | 97 | 244 |
| PassMark — G2D Mark | 37 | 273 |
| Geekbench — OpenCL | 2438 | |
GFXBench 4. 0 — Manhattan (Frames) |
497 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 — Manhattan (Fps) | 497 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Frames) | 688 | |
| GFXBench 4.0 — T-Rex (Fps) | 688 |
Feature comparison
| NVIDIA GeForce 210 | NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT | |
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| Architecture | Tesla 2.0 | Curie |
| Codename | GT218 | G70 |
| Production date | October 12, 2009 | 11 August 2005 |
| Price at first issue date | $29. |
$449 |
| Place in the ranking | 1524 | 470 |
| Price now | $32.99 | $80 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Price/performance ratio (0-100) | 6.81 | 3.16 |
| Core frequency | 1402MHz | 400 MHz |
| Number of CUDA conveyors | 16 | |
| Floating point performance | 39. |
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| Process | 40nm | 110nm |
| Maximum temperature | 105 °C | |
| Number of shaders | 16 | |
| Texturing speed | 4.16 GTexel/s | 8 GTexel/s |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 30.5 Watt | 65 Watt |
| Number of transistors | 260 million | 302 million |
| Audio input for HDMI | Internal | |
| Video connectors | 1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA, DVIVGADisplayPort | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
| HDMI | ||
| Maximum resolution VGA | 2048×1536 | |
| Multi-monitor support | ||
| Tire | PCI-E 2. |
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| Height | 2.731″ (6.9 cm) | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 1.0 x16 |
| Length | 6.60″ (16.8 cm) | 226 mm |
| Additional power connectors | None | 1x 6-pin |
| DirectX | 10.1 | 9.0c |
| OpenGL | 3.1 | 2.1 |
| Maximum memory size | 512MB | 256MB |
| Memory bandwidth | 8. |
32.0 GB/s |
| Memory bus width | 64 Bit | 256 Bit |
| Memory frequency | 500MHz | 1000MHz |
| Memory type | GDDR2 | GDDR3 |
| CUDA |
GeForce 7800 GTX – start of 3D-scenes assembly line
Apparently, the orientation towards European integration of our country is beginning to manifest itself in the IT-sphere. If the first acquaintance of our laboratory with the GeForce 6800 family took place only three months after the official announcement (due to the complete absence of products in the country), then the newest 7800 GTX appeared with us immediately after the announcement, and it was not a technical sample, but a finished product from the company Leadtek. Well, the delivery time of new products is now European, let’s hope that their price will soon be similar.
The GeForce 6 product series is just now starting to gain momentum in Ukraine. Undoubtedly, its main strong point is the line of 6600/6600GT chipsets, which today in the AGP and PCI-E versions are, in fact, a kind of standard in the mainstream sector. With older models, such as 6800/GT/Ultra, the situation is not so clear: firstly, the price makes itself felt, sometimes turning out to be sky-high for the average user. Secondly, the position of the main competitor is very strong in the hi-end class. And just as the Ukrainian market began to get used to 68xx products, NVIDIA has already announced the next generation of solutions — the 7800 GTX series. Looking ahead, let’s say that the new core does not differ from the previous one in anything special in the field of 3D rendering, since it uses the old set of SM 3.0 shaders. Performance has certainly increased due to another increase in the number of pipelines, but are there so many tasks where the speed of, say, 6800GT will not be enough, not to mention the SLI mode? Is the 7800 GTX released simply to support a tight schedule of new graphics core releases, or out of a need to get ahead of the competition? The «Testing» section will help answer this question in more detail, but for now let’s look at . ..
Specifications
Specifications for reference graphics cards
If you remember that the G70 graphics core was previously called NV47, it immediately becomes clear why the changes compared to the previous series are mostly cosmetic. The technical process has decreased to 0.11 microns — the frequencies of the processor have increased. Since pipelines for modern GPUs are, as it were, hinged elements, it was not difficult for engineers to add 8 more for basic operations and 2 for working with vertices. Officially, the models start with a minimum memory size of 256 MB, but in the future, options up to 1 GB of GDDR3 memory on board are possible. The design of the board has been significantly improved — the developers decided to return the single-slot advantages to the flagship cards (for how long?), and, accordingly, the cooling system was transformed. So far, only PCI Express versions of the 7800 GTX are known, and according to NVIDIA representatives, AGP versions are not to be expected.
Trends in modern game development
Both companies seem to have finally realized that the technology embedded in the chip means almost nothing without optimized software that allows you to really use these features. By the way, the technical presentation of the 7800 GTX in Paris (Computer Review, No. 25, 2005) was based precisely on the principles of software primacy, i.e. a fragment of a real (!) game was shown and it was explained what kind of technologies were used to build that or another scene. According to the developers of game engines, the next global changes in the field of game development will concern the further development of lighting and the maximum use of shaders.
Real lighting
Lighting has long been one of the main problems of hardware 3D, since the capabilities originally built into both the GPU and the API obviously did not allow creating at least some semblance of realism on the screen: a maximum of eight point light sources are not able to convey the beauty of the world. With the advent of new three-dimensional technologies, this situation should change dramatically.
HDR (High Dynamic Range) Rendering (high dynamic range). Allows you to increase the dynamic range of lighting by more than 200 times. When building traditional light maps, the maximum illuminated object differs from the maximum shaded one by only 256 gradations. True or not, according to experts, the human eye is able to recognize 11,000 times more. Using this technology, it is possible to obtain noticeably softer transitions between zones with different light intensities. Objects such as a forest with sun rays breaking through, an underwater world, a room with various light sources now look much more realistic. Vivid examples of this are the game Far Cry and the latest version of Splinter Cell, which, thanks to HDR, make you distract from the gameplay and admire the beauties of the world around you.
Volume Object Light (volumetric light sources). Again, previous technologies only allowed the creation of point or «elongated» cylindrical light sources. In the near future, game engines will start using real volumetric light, which can come from complex objects. For example, a chandelier with three light bulbs hidden under a frosted translucent glass of arbitrary shape should look like a single Volume object that gently illuminates the room, and not like three sources of diffused light. This technology allows you to introduce another innovation — soft shadows.
Soft Shadows The shadow edges of an object lit by a non-point light source will now become lighter and blurry. This technology should prove itself especially well in scenes with several light sources of various nature. This approach, together with Indirect Illumination, allows you to get an almost perfect picture, very close to reality.
Indirect Illumination (secondary illumination of objects). A classic example that explains how this technology works is light entering a room through a window. In the traditional version, we will see a projection of a window on the floor, dark walls and a completely black ceiling (in case the floor surface is not reflective). In fact, only completely black objects do not reflect light, so in reality the floor will become an object of secondary volumetric lighting, which will “brighten” the walls and ceiling. For practical implementation, these technologies require huge computing resources (the same gigaflops), first of all for floating point operations. Modern graphics processors can work even with 128-bit FP format data, but still, the performance of the latest generation of accelerators based on NVIDIA G70 and ATI R520 will certainly not be enough for all the above technologies to show their full potential in real time.
Shaders
| Battlefield 2 will use the new 3D technologies implemented in the GeForce 7800 GTX |
Games become more detailed every day, which, in turn, leads to an increase in the number of polygons in scenes, the number of textures applied to objects and, accordingly, to an increase in the volume of the game itself and the data transmitted via the accelerator bus. In order not to stop the progress of image quality, but to save resources, some developers have chosen a scheme using high-poly character models and a low-poly world around, using pixel shaders as much as possible. That is, the largest number of objects should be described parametrically (by a shader routine), and not drawn in the editor. It turns out a funny situation — the 3D trend that arose about 6 years ago, when it was desirable to create all models in a volumetric form, has changed exactly the opposite: the more 3D objects can be represented in a shader way, the less data will have to be processed by the GPU. But the «mass» use of shaders does not at all mean a reduction in the load on the graphics card chip, so in order to achieve an acceptable speed when drawing detailed characters (or nearby objects) and a shader background (grass, sky, water, forest, etc.) increase the number of conveyor blocks. Now it is 32 (24 pixels, 8 vertices), but models with almost 50 pipelines are not far off.
On the one hand, this approach really makes it possible to display a 3D scene on the screen without the use of giant rendering farms, which previously could only be created in Pre-rendered mode. On the other hand, it becomes clear that every time it will be more and more difficult for programmers to fulfill their duties. Creating complex objects with subroutines is sometimes equivalent to writing music by a deaf composer. This begs the question: to what level of realism can the use of shaders bring? In other words, what is the most complex object that can be described parametrically?
To summarize this section, we can say the following: the implementation of modern pixel and vertex shaders can be compared with the hardware models of Adobe Photoshop and 3ds MAX, respectively, since the functions of forming and modifying 2D/3D objects in these programs will now be carried out directly powerful GPUs of new graphics cards.
Testing
First of all, I would like to touch upon the performance characteristics of the new video card. Indeed, the use of a cooler instead of a turbine significantly reduced the noise level, but had a negative impact on the quality of cooling. In the case of «intensive» use of the 3D mode, the heating of the radiators exceeds the pain threshold (more than 70 ° C), but this does not lead to freezes. Verdict: The 7800 GTX is suitable for well-ventilated cases. The declared power consumption of the new devices also raises doubts, according to preliminary estimates, in 3D mode they require an average of 5-10 W more than the 6800 Ultra, which does not correspond to official data.
The most interesting results are the performance figures in Far Cry and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory — these are the games that are able to load the G70 graphics core at full capacity. In Far Cry, the speed and quality of the 3D image at «normal» settings with maximum quality are practically the same as those of other test participants. However, when using HDR technology, the picture quality changes beyond recognition, and the gap between the 6800 Ultra and 7800 GTX is more noticeable due to the larger number of FPU units in the older model.
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is by far the most «advanced» game in terms of the use of 3D technologies. In addition to the possibility of using shaders 3.0, you can additionally use HDR , Parallax-mapping (development of bump-mapping taking into account the viewing angle), tone-mapping (similar to the auto-layers function in Photoshop — a more uniform distribution of lighting), Soft Shadows (blurred contours of shadows taking into account the viewing angle), which are activated separately. An interesting note — when switching to shaders 3.0, the performance increases (!), while at the same time the quality of the 3D image improves. However, using additional features dramatically reduces performance — by 30 fps for the 7800 GTX and 25 for the 6800 Ultra. It can also be seen that the new game is explicitly optimized for SLI technology, which gives an almost twofold increase in performance.
Unreal Tournament 2004 shows significant differences when using «heavy» anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering modes. ATI X850XT PE practically does not reduce performance in comparison with the «clean» mode, in contrast to standalone NVIDIA products. The impact of the SLI mode is also noticeable, in which the mentioned changes no longer affect performance.
| Processor | AMD Athlon 64 3800+ (Socket 939) |
| Motherboard | MSI K8N Diamond (nForce4 SLI chipset) |
| Memory | GEIL PC4200 (DDR533), 2×512 MB |
| Memory test modes | 400 MHz, timings 8-4-4-2.5 |
| Video card | ASUS EN6800 Ultra, WinFast PX 7800 GTX |
| Hard disk | Western Digital WD1600 160 GB 7200 rpm) |
| OS | Windows XP Professional SP2, DirectX 9.0c |
Summing up
Perhaps the GeForce 7800 GTX can be called the first card optimized for shaders 3. 0 and new lighting mechanisms. However, the G70 core itself, of course, cannot be considered revolutionary — rather, it is a good example of the development of the ideas embodied in the NV40. It’s too early to evaluate the real performance of the new graphics accelerator (after all, two games are obviously not enough), but with further improvement of drivers and the appearance of new games, the gap between the 7800 series and the 6800 will only increase. We can also note the improvement of SLI technology. Of course, the ideal state is still far away, but there are obvious improvements: two 7800 GTX easily coped with the tasks.
It’s also difficult to guess what the rankings will look like after the appearance of the R520: the announcement of new ATI solutions is postponed indefinitely. The problem is rumored to be getting 32 pixel pipelines working. But as soon as the Canadian company manages to switch to a 90-nanometer process technology, a new round of confrontation between the two giants will begin.