Nvidia 7600 GS AGP Cards Launched Today!

Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
edited July 2006 in Science & Tech
AGP isn't dead yet and graphic chip developers and add-in-card manufacturers are responding to apparently still existing demand. Nvidia quietly launched an AGP version of its 7600 GS with first cards surfacing today.

According to Nvidia, the new cards offer the same specifications as the PCI Express versions, including a 400 MHZ core clock, a 400 MHz RAMDAC, twelve pixel pipes, five vertex shaders, 256 MB memory and a 128-bit memory interface. The company said that depending on the manufacturer, 7600 GS AGP cards will be priced between $160 and $200.
Among the first cards to be announced is Albatron's "AGP7600GS". The company claims that the device provides a 25% performance increase over its predecessor (6600 GT) while consuming less power and generating less heat.
Source: TG Daily

Comments

  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited July 2006
    About time I nolonger need to recomend X1600pro's :).
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Do you think the 7600 is faster than my 6800GT?
  • edited July 2006
    Do you think the 7600 is faster than my 6800GT?


    No - see the thread "Gaming system specs guide for the casual gamer" in the Graphics forum.

    Bill
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Then why did they make it if the 7600 is slower, just because it supports HDR or what?
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited July 2006
    Do you think the 7600 is faster than my 6800GT?
    Not it has lower clocks an intherior memory interface (Only a 128bit rather then the 256bit on your curent card) and less pipelines.
  • Sledgehammer70Sledgehammer70 California Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    yes airbormflight, when looking at a graphics card it really isn't the core speed and memory that count... If they don't have a higher floating point all that power gets bottlenecked on the card and without the pixel pipes it still gets Bottlenecked.
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