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Galaxy GeForce 7600 GS up-close and personal ..
Armed with the development codename G73, the 7600 GS chip was made on the newer 90nm fabrication process. For a mid-range product it has a rather large transistor count, no less than 177 million transistors can be found on both the GeForce 7600 GS and GT silicon.
You might ask .. what's different on this Galaxy card compared to the regular GeForce 7600 GS and GT then ?
It's a valid question and we'll answer it. Get this, 12 pixel pipelines running at a 500 MHz frequency (Default GS is at 400 MHz, GT is pushing 540 MHz) with five active vertex processors. Again the product has eight ROPs. The memory however is still 128-bit whereas I hoped it would have been boosted to 256-bit. But it's really fast clocked 1.2ns DDR3 memory namely 1400 MHz (2x700) which is similar to the GT and and way less than the standard GS series have. That is looking to be quite okay in my eyes. Judging from the specifications this product should be able to compete with the middle segment of current mid-range graphics cards such as the GeForce 6800 GT/7600GT.
$ffffffffff Display adapter information
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$0000000000 Description : NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS
$0000000001 Vendor ID : 10de (NVIDIA)
$0000000002 Device ID : 0392
$0000000003 Location : bus 5, device 0, function 0
$0000000004 Bus type : PCIE
$000000000f PCIE link width : 16x supported, 16x selected
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$ffffffffff NVIDIA specific display adapter information
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$0100000000 Graphics core : NV4B/G73 revision A2 (12pp,5vp)$0100000001 Hardwired ID : 0391 (ROM strapped to 0392)
$0100000002 Memory bus : 128-bit
$0100000003 Memory type : DDR2 (RAM configuration 03)
$0100000004 Memory amount : 262144KB
$0100000100 Core clock domain 0 : 504.000MHz
$0100000101 Core clock domain 1 : 504.000MHz
$0100000102 Core clock domain 2 : 504.000MHz
$0100000006 Memory clock : 711.000MHz (1422.000MHz effective)
$0100000007 Reference clock : 27.000MHz
The card is targeted at a very wide audience with a sales price of 150-170 USD, which is just an excellent price considering the product even comes with a Zalman cooler for an inaudible experience, I expect prices to fall even further though. This product is a 256MB version as mid-range is now moving on to that amount of memory
Just like the 7600 GT; the 7600 GS has SLI support also. And since it's a Series 7 product you can expect dual-link DVI for extremely high resolution gaming up-to 2560x1600 (XHD as the industry would love to call that = Extreme High Definition) and all the sweetness in the form of HDR support and that finally important Shader Model 3.
Allow me to place everything in a chart to understand the technology behind the 7600 GS a tad better:
Please focus on the chart below where I cite the more important specifications. Highlighted in blue you'll notice the Galaxy products specs.
NVIDIA GeForce 6 & 7 Product Lineup Specifications | ||||||
Product Name |
# pixel processors |
# vertex processors |
Bus width |
Memory Type/Amount |
GPU Speed |
RAM Speed |
GeForce 7900 GTX | 24 | 8 | 256-bit | GDDR3/512MB | 650-700MHz | 1600 MHz |
GeForce 7900 GT | 24 | 8 | 256-bit | GDDR3/256MB | 450MHz | 1320 MHz |
GeForce 7800 GTX | 24 | 8 | 256-bit | GDDR3/512MB | 560MHz | 1600 MHz |
GeForce 7800 GTX | 24 | 8 | 256-bit | GDDR3/256MB | 430MHz | 1200MHz |
GeForce 7800 GT | 20 | 7 | 256-bit | GDDR3/256MB | 400MHz | 1000MHz |
GeForce 7800 GS | 16 | 6 | 256-bit | GDDR3/256MB | 375MHz | 1200MHz |
GeForce 7600 GT | 12 | 5 | 128-bit | GDDR3/256MB | 560MHz | 1400MHz |
GeForce 7600 GS | 12 | 5 | 128-bit | GDDR3/256MB | 500MHz | 1400MHz |
GeForce 7600 GS | 12 | 5 | 128-bit | GDDR2/256MB |
GeForce 6800 Ultra
16
6
256-bit
GDDR3/256MB
400MHz
1100MHz
GeForce 6800 GT
16
6
256-bit
GDDR3/256MB
350MHz
1000MHz
GeForce 6800 GS PCX 12 5 256-bit GDDR3/128/256MB 425MHz 1000MHzGeForce 6800 GS AGP 12 5 256-bit GDDR3/128/256MB 350MHz 1000MHzGeForce 6800
12
5
256-bit
GDDR/128MB
325MHz
700MHz
GeForce 6800 LE
8
4
256-bit
GDDR/128MB
320MHz
700MHz
GeForce 6600 GT 8 3 128-bit GDDR3/128/256MB 500MHz 1000MHzGeForce 6600 8 3 128-bit GDDR/128MB 300MHz 275(550)GeForce 6200 4 3 64/128-bit GDDR/128MB/256MB 300MHz 275(550)As you can see Galaxy did some remarkable stuff with this GS, it has much faster clocks on both memory and core which brings the product VERY close to the 50 bucks more expensive 7600 GT.