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Review: GeForce 7900 GT and GTX mini-roundup: eVGA and XFX

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 7 June 2006, 07:09

Tags: EVGA, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), XFX (HKG:1079)

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System Setup and Notes

Hardware

  • GeForce 7900 GT and GTX Test Systems
Processor(s) AMD Athlon 64 FX-57
2.8GHz, single-core, 1MiB L2 cache, San Diego
Mainboard(s) ASUS A8N32-SLI (nForce4 SLI x16)
ASUS A8R32-MVP (ATI Xpress 3200)
Memory 2GiB; Corsair TWINX2048-3500LL XMS PRO
Memory Timings 2.0-3-2-6 @ 400MHz, 1T
BIOS Versions 1103
Disk Drive 160GB Seagate Barracuda ST3160812AS 7200.9 SATA
Graphics Card(s) eVGA e-GeForce 7900 GT CO Superclocked™ (550/790)
XFX GeForce 7900 GTX XXX Edition (700/900)
eVGA e-GeForce GeForce 7900 GTX CO Superclocked™(690/880)

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT (450/660)
ATI Radeon X1900 XTX (650/775)
Graphics Driver NVIDIA ForceWare 84.21
ATI 8.231-060221a1-030895C-ATI (CATALYST 6.3)
Operating System Windows XP Professional, SP2, 32-bit

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Software

  • Game Software
  • Far Cry
  • Quake 4
  • Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory

Notes

Tests were run a minimum of three times and the median result reported. If values weren't part of a repeatable set, they were discarded and obtained again. Driver defaults were used throughout and stock clocks for all hardware was used unless otherwise noted.

If you have any questions about our testing methods, please feel free to ask at any time in the HEXUS.community.

The eVGA GT gets to fight a reference-clocked example and the GTXs get ATI's Radeon X1900 XTX to bang heads with. Should be fun. We use our mouldy old game tests for the analysis, which we'll update in due course.