Three flavors of PCIe 7800GTX @ $599 in stock at Newegg !

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John Lewis

Much credit to nVidia and its partners for a first in recent video
card retail history.

Immediately RETAIL-available (at the stated list price too!) on
announcement.

Kills the Ebay (and other) parasites preying on those "who
must have everything first"

Review at www.anandtech.com.

Since the 7800GTX is roughly equivalent to dual 6800GT SLI,
the price is not at all out of line.

Challenges Ati to deliver retail product synchronous with
announcement on their upcoming Crossfire and
R520 offerings.
 
John said:
Much credit to nVidia and its partners for a first in recent video
card retail history.

Immediately RETAIL-available (at the stated list price too!) on
announcement.

Kills the Ebay (and other) parasites preying on those "who
must have everything first"

Review at www.anandtech.com.

Since the 7800GTX is roughly equivalent to dual 6800GT SLI,
the price is not at all out of line.

Challenges Ati to deliver retail product synchronous with
announcement on their upcoming Crossfire and
R520 offerings.
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John Lewis

"Technology early-birds always turn out to be flying guinea-pigs"
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"The latest offering from NVIDIA does not offer a host of new features
or any upgraded shader model version support as have the past few
generations. The NV4x architecture remains a solid base for this product
as the entire DirectX 9 feature set was already fully supported in
hardware. Though the G70 (yes, the name change was just to reconcile
code and marketing names) is directly based on the NV4x architecture,
there are quite a few changes to the internals of the pipelines as well
as an overall increase in the width and clock speed of the part. This
new update much resembles what we saw when ATI moved from R300 to R420
in that most of the features and block diagrams are the same as last
years part with a few revisions here and there to improve efficiency."


Kinda sounds to me like it's just a faster version of what already
exists... not a "next generation" part like the R520. Am I missing
something?
 
Read just a little more carefully. 7800GTX will FULLY support Longhorn
UI for instance....seems as if nVidia has designed a highly practical
forward-looking product for the PC marketplace.
not a "next generation" part like the R520. Am I missing
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Yes indeed, the R520..........

No doubt because ATi engineering is furiously endeavoring to bale
out the Xbox360 swamp. Zero real Xbox360 hardware at Computex
and shipment now four months away, to catch the Thanksgiving
season. Would not want to disappoint Bill G.....

Meanwhile nVidia can use the 7800 user-experiences to hone
the RSX chip-design and its drivers having the slight luxury of
the more relaxed schedule on the PS3 introduction.
 
How "next generation" can you get, really? There's no new DirectX version
for additional features. RAM technology is at the limits. The only thing
that can be done is to add more vertex and pixel shader units.

To put things in perspective, though, a single 7800GTX is equal in
performance to SLI'd 6800Ultras, but crams everything into a single-slot
solution, with less power consumption than a X850XT. Remember the Voodoo3?
 
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