XFX Geforce 7900 GS Video Card Review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by thorgal @ 2006-09-18

There are people on this planet that will spend over $1000 dollar on a graphics subsystem. But there are far more people around that just want to spend about $200-250 on an excellent, allround graphics card. If you fit in the last category, The XFX 7900GS might very well be the card you're looking for...

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Call of Duty 2

Call of Duty 2

Call of Duty is perhaps one of the most demanding games on your computer hardware. Some real differences can be measured here from one card to the next.

We used FRAPS to monitor the minimal and average frame rate as we played through a section of the game demo of CoD2.

Let's start again at 1280x1024, without optimisations :
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Adding some AA and AF is definately taxing :
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Moving over to 1600x1200 :
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Final test with optimisations enabled :
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In Call of Duty 2 the missing pipes come into play : not counting the 1280x1024 4/16 test, the 7900GT is 30-50% faster than a standard 7900GS. But what a difference the factory OC of the XFX makes : the extra speed on core and memory really plays out now and makes for an exellent performance boost, closing the gap with the GT to 10-20%.

For a final game test, let's have a look at Battlefield 2 ->
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Comment from piotke @ 2006/09/17
Good work Thorgal !
Comment from Sidney @ 2006/09/17
This card OCs very well. Nicely done Thorgal
Comment from thorgal @ 2006/09/18
Thanks guys.

I enjoyed testing this card, as I always like products that are able to run a bit above their spec

Question remains whether you go for a 7900GT or this card, but I can tell you that without vmods the XFX is faster. It's all a question of how far you're willing to go...
Comment from Sidney @ 2006/09/21
My card shows artifacts after a couple weeks of use at default speed
Comment from jmke @ 2006/09/27
return for RMA!
Comment from Sidney @ 2006/11/17
I did; and received another one that has been working fine for a month No time to play any game since last summer.

 

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