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NVIDIA 7950 GT Roundup - Speedbump to High End

Videocards/VGA Reviews by geoffrey @ 2006-12-03

At the beginning of September NVIDIA released their reincarnation of the G71 based GeForce 7900 GT. As midrange card the 7900GT seem to be the best buy for a big group of gamers in the first half of 2006. This time around they’ve given the mid-range card a speed boost to high end! With world leading VGA partners offering their version right away let´s see which can give us the best 7950 GT.

Test setup & Benchmark methodology

Test setup

Geoffreys' Intel Test Setup
CPU	Intel E6300 @ 3GHz
Cooling	Boxed
Mainbord	Asus P5B
Memory	2x1Gb Mushkin XP5300 CAS 3
Other	OCZ Powerstream 600W PSU Maxtor 80Gb PATA HDD 20" Dell UltraSharp 2007FP TFT monitor

The CPU was running at 3GHz by setting the front side bus to 430MHz and keeping the multiplier at default (7). The memory was running @ 430MHz (860MHz DDR) with 5-5-5-12 timings 1/1 with the FSB.

ForceWare 91.47 drivers

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Benchmark methodology

All tests were done with a 20” LCD monitor with maximum resolution of 1600*1200. For mid/high-range VGA cards this resolution can be quite stressful in newer games especially when higher quality settings are enabled like anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering.

These resolutions and IQ were tested:

1280*1024 2xAA/4xAF

1280*1024 4xAA/16xAF

1600*1200 2xAA/4xAF

1600*1200 4xAA/16xAF

FRAPS was used to measure the FPS during repeated manual run-throughs of a certain part of the game tested, the minimum, maximum and average values were recorded.

Quake 4

Serious Sam 2

Call of Duty 2

F.E.A.R.

Oblivion

Battlefield 2

Note: most games allow resolutions to be set to 1280x1024, but with F.E.A.R. and Battlefield 2 through the menus you can only set 1280x960, it's required to manipulate the these games .ini configuration files to be able to set 1280x1024.

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