XFX GeForce 7950 GT 570M Extreme
Intro, Specs, and Bundle
Last week NVIDIA officially launched the $199 GeForce 7900 GS, and jointly announced the $299 GeForce 7950 GT. In our coverage of the GeForce 7900 GS, we were able to reveal the 7950 GT's specifications and features, but were asked to reserve posting any benchmark results until the cards were made available. Well, here we are only one week later and that day has come. As of September 14, you should be able to purchase GeForce 7950 GT cards from your favorite retailer.
The GeForce 7950 GT we'll be evaluating today comes by way of XFX. In typical XFX fashion, the company has mutliple GeForce 7950 GT offerings in their product stack, the $299 PV-T71J-YHF9, which is clocked at NVIDIA's reference specifications of 550MHz / 1.4GHz, and the $329 PV-T71J-YHE9 which is not only clocked a bit higher at 570MHz / 1.46GHZ, but also sports a silent, passive cooling solution.
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GPU Clock: 570MHz Memory Clock: 1.46GHz (effective) Memory: 512MB GDDR3 NVIDIA CineFX 4.0 Shading Architecture Vertex Shaders Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Vertex Shader 3.0 Displacement mapping Geometry instancing Infinite length vertex programs
Pixel Shaders
Next-Generation Texture Engine
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NVIDIA Digital Vibrance Control (DVC) 3.0 Technology ._DVC color controls ._DVC image sharpening controls NVIDIA SLI Technology ._Patented hardware and software technology allows two GPUs to run in parallel to scale performance ._Scales performance on over 60 top PC games and applications NVIDIA PureVideo Technology ._Dedicated on-chip video processor ._High-definition H.264, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration ._Advanced spatial-temporal de-interlacing ._Inverse telecine (2:2 and 3:2 pull-down correction) ._High-quality video scaling ._Video color correction ._Microsoft Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) supports multiple video windows with full video quality and features in each window Composited Desktop Hardware Engine ._Video post-processing ._Real-time desktop compositing ._Accelerated antialiased text rendering ._Pixel shader-driven special effects and animation Advanced Display Functionality ._Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048x1536 at 85Hz ._Dual-link DVI capability to drive the industry's largest and highest resolution digital flat panel displays up to 2560x1600 ._Integrated HDTV encoder provides analog TV-output (Component/Composite/S-Video) up to 1080i resolution ._Full NVIDIA nView multi-display technology capability Advanced Engineering ._Designed for PCI Express x16 ._Designed for high-speed GDDR3 memory Operating Systems ._Windows XP/XP 64/ME/2000 ._Built for Microsoft Windows Vista ._Linux ._Macintosh OS X XFX Unique Features ._Double Lifetime Warranty Software/Game Bundle ._Driver CD ._Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter Accessories Bundle ._User Manual ._1 x S-video cable ._1 x HD Out Dongle ._2 x DVI-to-VGA adapter ._PCI Express power cable
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XFX ships their GeForce 7950 GT 570M Extreme (model PV-T71J-YHE9) with a very good assortment of software and accessories. In addition to the obligatory user's manual and driver CD, XFX includes an HD component output dongle, an S-Video cable, a dual-Molex to 6-pin PCIe power adapter cable, and a pair of DVI-to-DB15 monitor adapters. The best part of the bundle, however, is the full retail version of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter. It's no longer a $50 cutting edge title, but Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter is much newer and more advanced than the games others typically bundle with their cards. Kudos to XFX for throwing in a game that can actually take advantage of some of the card's leading-edge features.
