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Kougar
05-10-2006, 09:22 PM
May 15 will bring us an eight pipe 90nm GeForce

On Monday of next week, NVIDIA will announce the new GeForce 7300GT graphics card. This card is a 90nm G73 based GeForce 7600GS with one quad disabled and a lower core clock. Thus the ASIC will have a 350MHz core clock with 8 total pixels per clock. While this is very similar to the NVIDIA 7300GS, the 7300GT will still retain the 128-bit memory interface. The G72 ASIC only features 4 pixels per clock as well, so the 7300GT will surely hold the performance crown on the low end for some time.

Like other recent GeForce capable cards, the 7300GT is SLI-ready with the Detonator 90 series drivers. The 7300GT will not need an SLI bridge in order to get the full performance of SLI. PureVideo is also alive and well on the 7300GT.

http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=2233 (http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=2233)
werty316
05-10-2006, 09:27 PM
Interesting that it doesn't required a SLi bridge. Also a comment was posted that the Gigabyte 7300GT is just a rebadged 7300GS.
Kougar
05-10-2006, 10:22 PM
Interesting that it doesn't required a SLi bridge. Also a comment was posted that the Gigabyte 7300GT is just a rebadged 7300GS.

Yeah, I thought it was interesting Mwave was trying to scam buyers like that. With those specs the 7300GT oughta be a fairly decent card at a great price when it's officially released... and naturally I wonder if it can be unlocked to a full 7600 part.

ATI already offers Crossfire setups that also don't require any sort of bridge for lower end cards... It'll be interesting when they develop special chipsets with the dedicated SLI/Crossfire only interconnects to support bridgeless SLI/Crossfire on the higher end cards.
werty316
05-10-2006, 10:29 PM
I think you mean ATi's Crossfire Master card. ATi cards don't use a SLi bridge. The X1800GTO doesn't require a Crossfire master card. I don't think having a bridge or bridgeless as a requirement is a big deal. What I hope for is if nVidia will allow mix and matching cards like Crossfire can and not same GPUs only for SLi.