Biostar Announces Two GeForce 7300GT Cards

[Kougar]

The 7300GT looks like a really great alternative for anything below a 7600GT. The price is supposed to be right, although you can never tell until it hits NewEgg... :rolleyes:

Just check out the specifications on the SGate V7303GT21 though. 500mhz core, 1ghz DDR3 memory, 256mb, 128bit interface... If that one disabled quad can be reactivated that would be a mid-range card worth getting!

http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=2343 (http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=2343)

[mousiness]

whoa, thats a slick-looking and pretty amaizing performing card for a mid-range, what a difference compared to the lame 7300gs cards before, ive always went for mid-range cards and maybe this will be one of my next choices if i ever need an update for a value rig, not that mine now isnt :oops: thats quite a nice heatsink for a mid-range card, why??? :confused:

[werty316]

7300GT is the still a low end card in my view. How many pipes and vertex shaders does a 7300 have, 4 pipes and 3 vertex shaders?

[mousiness]

in my view its the same, the features on the 7300GT are almost the same as an fx5500oc, i think that whoever uses pci-e will use the power of it to the fullest, unlike just buying a low-end card for a high end I/O interface.

[werty316]

I don't think the 7300GT won't have 12 pixal pipes and 5 vertex shaders like the 7600GT has. The core is 500Mhz while the 7600GT is 560MHz and the 7300GT memory is at 1.0GHz while the 7600GT is at 1.4GHz so I don't think it compares to the 7600GT. I think the 7300GT is a low-midrange while the 7600GT is a midrange.

[mousiness]

agreed, the 7600GT is a bit higher and better than the 6600GT and as in the 6 series in comparison to the 6 and 7 series, ezuivelant to a slightly juiced up 6200oc...

the 6600Gt is to 7600GT as the 6200oc is to the 7300GT, i hope you understand what i mean. the two lowest end cards for both the 7 and 6 series...
kind of like an upgrade from the 6200 to the 7300.

[werty316]

Yep every card has a predecessor that takes it place but the 7300GT is not in the same class as the 7600GT. The 7600GT is the bare minimum for gaming.

[mousiness]

no what i meant that the 7600 is the successor for the 6600 and that the 7300 was the successor for the 6200

[werty316]

Yean I know that hehe

[Kougar]

7300GT is the still a low end card in my view. How many pipes and vertex shaders does a 7300 have, 4 pipes and 3 vertex shaders?

lol I completely didn't say. It has twice that, a full 8 pipes, with a disabled quad that if reactivated would turn it into a 7600GS or better. I can't find hard info on the vertex shaders, but it does 8 pixels per clock. The kicker is that this card is supposed to retail for about ~$70 to $80 for what I've been reading, but that remains to be seen. At least double the performance of a 7300GS part due to the hardware differences, because the 7300GT is just a 7600GS card with one less quad activated.

[werty316]

That article doesn't mention anything about it having 8 pipes but it does infact have 8 pipes.

http://www.pcstats.com/releaseview.cfm?releaseID=1446
http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=3909

Who knows if the disabled pipes and shaders can be unlocked but most likely they will be hardware disabled.

[Kougar]

That article doesn't mention anything about it having 8 pipes but it does infact have 8 pipes.

http://www.pcstats.com/releaseview.cfm?releaseID=1446
http://www.guru3d.com/newsitem.php?id=3909

Who knows if the disabled pipes and shaders can be unlocked but most likely they will be hardware disabled.

The first article on the 7300GT mentions it comes with 8 pipelines, which is also hyperlinked from the first sentence of the article I posted ;) Even if it can't be unlocked, the specs are matched for a very good performance for what it is. Hopefully it'll still keep that ~$70 price tag it was first thought to be getting...

[werty316]

Oh so thats why then; I never clicked on the link in the article you posted.