Gainward 7950 GX2 is the wanna-have top-end card

[zachig]

WE GOT HOLD of an Nvidia retail 7950 GX2 card and played a little with it.
Nvidia dropped the price to a reasonable sub $/€ 600, or around £400 in the UK, so now this card really goes after ATI's X1900 XTX as a single card rather than an attack on Crossfire X1900 XTX systems.
To make it even more difficult for ATI, Gainward and Nvidia cut the price further at press time, down to €525, while ATI dropped the price of a single X1900XTX to €399 to stave off the attack from Nvidia's new beast. The Geforce 7950 GX2 is not much more that a shorter PCB Geforce 7900 GX2 card. Nvidia didn't notch up the wildest success with its Quad SLI systems powered with two 7900 GX2 cards but the new card is the way to fix it. The PCB is significantly shorter and now this card can fit in most computer cases out there. This was not true of the 7900 GX2.

Read the FULL article HERE (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=32502).

[Kougar]

That is interesting... thanks for the link :)

However I was just now looking at NewEgg... Is it just me or does $370 for a new retail x1900XT sound rather... low?? The only 7950GX2 card they had was coming in at $580.

Guess I'll have to look up some 7950GX2 vs x1900XT benchmarks now.

[zachig]

With the recent 7950GX2 release, prices of 7900GT, 7900GTX, X1900XT, X1900XTX, are going down, my friend...:lol: That was expected...:wink:

[Kougar]

Well, it wasn't expected by me! I figured it'd be just like the 512mb 7800GTX card, that didn't really affect the lower market bracket prices, but instead just created it's own super-super-high market bracket. Same happened with the Asus dual-7800GTX card they built, long before the 7900GX2 was out there.

You're right though, there's now a Diamond Viper x1900XT going for $360 shipped now, after a more normal $40 MIR over on ZZF. :)

[zachig]

That why I say it's the best time now (or in a week or two...:roll:) to by a new X1900XT/X or 7900GT/X Video Card. One can find great deals at the moment...:wink:

[pc_man_iac]

I have read a lot of reviews and it seems to perfrom in between a 7900gtx/gt sli setup sometimes beeting the 7900gtx, sometimes losing, but either way for its price I think it is one damn good card, considering 2x7900gt's cost abit more I think its a great deal, plus you also get to brag about how cool your video card is like howmany ppl can say that they got one of those badboys

[zachig]

Yeah, altough a single 7950GX2 gives you less performance than 2x7900GTX in SLI configuration, it's damn worth it, as for the price you're paying for it you get a great bang-for-the-buck while also beating 2x7900GT SLI configuration...:grin: