NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT Video Card Review

Test System

For testing purposes I used the following system:

Test System:

Video Card Test Platform
Component	Brand/Model	Live Pricing
Processor	AMD Athlon 64 4800+	Click Here
Motherboard	DFI NF4 SLI-DR	Click Here
Memory	2GB Crucial PC-4000	Click Here
Hard Drive	Western Digital Raptor 74GB	Click Here
Cooling	Vapochill Micro	Click Here
Power Supply	OCZ PowerStream 600W	Click Here
Operating System	Windows XP Professional	Click Here

Please note that for all tests, excluding 3D Mark 2006, Nvidia image quality settings were set from “Quality” to “High Quality.” ATI image quality settings were left at “High Quality” with “High Quality Anisotropic Filtering” enabled in Catalyst Control Panel.

Cards Tested:

• XFX 7900 GTX
• Nvidia 7800 GTX 512
• Nvidia 7900 GT
• XFX 7600 GT
• ATI X1900XTX
• ATI X1900XT
• ATI X1800XT
• ATI X1800 GTO

Video Drivers:

• NVIDIA Forceware 84.17 BETA
• ATI Catalyst 6.3

Platform Drivers:

• NVIDIA nForce4 6.7