7200 in February, 7600 in March 2006

Nice! Thankyouverymuch. 128bit, eh? Ah well. I suspected as much, tho it'd certainly be nice to have a permenant move to 256-bit in the mainstream one of these days. I look forward to seeing the die size.

 

Some tests: http://www.3dnews.ru/video/geforce_7600gs_7600gt/index.htm

 

The first paragraph using a translator:

"Warning - initial data for this study are based exclusively on the rumors, accessible in the free sources in the network, and the assumptions of the author, generated by his imagination. We bear no responsibility in such a case, when videokarty by the name 7600GT/GS are have completely different characteristics or even completely not will be never released. However, if such videokarty nevertheless will appear, and even they will possess similar characteristics - we do not bear responsibility for agreement or noncoincidence of the results of those given in this article and obtained as a result of testing real videokarty"

 

Errr, so "We made them all up and are just hoping for lots of hits from silly Americans who can't read Russian to know we are actually telling them we just made it all up"?

That about cover it?

 

They seem to have modified an ASUS EN7800GTX TOP, using a bios editor & rivatuner, to the rumoured specs of the 7600 GS/GT to get those results. There's still the problem of the 256-bit memory bus used, which they overcome by doing some extrapolation for the '128-bit mem bus' result.

 

It does look that using faster memory far outweighs increased width at least cost ways. The spec of the 7600GT looks like half way between 6600GT and 6800GS. I would think the performance will tend towards the 6800GS or even more so and be at reduced cost to nvidia.

I assume the ultra is 16 pipes though as there seems a big gap between 7800GT and the 7600GT ??

 

What...?

 

a 16 pipe ultra would be a different chip, and we shouldn't see an ultra anyway.
Gap may be not that big as I expect 600 to 700MHz for the 7600GT. Well, at 666MHz it would match the pixel shading power of the 7800GT.
G70 would eventually be phased out when G71 is here so there would only be 90nm GPUs?

 

At 500MHz 12pipes/5VS/8 ROPs this would be an awesome card to replace the 6600GT and i think nVidia is very well aware of the respect that card has in performance/price so a 7600GT has much to live up too.

I am with entropy that the reference clocks on the core should be conservative to allow for a quiet and cool running card. However as usual i expect most of the AIB to have their usual trimmed cards. But as many says maybe 500Mhz is to conservative, im in the line 550-600Mhz more..

 

http://www.pcdvd.com.tw/showthread.php?t=592031

 

http://translate.google.com/transla...&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=/language_tools

it's REALLY REALLY sketchy using that, and I haven't looked for another chinese -> english translation


but I think your about right, at least in terms of OC'ing the 6600 to become a 7600's performance...then again I have no idea...

 

The BIOS number is 5.73.22.15.01 .

 

They were "emulating" "rumoured" 7600 with 7800GTX via FP/VP disabling and frequency modifications.

I'd say that these "results" are absolutely pointless. Don't even look at them. Some real benchmarks of G73 should appear pretty soon.

 

How about these number

 

These may be true if these are not fake

 

grrrr
/me kicks dr in the back and runs away
Stop talking in DaveBauman's way !