NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512: More Than Just More Memory
by Derek Wilson on November 14, 2005 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
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F.E.A.R. Performance
F.E.A.R. is a hugely taxing game that looks great but performs horribly at the highest settings on most hardware. At its release, there was quite a bit of debate over whether or not the graphics were good enough to justify the poor performance. Obviously we all want beautiful games that perform well at the same time, but since we don't always get what we want, we'd rather see developers err on the side of making things look good and giving us the option to turn off settings if we so choose.
Without 4xAA (and without soft shadows), the 7800 GTX 512 dominates the single card arena. SLI lends a major boost to the game, but ~60fps at 2048x1536 is just not worth $1400 in our opinion.
F.E.A.R. is a hugely taxing game that looks great but performs horribly at the highest settings on most hardware. At its release, there was quite a bit of debate over whether or not the graphics were good enough to justify the poor performance. Obviously we all want beautiful games that perform well at the same time, but since we don't always get what we want, we'd rather see developers err on the side of making things look good and giving us the option to turn off settings if we so choose.
Without 4xAA (and without soft shadows), the 7800 GTX 512 dominates the single card arena. SLI lends a major boost to the game, but ~60fps at 2048x1536 is just not worth $1400 in our opinion.
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ElFenix - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link
i've been asking them to hire an editor for a few years now, but i'm pretty sure they haven't taken my advice yet. every once in a while they post an article that is just unreadable due to the run on and compound sentences.yacoub - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link
It's worse when you have a journalism degree. It drives you up a wall to read so many grammatical and spelling errors. Even so I'd rather they put the money into doing more 'real world' style tests instead of just these Top of the Charts/ GPU with the Biggest Dick contests.phusg - Thursday, November 17, 2005 - link
It could be worse, at least they updated the article to change this comical spelling mistake. Puts them in line with the rest of the computer industry where the testing phase of the development cycle is outsourced to the consumer ;-)Methusela - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link
This thing just destroys every other single card, and every other SLI configuration in almost every test! Yikes. I guess it had better do so at $700 apiece, though.Maybe this will push the price of the 7800GT and GTX models down in a couple of weeks? Cost-conscious buyers like myself can only hope so.
route66 - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link
Sick!Googer - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link
Holy Handgranades 54.4 GB/s Memory Bandwith!pol II - Monday, November 14, 2005 - link
Nice card