NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS Group Test

Bit-tech takes a look at six different GeForce 7900 GS cards - BFG Tech, EVGA, Galaxy, Inno3D, Point Of View, XFX - and compares real-world performance and features with ATI’s Radeon X1900GT and X1800GTO. Which is the ultimate mid-range card?

GeForce 7900 GS is a breath of fresh air in the middle of NVIDIA’s product lineup. Price and performance are very respectable and there appears to be an awful lot of headroom when it comes to overclocking. The pre-overclocked cards are either a match for ATI’s Radeon X1900GT or they are faster, depending on how aggressive each board partner is with its shipping clock speeds. Providing both Galaxy and BFG Tech can supply the cards clocked with a 540MHz core in reasonable quantity, they’re a good match for the Radeon X1900GT at a very similar price.

Out of the six cards we have here, only EVGA has stepped up to the table and implemented HDCP on the model we have here. However, EVGA also sells another four GeForce 7900 GS products of which only one has HDCP support. The other three products in the lineup just seem redundant, especially when the crypto-ROM appears to add a mere $5-10 to the MSRP (depending on the clocks) on EVGA’s home page.

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