Nvidia quitely releases Geforce 7100 series.

zekrahminator · Sep 1, 2006

NVIDIA quietly releases Geforce 7100 series.

NVIDIA has quietly released the current lowest member of the Geforce 7 series- the 7100 series. The 7100GS is designed for a budget-minded consumer. The card is very similar to the 7300LE. Both cards have four pixel shaders, and have 64-bit DDR2 memory clocked at 600MHz. However, while the 7300LE ships with a core clock of 450MHZ, the 7100GS has a core clock of 350MHz, leaving a total pixel fill rate of 1,400 million pixels per second. The chip can process 263 vertices per second. The 7100GS ships with one DVI and one D-Sub connector, and is SLI compatible. PixelView is currently manufactering the 7100GS with 128MB of memory, but TurboCache technology can allow for 512MB video memory. Sparkle and Inno3D also announced launching similar products.

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newtekie1 · Sep 1, 2006

Well that is it, I am dumping my 7900GT and getting two of these bad boys to put in SLI. :laugh:

But seriously, if this is priced right it might be nice for home built serves and things like that, that don't need a lot of graphical power. Heck the 7300LE is already down in the $45 range, if this is say in the $35 range I might pick one up just to have a spare PCI-E card laying around.

Jimmy 2004 · Sep 1, 2006

How does the performance of this compare to something like an ATI 9600?

Azn Tr14dZ · Sep 1, 2006

You know, the 7300GTs aren't that bad, and in SLI they get 6000+.

zekrahminator · Sep 1, 2006

Jimmy 2004 said:
How does the performance of this compare to something like an ATI 9600?

Probably about equal. Think of it this way...My 9800SE stock (378/290) had a pixel fill rate of 1,500 million pixels per second. A review of my 9800SE said that it was a budget model compared to the kings of the time (9600 and 9700). So basically, keep your 9600

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jocksteeluk · Sep 2, 2006

I long for days passed where there were just 3 cards made per chip series (eg geforce 4 - 4200, 4400, 4600)

Jimmy 2004 · Sep 2, 2006

zekrahminator said:
Probably about equal. Think of it this way...My 9800SE stock (378/290) had a pixel fill rate of 1,500 million pixels per second. A review of my 9800SE said that it was a budget model compared to the kings of the time (9600 and 9700). So basically, keep your 9600 .

Thanks, I was just wondering for my family PC that has my old AGP 9600, so I'd need to move to PCI-E to get one of these anyway...

killatia · Sep 2, 2006

why did they bother releasing a geforce 7100 when a 7300 covers the low-end just fine? if you ask me the 7100 was better off as an intergrated graphic solution.

newtekie1 · Sep 2, 2006

Because they need some way to get rid of those cores that didn't pass quality control testing to make it into a 7300LE. Instead of throwing them out they put them on this and sell it at an even lower price. Some people will buy it, like I said there are some situations where you don't really care about performance, you just want the cheapest possible video card you can get.

Mussels · Sep 3, 2006

why cant they at least make them a smaller card? 4x PCI-E or something? Theres no need to have these giant cards, when they're small enough to make it onto a mobo as integrated graphics...

newtekie1 · Sep 3, 2006

Yeah, I don't know why they don't just make them PCI-E x1 or 4. Maybe they need to use all 16 lanes to make them SLI compatible since they don't use the external bridge. Though I really think they could have drops SLI support for these, I don't see a lot of people rushing out to the stores to buy two of these to put in SLI.

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