NVIDIA Geforce 7600 appears

[Darksaber]

Tweakers.net has some nice pictures of two Geforce 7600s. One of which was completely passively cooled. First off, the pictures:

Well the 7600GT will have 12 pipelines and have 5 Vertex shaders while running at 500Mhz for the GPU and 1GHz for the memory using a 128bit interface, making it a 6600GT with 4 extra pipelines and 2 extra vertex shaders. The 7600GS will have only 8 pipelines, and 3 vertex shaders, and run at the same speeds as the GT. So it will have the exact same specs as a 6600GT, besides being built using 90nm technology. Altough the 7600GS seems to be a die shrunk carbon copy of the 6600GT on paper, it will end up around 10-15% faster.

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[giorgos th.]

i still cannot understand why they produce these cards...
why buy it when you can have a shlightly o/ced 6600GT with same preformance.the 6800LE also,6800,6800GS prices are dropping...
why??

 

[wazzledoozle]

7600GT should have been a 16 pipe part-
6800GS 12<7600GT 16<7800GT<20<7800GTX 24
It makes more sense like that.

 

[bruins004]

Hmmm confusing lol.
I kinda see what they are doing.
They are only trying to beat out the equivalent 6 series cards.
Like the 7300 > 6200, 7600>6600, 7800>7800.
I guess its their move to phase out the 6 series.
Which just brings up the obvious question. If they wanna phase out the 6 series why the hell did they make the 6800GS?
But I agree that the 7600 should be a 16pp instead of a 12pp. But then again they just might price it right and make it hard for low-mid end users not to buy.

 

[giorgos th.]

another thing i can imagine is a turn to 90nm process and these cards are acting like "tests" before nv50 hits the market...

 

[sol.fides]

Business and translation

They are doing it for market share. price to performance. Position products to cater to each customer segment and beat the competition. The 7600 series will carry them into the next year for the mid and lower high-end segment.
Added features. Not many more but enough to compete, like with HDTV & video quality. ATI did well this round in their video quality.
Production cost decrease.

And heres the translated page link dutch to english

http://babel.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=nl_en&url=http://tweakers.net/nieuws/41117

 

[W1zzard]

die shrink = cheaper
less pipelines than the high-end cards = get rid of bad chip inventory
7 in name = many people think card is fast, close to 7800gtx

 

[bruins004]

That is true wizzard. It is nice for Nvidia that people will think that way. But the 7900 will def. be the fastest in the 7 series. When do u think there will be a leak about that?

 

[Ser-J]

Does anyone know anything about new 7900s???