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Published on May 31th, 2006
Introduction
Not everyone can afford a high end graphics card, since most gamers are
young fellows who can't spend hundreds of dollars on a
top-of-the-line model. Unfortunately, there are not many options to
choose from when considering a low budget card. On top of that, the
majority of these cards will not allow you to play games with
medium-high resolutions, Anisotropic Filtering, and Anti-Aliasing
enabled. NVIDIA already released the GeForce 7300 GS, but it has
suffered from rough competition going up against ATi's low budget
offerings. The Radeon X1300 Pro really gave it a run for its money,
with it suffering from lack of performance in comparison.
Now it seems that NVIDIA is trying to correct this situation. Back on
the 15th of May, NVIDIA shipped 7300GT GPUs to the Asian Pacific region
only. However, this time they managed to surprise us. The 7300GT is not
based on G72 architecture like its brother, the 7300GS. The 7300GT is
based on G73, like the 7600 series, but with eight pipelines. A Few
weeks later, many manufacturers launched their products and showed some
amazing reference benchmarks of the 7300GT. These made us sit up and
take notice. Like other G73/G72/G71 members, it is based on the 90
nanometer process. The original 7300GT design also included DDR2
memory, with the core clocked at 350MHz. However, a few manufacturers
replaced it with GDDR3 memory, boosting the core clock speed as well.
Inno3D was kind enough to provide us with a sample of their superior
version of the 7300GT. Inno3D has been NVIDIA's partner for many years,
and are well known for their reasonable prices. They have few versions
of the 7300GT, one with DDR2 and the other with GDDR3, with both
versions running a 128 bit memory interface. We were fortunate enough
to get the GDDR3 version. They have increased the core clock-speed to
500MHz (from 400MHz), with the memory running at 700MHz (1400MHz
effective) in this version. Today we have the privilege of reviewing
their GeForce 7300GT GDDR3 256MB edition.
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