| | Articles | | Inno3D GeForce 7600GS AGP Review |
Published on September 27th, 2006
Introduction
Today we have a special graphics card in our labs. Believe us or not,
but it's an AGP card and it's intended for all of those who
still have a motherboard with an AGP port. Yes, I'm talking about
the GeForce 7600GS AGP - Nvidia's latest response to ATI's
RADEON X1600PRO AGP. This is the second card of the GeForce 7 family
that is intended for the AGP market. The first card is the GeForce
7800GS, which was revealed and previewed exclusively here several
months ago.
Nvidia already surprised us some time ago by releasing the GeForce
7800GS to the AGP market. Then ATI decided to make an AGP version of
the RADEON X1600PRO. Nvidia had to respond, and they did so with the
GeForce 7600GS. This GPU has 12 pixel pipelines, 5 vertex shaders and
DDR2 memory. As you may have guessed already, this is based on the G73
core, 90nm. The card was sent to us from InnoVISION. The Inno3D GeForce
7600GS AGP has the following clocks: 400MHz for the Core and 800MHz
(400x2) for the DDR2 memory.
Unlike the GeForce 7800GS, the GeForce 7600GS's price is very
reasonable and it's a medium range card. That means you can use
this baby to play the latest games, with anisotropic filtering and
Anti-Aliasing at medium resolutions (1024x768 and 1280x1024) with
playable frame rates. However, the 7600GS is not aimed for the
extremely high resolutions such as 1600x1200 and above. But, in some
cases, you will be able to play it in these high resolutions but
without Anisotropic Filtering and Anti-Aliasing.
The card we are testing today is the Inno3D GeForce 7600GS. Inno3D is a
brand name of InnoVISION Multimedia - a reputable manufacturer based in
Hong Kong. The AGP market is pretty big as not everyone is upgrading
their computer every few months and that's why the AGP market is
still huge. So, today we will check out the GeForce 7600GS AGP and
compare it against the ATI RADEON X1600PRO AGP.
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