GeForce 7900GTX cheap high end card

GeForce 7900 GTX seems to be a real u-turn with NVIDIA’s video cards that will start ot focus more and more with SLI and multi-GPU configurations. When it launched GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB at about $650 many feared a new generation of extremely expensive video cards and even if it may still come true GeForce 7900 GTX is not a part of the trend. NVIDIA will namely lower the prices of its high end cards with a single circuit. 7900GTX is expected to be about $449, which has to be considered a real catch considering what 7800GTX 512MB cost when it arrived. This might in turn explain the relatively small differences between 7900GTX and 7800GTX 512MB and will give NVIDIA’s new circuit an advantage from a price/performance point of view.

Even if NVIDIA seems to want to make its cards available to more consumers it has not decided to leave the segment of extreme high end cards where price is irrelative. NVIDIA will namely be focusing on SLI cards that uses two 7900 circuits on the same card. These will be NVIDIA’s flagships on the single card market and can be used to create a Quad SLI system with really extreme performance. A quite logical move considering NVIDIA’s development and we’ve already seen multi GPU cards from ASUS and Gigabyte. We’re right now wondering how ATI is planning to counter this. We know that it has the capacity to connect 32 (and more) circuits in 3D simulators and similar, so don’t be surprised if you will see multi-GPU cards from ATI in the future.

Source: X-bit Labs