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    what are the Differences between the Go 7800 vs Go 7800GTX?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by techaholic, Apr 11, 2006.

  1. techaholic

    techaholic Notebook Geek

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    Does anyone know what the differences are between this two cards, and can the GO 7800 be OCed?

    Thanks
     
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    USAFdude02 NBR Reviewer & Deity NBR Reviewer

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    The 7800GTX will blow out the 7800Go...clock speeds are different and I believe the GTX has more pipelines.

    The 7800Go can be overclocked, but will still not perform as well as the GTX granted it is still a great card. :)
     
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  3. Charles P. Jefferies

    Charles P. Jefferies Lead Moderator Super Moderator

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    There are specs for them both at the bottom of this page:
    http://www.nvidia.com/page/go_7800gtx.html

    The number of pixel pipelines is also different. I belive the Go7800 has 16, while the Go7800GTX has 24.

    But, the Go7800GTX performs signifigantly better than the Go7800, and as USAFdude said, even overclocked, the Go7800 doesn't come close to the Go7800GTX.
     
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  4. techaholic

    techaholic Notebook Geek

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    Thanks Guys :) , looks like a good OC would gain a lot of lost ground, at least to the point where the Go 7800 will play games reasonably well. I do a lot of Virtual PC and the Dual Core will really shine when running several VPC sessions.

    GeForce Go 7800 GTX
    Graphics Bus Technology PCI Express
    Memory Interface 256-bit
    Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 35.2
    Fill Rate (Billion pixels/sec) 9.6
    Vertices/Second (Millions) 800
    Memory Data Rate (GHz) 1.1
    RAMDACs (MHz) 400

    GeForce Go 7800
    Graphics Bus Technology PCI Express
    Memory Interface 256-bit
    Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 35.2
    Fill Rate (Billion pixels/sec) 6.4
    Vertices/Second (Millions) 600
    Memory Data Rate (GHz) 1.1
    RAMDACs (MHz) 400
     
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    CaliDell Notebook Geek

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    Tech,

    the 7800 does better than "resonably" well. While not as potent as the 7800GTX, it still pulls 120+ FPS in HL:2 at 1440x900 with all settings maxed, AAx2, AFx4.

    I'm also a bigtime BF2 gamer, and I get 90+ FPS with all settings maxed....50-70FPS with AAx2. It also plays the newer, more graphics intensive games like F.E.A.R. with no problems.

    Also, if you own a Dell, they give the GPUs a fairly gratuitous (sp?) underclock...coolbits can be used to help alleviate that problem as well.....I've pulled almost 6000 in 3DMark05 with the Go 7800.
     
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  6. techaholic

    techaholic Notebook Geek

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    :D Precisely what i wanted to hear, now I know I made the right decision, when i cancelled the M170 for the E1705 (go 7800) ;)
     
    techaholic, Apr 11, 2006
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