GeForce 7600 GS

Written by - on 05 November 2009. Posted in GeForce 7 Series

The NVIDIA video processor named G73 was intended to replace the veteran of the middle segment - the NV43 chip, on the basis of which a whole line of video cards of the GeForce 6600 series was manufactured. In the case of the G73, the situation is similar. The senior video card in the line was named 7600GT.

In addition to another suffix, 7600GS video cards should have had other, more significant differences from 7600GT. Of course, since the 7600GS is "younger", the characteristics of this video card were somewhat cut down compared to the 7600GT. Fortunately, NVIDIA did not cut the functionality of the video chip itself, and the same G73 chip is installed on 7600GS cards as on 7600GT video cards. That is - the video processor had all the same 12 pixel and 5 vertex pipelines, supported all newfangled technologies, such as Ultra Shadow II and operation in SLI mode. The "weakening" of the video processor affected the clock frequency. On 7600GS video cards, the GPU ran at 400 MHz (560 MHz for 7600GT). Another significant difference is the recommended memory type for the 7600GS - DDR2.

Thus, it turns out that in terms of frequencies a typical video card 7600GS was inferior to its older sister 7600GT by 28.5% in GPU frequency and almost 43% in memory frequency. Interestingly, in terms of frequencies, the 7600GS was inferior even to the old 6600GT, but do not forget that the new 7600GS had a large number of pipelines and an improved architecture.

Specifications NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GS

Name	GeForce 7600GS
Core	G73
Process technology (µm)	0.09
Transistors (million)	178
Core frequency	400
Memory frequency (DDR)	400 (800)
Bus and memory type	GDDR2 128 Bit
Bandwidth (Gb/s)	12.8
Pixel pipelines	12
TMU per conveyor	1
textures per clock	12
textures per pass	12
Vertex conveyors	5
Pixel Shaders	3.0
Vertex Shaders	3.0
Fill Rate (Mpix/s)	3200
Fill Rate (Mtex/s)	4800
DirectX	9.0c
Anti-Aliasing (Max)	SS&MS - 8x
Anisotropic Filtering (Max)	16x
Memory	256/512
Interface	PCI-E/AGP
RAMDAC	2x400

The 7600GS video cards showed excellent performance for their class, responded well to overclocking, and the variety of versions from different vendors always made it possible to choose a variant suitable for any gamer.