NVIDIA 7950GT, 7900GS, 7600GT, 7600GS Reach EOL

[DeathReborn]

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4722

NVIDIA 7950GT, 7900GS, 7600GT and 7600GS will reach EOL soon to make way for GeForce 8600 (G84) series. The last shipment is on 28th of April and we can expect to see fewer GeForce 7 series on the market from mid Q2 onwards.

Looks like nVidia is putting most of their DX9 hardware out to pasture.

 

[secretanchitman]

i guess it means that the 8600 will actually be much better than even the high end 7 series? nice.

 

[Matt2]

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
i guess it means that the 8600 will actually be much better than even the high end 7 series? nice.

I wouldnt count on it.

Isnt the 8600 sporting a 128bit bus?

 

[DeathReborn]

Not only that but the 7900GTX & 7950GX2 are still going to be around for a while longer which probably puts 8600 performance around the 7900GT/7950GT area.

 

[Gstanfor]

That is still extremely good performance for a midrange product IMO.

 

[Tab]

So, wouldn't that mean the 8600 doesn't come out until late april? Goddamnit.

 

[schneiderguy]

Originally posted by: Matt2

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
i guess it means that the 8600 will actually be much better than even the high end 7 series? nice.

I wouldnt count on it.

Isnt the 8600 sporting a 128bit bus?

both the 7600gt and 6600gt have a 128bit memory bus and they outperform the high end card of the generation before them (6800ultra for the 7600, fx 5950 for the 6600), both of which have 256bit memory busses. :Q

 

[A554SS1N]

Originally posted by: schneiderguy

Originally posted by: Matt2

Originally posted by: secretanchitman
i guess it means that the 8600 will actually be much better than even the high end 7 series? nice.

I wouldnt count on it.

Isnt the 8600 sporting a 128bit bus?

both the 7600gt and 6600gt have a 128bit memory bus and they outperform the high end card of the generation before them (6800ultra for the 7600, fx 5950 for the 6600), both of which have 256bit memory busses. :Q

Yeah, memory bus width isn't everything, having a much more powerful core that can handle the shaders in modern games is more important, plus clock frequencies for memory tend to be more useful than the bus width. It's only at the higher resolutions and with AA that 128-bit falls apart.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: DeathReborn
Not only that but the 7900GTX & 7950GX2 are still going to be around for a while longer which probably puts 8600 performance around the 7900GT/7950GT area.

I thought that these were already EOL... There would be no go reason to continue to produce either of those cards once the 8800GTX/GS were introduced. That's why they aren't on the list in this thread.

 

[DeathReborn]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: DeathReborn
Not only that but the 7900GTX & 7950GX2 are still going to be around for a while longer which probably puts 8600 performance around the 7900GT/7950GT area.

I thought that these were already EOL... There would be no go reason to continue to produce either of those cards once the 8800GTX/GS were introduced. That's why they aren't on the list in this thread.

I can't find any news articles/press releases saying that the 7900GTX or 7950GX2 are already EOL. Either it's been buried under a lot of bad news, was EOL'd quietly or they are still being produced.