Geforce 7600 GT exposed, pictured

NVIDIA'S successor to its Geforce 6600 GT will be revealed tomorrow. It is called Geforce 7600 GT and it doesn't look much different to its older NV43-based brother. The new card is based on G73 design.

Standard cards are based on 560MHz core clock and 1400MHz memory. The memory is 128 bit despite thoughts that Nvidia could squeeze a 256-bit interface onto those new chips. It is a 90 nanometre chip sporting 177 million transistors. The chip has twelve pipelines and five vertex Shader units has eight ROP's and can deliver 22.4 GB/s bandwidth.

While we're on the numbers, it claims a texture fill rate of 6.72 billion per escond, pixel fill rate is 4.48 billions/second while the card can do 700 million vertices a second. Its peak power consumption is 67W. Nvidia claims that it did something to the hardware that made it 20 to 30 percent more efficient than the NV4x generation. It didn't say what.

We know that it can score over 3000 in 3Dmark06, and 37 frames at 1024x768 4X FSAA 8X aniso in FEAR. The rest of the scores will be revealed tomorrow.

Below is a picture of the reference card. Our colleagues at TweakPC have a picture of the retail XFX card, here.

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