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 Review: Sparkle Calibre P790+ 512 MB SLI

 By: Hilbert Hagedoorn | Edited by  | Published: August 28, 2006  

   

Sparkle P790+ 512 MB a.k.a G71

Back in March when the GeForce 7900 GT was released I called this series the winner of the three new product that were released that day. It's a top-segment mid-range product yet offering performance close to the high-end graphics cards for an amazing price. The GeForce 7900 GT is pretty much a slowed down version of big daddy GeForce 7900 GTX. This product has the very same pixel pipelines and vertex processors as the GTX, in fact it's 100% the same (G71) chip yet it's clocked significantly slower at 450 MHz (reference).

The standard 7900GT is armed with gDDR3 memory running at 1320 MHz (2x 660 MHz as reference) and also was brought  down from 512MB towards 256 MB. Now if you look at the chart on this page and start comparing a little then you'll notice that it should perform better than the GeForce 7800 GT and perhaps even the 7800 GTX 256MB versions ... for roughly 300 bucks !

The card is producing much less heat due to the lower clocks and a nice side-effect of that is that it's a single slot solution whereas the GTX has the bigger dual slot heat pipe cooler.

Sparkle offers the Calibre series of cards. It features a new and very silent cooler, nice blue colored PCB, faster clocks for core and memory and to top it off, that 512 MB of memory. It has all the functions and specifications as mentioned, yet since this is the SPP790+ model again we have slightly higher than usual core and memory speeds. The graphics core is clocked at an impressive 560 MHz (vs. 450MHz standard) and that gDDR3 memory is running at 1400MHz (vs. 1320MHz).

So that's a really aggressive default overclock, very impressive. The videocard also comes with a new cooler. Lately I have been complaining about the reference coolers from NVIDIA as I think they produce too much sound. This cooler is virtually silent and very effective. We'll show it on the photo-shoot.

Also good to know, Calibre products come with a 48 hours response technical support and 3 years warranty.

Review: Sparkle Geforce 7900 GT - P790+ 512MB memory

Included in the box you'll find next to the Calibre GeForce 7900 GT 512MB graphics card the following items:

  • Quick install guide
  • Manual
  • DVI-I to VGA dongle
  • HDTV dongle
  • Dual 4-pin to single 6-pin power cable
  • Driver CD, which includes NVIDIA® ForceWare unified graphics drivers, Full installation manual .pdf
  • Painkiller: Full version
  • CyberLink PowerDVD: Excellent DVD playback utility
  • CyberLink PowerProducer: Easy-to-use video editing utility

NVIDIA GeForce 6 & 7 Product Lineup Specifications

Product Name

# pixel processors

# vertex processors

Bus width

Memory Type/Amount

GPU Speed

RAM Speed

GeForce 7950 GX2 24(x2) 8x2 256-bit GDDR3/512MB (x2) 500MHz 1200 MHz
GeForce 7900 GTX 24 8 256-bit GDDR3/512MB 650MHz 1600 MHz
Sparkle P790+ 24 8 256-bit GDDR3/512MB 560MHz 1400 MHz
GeForce 7900 GT 24 8 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 450MHz 1320 MHz
GeForce 7800 GTX 24 8 256-bit GDDR3/512MB 560MHz 1600 MHz
GeForce 7800 GTX 24 8 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 430MHz 1200MHz
GeForce 7800 GT 20 7 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 400MHz 1000MHz
GeForce 7800 GS 16 6 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 375MHz 1200MHz
GeForce 7600 GT 12 5 128-bit GDDR3/256MB 560MHz 1400MHz
GeForce 7600 GS 12 5 128-bit GDDR2/256MB 500MHz 1400MHz
GeForce 7600 GS 12 5 128-bit GDDR2/256MB400MHz 800MHz

GeForce 6800 Ultra

16

6

256-bit

GDDR3/256MB

400MHz

1100MHz

GeForce 6800 GT

16

6

256-bit

GDDR3/256MB

350MHz

1000MHz

GeForce 6800 GS PCX 12 5 256-bit GDDR3/128/256MB 425MHz 1000MHz
GeForce 6800 GS AGP 12 5 256-bit GDDR3/128/256MB 350MHz 1000MHz

GeForce 6800

12

5

256-bit

GDDR/128MB

325MHz

700MHz

GeForce 6800 LE

8

4

256-bit

GDDR/128MB

320MHz

700MHz

GeForce 6600 GT 8 3 128-bit GDDR3/128/256MB 500MHz 1000MHz
GeForce 6600 8 3 128-bit GDDR/128MB 300MHz 275(550)
GeForce 6200 4 3 64/128-bit GDDR/128MB/256MB 300MHz 275(550)
 




 

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