The new GeForce 7800 GTX 512 shows that NVIDIA is back on the track of massively successful high-end gaming graphics cards that not only bring additional features, but leave competitors in the dust when it came to performance in 3D games.

NVIDIA has come a long way: from the inventor of the unsuccessful NV1 back in 1995 to the creator of the massively innovative and successful GeForce 256 in the 1999. Starting with the Riva TNT and till the GeForce Ti4600, the company was unrivalled on the market of high-end graphics cards, but then came ATI's RADEON 9700 PRO along with derivatives and defeated not only NVIDIA's GeForce 5800, but even the 5900-series. Last year NVIDIA managed to introduce the world's first Shader Model 3.0-capable graphics chip, which was outperformed by ATI's lineup of high-end chips in terms of performance. This year the company can finally demonstrate how much better its graphics chips are in terms of speed and the release of the new model just proves it.

?span>In just about every benchmark the only solution (not including its winning SLI configuration) that could beat the 7800 GTX 512 was the 7800 GTX SLI setup. ATI parts do become much more competitive when looking at 4xAA tests, but in the end the 7800 GTX 512 still comes out on top,?says a review by AnandTech web-site.

FiringSquad has decided to summarize the benefits the GeForce 7800 GTX has over rivals and predecessors: ?Call of Duty 2 performance improves by 21% at 1600x1200 with 4xAA/8xAF and 24% at 2048x1536, while we saw a whopping 31% improvement in Half-Life 2 at 2048x1536 with 4xAA/16xAF over the GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB. In benchmark after benchmark the GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB consistently finishes about 20-30% faster than the GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB, and sweeps all tests against its intended competition, the RADEON X1800 XT 512MB. Here the GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB typically comes out ahead by 8-12%, although there are exceptions such as IL-2 Sturmovik, where the margins are wider, and two cases in CoD 2 where the boards are separated by 5% and 6%. NVIDIA can now rest easily, with the GeForce 7800 GTX 512MB they've got the performance crown in OpenGL once again.

?NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 outperformed RADEON X1800 XT 512MB even in those tasks where its predecessor, GeForce 7800 GTX failed: I am talking about the games with numerous complex shaders and about the gaming modes with full-screen anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering,? review reads.

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