3Digest: February 2007
NVIDIA GeForce 7600GS 256MB GDDR3 (450/1100 MHz)

This GPU is presented by Colorful GeForce 7600GS 256MB GDDR3 (450/1100 MHz) PCI-Express.

Features:

• NVIDIA GeForce 7600GS GPU, 450 MHz clock rate;
• Pixel pipelines: 12
• Vertex pipelines: 5
• Texture processors: 12
• ROPs: 8
• 256MB GDDR3 in BGA chips; 550 (1100) MHz clock rate.
• 128-bit bus;

By the end of the month the product costs about $120-140, supports DirectX 9.0c (SM3.0).

This novelty, which we tested for the first time early in April 2006, is meant for the middle-end ($120-150).

The card is rather successful and easily outperforms higher-end rivals of the previous generation in terms of performance and features.

You can read more on GeForce 7 Series in our reviews: Theoretical and analytical graphics card reviews containing functional analysis of NVIDIA GPUs

On February 15, 2006 the latest drivers from NVIDIA were 97.92 WHQL release (for 8800 series), 93.81 beta (for other series) for Windows XP.