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I've been looking at a new video card lately (X-Plane...) And am certain that many people are confused by Nvidia's product lines of late... Here's a nutshell idea.... They're currently using 4 digit …
I've been looking at a new video card lately (X-Plane...) And am certain that many people are confused by Nvidia's product lines of late... Here's a nutshell idea.... They're currently using 4 digit product numbers - like 7300, 7800, 8300, etc.... I found this breakdown in zdnets talkback...
how the breakdown works out (just an example as same applies to ati): home or business card: nvidia 7100 / 7300 - display to screen only home gaming or business designing: nvidia 7600 - play dvds and light games at low resolution (diablo2 / couterstrike) gamers: nvidia 7800 / 7900 / 7950 (single) - play dvds and medium games at medium to full resolution (nfsu2 / bf vietnam) gamers with money: nvidia 7800 / 7900 / 7950 / 8800 (sli) - play dvds and heavy games at full resolution true gamers (cost is irrelivant) nvidia 7950 / 8800 (sli / quad sli) plus physx card - do it all without breaking a sweatIt might exaggerate things a bit, but the 7900 video cards would have more horsepower than the 7300 cards /etc.... Here's another good breakdown on the model number maze.