First launched last June, NVIDIA’s GeForce 7800 GTX 256MB held the performance crown throughout most of 2005. By cranking up the number of pixel and vertex shaders to 24 and 8 respectively, as well as bumping up the clock speeds by 30MHz over GeForce 6800 Ultra, the GeForce 7800 GTX delivered up to two times the performance of previous graphics architectures, but the changes were more than just skin deep..



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