 ECS - most likely known to geeks and gamers as a motherboard manufacturer, are now shooting for the graphics card market, with two new cards, targetting the high and mid range of the graphics market.
The two models of PCI-Express cards are the NVidia GeForce 8800GTX and the 8800GTS.
The N8800GTX-768MX is a high end card, DirectX 10 compatible, with 768MB of GDDR3 memory, a 384-bit memory bus, and a core operating at 575MHz.
The GTX version of the card has 128 shader processors, with the GTS being slightly trimmed down at 96. If you really want all the stats - the N880GTX-768MX has a theoretical texture fill rate of 38.4 billion texels per second.
Both cards are SLI ready, supporting 16x FSAA and also HDR technology. They are Vista compatible with DirectX 10 and shader model 4.0. Considering the games coming in the near future, such as Supreme Commander, and Alan Wake, a good DirectX 10 supporting card will be a must to get the most out of gaming.
Both the cards support NVidia’s newest graphics utilities and features, including GigaThread technology which maximizes GPU utilization to achieve greater efficiency when processing next-generation shader programmes. The NVidia Lumenex engine drives the 16x anti-aliasing, 128-bit floating point HDR, fast frame rates and the highest resolutions currently supported on the market, and NVIDIA Quantum Effects technology to simulate and render physics effects directly on the GPU, allowing the CPU to maximize processing power - giving all the latest physics effects without the need to purchase a physics card.
We haven't been able to obtain the cards for benchmarking yet, but theoretically, the wider bandwidth of both cards (384-bit and 320-bit) is higher than the 256-bit maximum currently offered on the market. When directly compared with the 7950GX2 GPU-based solution, the N8800GTX offers 30% better overall performance and up to a 50% increase in performance when two cards are used in a SLI configuration.
We'll keep you posted on this range of cards as more information becomes available.
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