A Closer Look

The card needs additional power delivery through one PCI-E power connector, an adapter cable is included.


You can combine this card with the 7900 GTX, or another Burstfire 7900 GTO to build an SLI rig. SLI with the 7900 GTO will work too of course, but due to the different clocks there might be a small loss of performance.


After removing the cooler, we see that a Copper baseplate makes contact with the hot core. Once the heat is distributed far enough, Aluminum is used to keep the weight down. You can also see here, that the memory chips are making contact with the heatsink.


The memory layout and everything is just like on the big GeForce 7900 GTX.


The NVIDIA G71 uses 278 Million transistors with support for Shader Model 3.0.


As memory Samsung 1.1 ns GDDR3 memory with the model number K4J52324QC-BJ11 is used.