Right now does the 7800GTX beat the 7900GS in benchmarks? I'm curious to know, since 7800GTX was the old "High-End". I wonder why they discontinued it D:
Because it's a G70 core and the G71 came out, it's a bit like why did ATi bring out a new core for the 1950Pro and discontinued the older generation 1800XT when the 1800 is just as fast, kinda pointless really, apart from Crossfire2 there is little benefit, some would say because the 1950Pro has more shaders so faster and better IQ in shader intensive games such as Oblivion....but the fact is, the 1800XT overclocked is faster in Oblivion than a 1950Pro overclocked.
The 1950Pro however is officially I beleive ATi's replacement for the 1900GT, but again overclocked the 1900GT is as fast as the 1950pro and you can now pick them up cheaper.......wtf????
Ohhhh and more importantly, the 7800GTX was not replaced by the 7900GS, the GTX was high end G70, the GS is mid range G71 so therfore the 7800GTX was replaced by the 7900GTX and yes....that is considerably faster than the 7800GTX.....unlike ATi's efforts.
Even when the 1900XT replaced the 1800XT (after only about 3 or 4 months in reality because it took ATI so long to manufacture sufficient supplies to get them on the retailers shelves) it was not that significantly faster.
There we go, a bit of NVidia "fanboy" stuff for a change.....but hey, I prefer ATI!!!!