No reason to spend any more, is it?

While skimming through nVidia's website I read about the new GeForce 7300 GS, and here's part of the official pitch:

Judging by this sales promotion the 7300 provide all the performance any home user and gamer can wish for!
So... why would anybody bother to spend a lot more money on the 7800-series?

If most gamers relied on the sales pitch the sales of high end cards should take a deep plunge...

Cheers
Olle

 

the 7300 ia slightly better then onboard graphics. they just simply lie as usuall

 

I urge you to also add subjective comments on wether it, in your opinion, "allows you to experience the latest gaming effects without compromising performance" or not. (As experienced through live gaming tests.)

Cheers
Olle

 

hehe. those "marketing" statements could very often be found on low-end cards like FX5200/ GF6200/ X300/ 9200SE and various other supposedly low-end during it's launch.

they can't just put you'll get minimal 3d performance with this card and most times you have to turn down the eye-candy just to play a game properly, can't they?

 

so when the review coming?..

 

And exactly how bad do I think it is?

To me most statements are either true or false.
For nVidias statements to be true, the least one can demand is that cards based on this GPU manage to run the game tests in 3DMark05 with an average frame rate exceeding 50fps. Given that the game tests in 3DMark06 are over the top compared to todays games, one can accept a lower framerate there, but should still get >30fps average in all game tests.
Then the GPU should perform equally well with Open GL, but that's something I rarely use myself.

In short: To fulfill the expectations raised by the sales pitch it needs to perform better than the (also new) GeForce 6800GS that cost about two and a half times more!
I expect it to fail in this aspect, and do worse than a "straight" GeForce 6800.

Cheers
Olle

 

this is the tecnical spec for 7300GS.. what do you think?.. 4 pixel pipeline and 128bit oops.. 64bit memory interface with DDR2 memory module.. how does it sound?..

 

The memory bandwidth calculation is wrong. It should be only 64/8*810=6.48GB/s.

 

dunno about that.. its what they say..

this is how it look.. image from leadtek..