Monday, October 02, 2006
Crank up the power with NVIDIA® GeForce® 7950 graphics processing units (GPUs).

GeForce 7950 GX2
Equipped with high-speed DDR3, users can fully exploit innovative graphics technologies such as NVIDIA® CineFX™ 4.0 engine, nView™, UltraShadow™ II technologies from NVIDIA™, it is also HDCP ready to support future HDCP protected audio/video contents, provide worry-free upgrade to the coming high-definition contents and many other premium graphics features.

The GX2 is armed with one Gigabyte of gDDR3 memory, more precisely 2x512MB and I say this specifically as "2x" memory is cloned (split in two) in SLI mode and thus effectively is 512Mb of memory per GPU. This memory is running at a 600 MHz memory clock frequency so its DDR will effectively serve you a 1200 MHz memory frequency, which again is a lot (400 MHz) slower than big poppa GTX 512MB. The outcome is a framebuffer bandwidth of 38.4 GB per second per GPU.
For a better comparison with previous products :

NVIDIA GeForce 6 & 7 Product Lineup Specifications

Product Name

# pixel processors

# vertex processors

Bus width

Memory Type/Amount

GPU Speed

RAM Speed

XFX 7900 GT2 XXX24(x2)8x2 256-bit GDDR3/512MB (x2) 570MHz 1550 MHz
GeForce 7900 GT2 24(x2) 8x2 256-bit GDDR3/512MB (x2) 500MHz 1200 MHz
GeForce 7900 GTX 24 8 256-bit GDDR3/512MB 650MHz 1600 MHz
GeForce 7900 GT 24 8 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 450MHz 1320 MHz
GeForce 7800 GTX 24 8 256-bit GDDR3/512MB 560MHz 1600 MHz
GeForce 7800 GTX 24 8 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 430MHz 1200MHz
GeForce 7800 GT 20 7 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 400MHz 1000MHz
GeForce 7800 GS 16 6 256-bit GDDR3/256MB 375MHz 1200MHz
GeForce 7600 GT 12 5 128-bit GDDR3/256MB 560MHz 1400MHz
GeForce 7600 GS 12 5 128-bit GDDR2/256MB 500MHz 1400MHz
GeForce 7600 GS 12 5 128-bit GDDR2/256MB400MHz 800MHz

GeForce 6800 Ultra

16

6

256-bit

GDDR3/256MB

400MHz

1100MHz

GeForce 6800 GT

16

6

256-bit

GDDR3/256MB

350MHz

1000MHz

GeForce 6800 GS PCX 12 5 256-bit GDDR3/128/256MB 425MHz 1000MHz
GeForce 6800 GS AGP 12 5 256-bit GDDR3/128/256MB 350MHz 1000MHz

GeForce 6800

12

5

256-bit

GDDR/128MB

325MHz

700MHz

GeForce 6800 LE

8

4

256-bit

GDDR/128MB

320MHz

700MHz

GeForce 6600 GT 8 3 128-bit GDDR3/128/256MB 500MHz 1000MHz
GeForce 6600 8 3 128-bit GDDR/128MB 300MHz 275(550)
GeForce 6200 4 3 64/128-bit GDDR/128MB/256MB 300MHz 275(550)