News Iconic Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX hits 20 years old today — PS3 GPU forbearer was 'graphics champion' of performance and efficiency in its day

[Admin]

The Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX launched 20 years ago, today, and it marked a ground-breaking achievement at the time for the green team.

Iconic Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX hits 20 years old today — PS3 GPU forbearer was 'graphics champion' of performance and efficiency in its day : Read more

 

[LolaGT]

You missed by one gen. It was never the 7800s that were iconic, it was the 8800 cards. Also: Most people that owned a PS3 had no idea, nor any care what was inside of it, they just knew it was pretty awesome. Back then there was still a gigantic demographic and cultural divide between PC guys and console guys, they were alien to each other.

 

[gamerk316]

The whole 7000 series was forgotten because soon after the godly 8800 GTX came out and obsoleted everything that came before. But speaking as someone who's PC at the time featured a 5500 GTX: It was nice being able to play Far Cry and Doom 3 at high settings (the latter crushed literally everything shy of a 6800 GTX, and was Crysis before that was a thing).

 

[ravewulf]

The GeForce 6 series may have been the last to receive official Windows 98 drivers, but GeForce 7 support can be added to that final driver by editing the inf file, making them the fastest GPUs that can be used with Windows 98.

 

[lemongrassgarlic]

I had the laptop version of them practically the same as 7800's : 7900 GS & 7950 GS , known for their NMI fault blue screens. nVidia didn't want to say it was their fault , so Dell kept changing mother boards , with no solution until finally they changed the nV cards. Also these cards were bad , I had to bake them 3 times to get them running again. These were NOT nVidia's finest.