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Zebronics 7900 GS
By: Jayesh Mansukhani   |   Jan 03,2007
  • 3.5
Supports all known G70 features
Well Designed HSF
Competitive Pricing
Windows Vista Premium Ready
The year 2006, saw a lot of product releases in the field of graphics with multiple combinations of clockspeed, memory speeds and bandwidth. One of the more outstanding graphic releases was the Nvidia 7900 GS, which retained the strength of the 7900 family of cards and yet delivered excellent performance. Targeted at the mainstream market, the 7900 GS hit the sweet spot between performance and cost.

The product we are reviewing today is the Zebronics 7900 GS. Zebronics is a leading Indian reseller, which often rebadges products from other manufacturers and sells it under its own brand-name. Have they done the 7900GS justice? Read on to find out.

The 7900GS chipset really needs no introduction. Like the 7900GT it retains PureVideo/PureVideo HD support for XHD resolutions (2560x1600), Shader Model 3.0 support, HDR, transparency anti-aliasing and SLI. This is virtually the whole feature pack of the G70 GPU series with no important feature having been left out. This is a totally un-heard of move when one keeps in mind that this is a lower-end mainstream offering.

Specification Table
  Nvidia 7900GS Nvidia 7900GT
DirectX version 9.0C 9.0C
Shader Model 3.0 3.0
Vertex shaders 7 8
Pixel shaders 20 24
Unified shaders - -
GPU clock frequency 450 450
Memory clock frequency 660 660
Memory 256 256
Memory-bus 256 256
PEG connections 1 1

As you can see the 7900 GS is identical to the 7900 GT in clock speeds. The differences introduced have been the elimination of vertex pipeline and four pixel pipelines. This translates to about 20 percent performance loss as compared to the 7900 GT and this will be clearly illustrated in the test's we have carried out on the card.

The test unit we received from Zebronics was a stock edition in terms of memory and clock speeds. The Zebronics 7900 GS ships on a plain red PCB. While retaining the 7900GS' stock speeds the developers have chosen to modify the HSF. This will allow you to overclock the card considerably and adds a layer of stability to the card as it dissipates the heat generated by the card more efficiently. Though the HSF has been modified, it does nothing for the physical appearance of the card. The HSF is an ugly black unit, which unlike offerings from other manufacturers looks like a cut-paste job. It’s positioning and symmetrical flow is totally at odds with the card’s PCB. This spoils the overall appearance of the card making it look just plain bad.


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great!.............i am getting one for myself.thank god i didnt buy 7600 gt till now or i would have been sorry
ankur singh @ Feb 17,2007
It shouldve been compared to a competitive 7900 GS to evaluate .... a consumer wont mind spending 500 bucks more to get a better deal.
MaxAxe @ Jan 05,2007
Its too expensive, especially when you can get a 7900GT at around 1-1.5k more. In the US you can get a 7950GT at this price.
Soham Dutta @ Jan 03,2007
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