Nvidia Corporation, the leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, launched yesterday the new NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2, which is said to be the world's fastest graphics card, being already available at the company's add-in card partners.

The reason why the manufacturer "dares" to call its latest graphics card the fastest is that the GeForce 7950 GX2 is able to provide a 72% increase of the power as opposed to other previously released graphics cards. This speed is obtained by the two GeForce 7950 graphics processing units (GPUs) based on one card, plus the Quad NVIDIA SLI technology - allowing all the authorized system builders to benefit from the combined power of two GeForce 7950 GX2 graphic cards supported by four GPUs in order to deliver an unmatched resolution of 2560x1600 in a HD format.

Moreover, the users benefit from the functions offered by hardware accelerated H.264 supported through NVIDIA PureVideo technology, a unique combination of HD video processors and software, delivering a HD home-theater quality video experience to the PC.

We already talked about Nvidia's SLI technology, but it is worth other, maybe redundant, explanations. This technology enables the users to scale the graphics performance because this apparently simple combination of Nvidia nForce SLI MCP-based motherboard and multiple Nvidia graphics solutions determines 'a revolution' of the entire platform, which can be understood only by an experimented user.

"The GeForce 7950 GX2 is a great card for the gamer that's looking for the absolute best performance in a single graphics card solution," said Ujesh Desai, general manager of desktop GPUs at NVIDIA.

"With that kind of power gamers can crank up their screen resolution to an unbelievable 2560x1600 for an extreme high definition gaming experience."

Other features offered by the GeForce 7950 GX2 are the extraordinary 76.8 GB per second memory bandwidth and 24 billion texels per second of fill rate on a single card, 1GB of fast GDDR3 video memory on a single card, but also dual dual-link DVI support- for high-definition, widescreen flat panel displays that support resolutions up to 2560x1600 for an ultra-realistic HD gaming experience.