Expand your Christmas wishlist

Nov 14, 2005 15:27 GMT  ·  By

Users are already writing down their Christmas lists for the festive season, and computer games and hardware are expected to be hot gifts again this year. But what can you buy for the gamer in your life that has everything?

Nvidia has announced the availability of the new Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX 512 graphics processing unit (GPU). The company's GeForce 7800 GTX graphics chip already powers the fastest graphics cards around.

GeForce 7800 GTX 512 GPU delivers great performance on some of the most anticipated games to be released this Christmas, with a measured performance increase of 33% over the previous award-winning GeForce 7800 GTX.

The Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX 512 GPU is based on the GeForce 7 Series architecture featuring extreme visual effects technologies, including support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, Nvidia SLI technology, High Dynamic Range (HDR) lighting effects, Nvidia PureVideo technology, advanced antialiasing algorithms and others. In addition, Nvidia added support for 512MB of fast graphics memory and has tuned the graphics engine's core clock to turbo-charge the GeForce 7800 GTX 512.

Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX 512 GPU-based graphics cards are available at major online retailers and from partners such as Asus, BFG, EVGA, Gainward, MSI, Point of View and XFX. Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX 512 GPUs are also powering the fast gaming systems from systems builders including ABS, Alienware, Axcelerate Computers, Biohazard PC, Cyberpower, Falcon Northwest, Hypersonic, iBuyPower and others.