7900 GTX works at 650 MHz

NVIDIA’S flagship G71 won’t be able to get to the speeds the firm wanted it to. We reported before that Nvidia needs at least 700MHz to beat ATI’s R580 based X1900 XTX. However, according to our sources, the G71 will be nothing more than a 90 nanometre G70 die shrink. It won’t have more than 24 pipelines but you never know what Nvidia has exactly up its sleeves.

It’s sad to see that their new card won’t touch the top end ATI, but it appears it will cost significantly less. Check out the full posting at The Inquirer.