This card's magic is that it actually has G71, Geforce 7800 GT PCIe core bridged down to AGP. It has G70 core with full 20 pipelines that worked at 425 MHz and famous BR2 chip managed to bridge the card down to AGP. It finally made perfect sense as 20 pipelines has to be faster than the 16 that you get with EVGA card. EVGA 7800 GS card works at 460 MHz 1350Mhz core and we managed to reproduce the same clocks with the Gainward card. The greatest thing about this card is that it actually has 512 MB memory and this is probably the fastest card with the most of memory that your money can buy. It has eight memory chips working at 1200 MHz but they could be clocked even more. The card has 425MHz core but it worked just as fine at 460MHz.

The Inquirer