Graphics card manufacturer Galaxy recently released information about its new graphics cards series with the timid name “Masterpiece”. The new series is, as the name may not have eluded you, a venture for the more extreme and its first card shows this perfectly well. Galaxy Masterpiece dual-7600GT is a graphics card using two GeForce 7600GT circuits for SLI configuration on the same card. We’ve earlier reported about this card and now it seems to be ready to be shipped. The graphics card has no internal PCI Express bridge which means that you need an SLI motherboard and no possibility of using the card in a Quad SLI setup no matter how modified the drivers are. Galaxy promises that the new series will use the best components you can find through tailor-made circuit boards and high quality capacitors.
“The first graphics board in the series is Galaxy Masterpiece dual-7600 GT, which is based on two GeForce 7600 GT graphics processors and 512MB of GDDR3 memory (256MB per chip). Just as recommended by Nvidia, the GPU is clocked at 560MHz, while the memory operates at 1400MHz. Given that every GeForce 7600 GT chip has 12 pixel processors, end-users will get 24 pixel processors in total with the two chips that function in multi-GPU SLI mode.”
The price of Galaxy Masterpiece dual-7600GT is expected to be below that of two 7600GT cards when it is released in August. The question is how well it performs compared to a true 24 pipelines graphics card such as 7900GTX or 7900GT.
