NVIDIA's GeForce 7 Update: Introducing the 7900 GTX, 7900 GT & 7600 GT @ HotHardware

Product refreshes in the Graphics world have tended to become rather casual, commonplace occurrences. A little tweak here, a clock speed bump there and presto, there's a new SKU to fill the store shelves and something new to look at in the benchmarks. Historically, refreshes or "kickers" as they are sometimes known, often are just the result of manufacturing process enhancements, a different bond-out option on the GPU, or even a software modification that unlocks or locks, as the case may be, certain features within the architecture. NVIDIA's launch of new additions to their GeForce 7 line-up is by no means this sort of refresh, however. In fact, this launch is about as dramatic a change that one can make to the architecture, without completely ripping it up.