New GeForce 7800 GS AGP Brings the Award-Winning GeForce 7 Series Graphics Architecture to the Huge Installed Base of AGP-Equipped PCs

SANTA CLARA, CA—FEBRUARY 2, 2006—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in programmable graphics processor technologies, today announced the new NVIDIA® GeForce 7800 GS graphics processing unit (GPU) for AGP-based systems. Boasting the feature set of the award-winning GeForce 7800 GPUs, the new GeForce 7800 GS GPU features advanced technologies.

The NVIDIA GeForce 7800GS AGP press release in its full extent can be read here. Although Phoronix has not posted any previews of these initial GeForce 7 cards (as if you haven't yet made the jump to PCI Express, it's about time!), a quick search can yield some results. Our NVIDIA sources have yet to reveal whether this AGP 8x part is presently supported by the NVIDIA 1.0-8178 Linux display drivers, although in all likelihood, it should indeed operate flawlessly, unlike the ATI Radeon X1000 series that continue to lack any sort of support at this time with fglrx.