X-bitlabs reviews Gainward Bliss 8800 GT 1024MB GS video card
You do not come across really unique graphics cards very often, especially in the high-performance segment. Although we have to admit that the situation starts changing lately. Today we are going to introduce to you a truly unique solution like that from Gainward. Its main distinguishing feature is 1GB of onboard video memory.
Some time ago there was no such thing as a top-performance graphics card with a unique design. All high-class cards were not only copies of the reference designs from Nvidia and ATI but were even manufactured for the GPU developers at contracted facilities and then shipped ready-made to their partners. Any experiments with the PCB design were absolutely forbidden. Occasionally you could see a graphics card with a non-standard cooler, but most often the replacement of the stickers with the graphics card vendor's own was the single "modification". A few pre-overclocked products could also be released. This approach is indeed justifiable as it ensures high quality because the PCB design and the cooling system are developed by the GPU developers themselves. On the other hand, there have been examples when this approach didn't work right. We can recall the problem with a wrong rating of a resistor on early Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX or the obviously bad cooler of the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT. So, even GPU developers make mistakes sometimes...
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