I was expecting performance to be near to that of the 7900GT card and I was correct in every respect. The GIGABYTE 7900GS TurboForce outperformed the reference 7900GT in every performance metric. Not bad for a card that only recently was overtaken by the 7950GT. As the GIGABYTE card is less than $170 online at Newegg, this makes the card a great performer.