NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT & 6800GT PCI-Express

Chaos · Sep 8, 2004, 02:24 AM

The GeForce 6600GT was hailed by NVIDIA as the Doom 3 GPU - we can clearly see that the performance that the GeForce 6600GT offers in Doom 3 is fantastic; especially when you consider that this graphics card is targeted at a considerably lower price range than the GeForce 6800GT. The claims of 42 fps at 1600x1200 have been met and surpassed, and we're very happy with this boards' Doom 3 performance. It does not seem to be phased by high resolution and 2xAA being enabled at the same time in this title.

On the other hand, the GeForce 6800GT performs exceptionally well, and if there wasn't a 60 frames per second cap on the game, there would be a whole lot more performance to be had from this board - we feel that it's also possible to run with 4xFSAA enabled at 1600x1200 as there is sufficient memory footprint on the board to allow this. However, with the game being based in a very dark environment, we did not see the need for any more than 2xAA, which is sure to give you fantastic performance coupled with great image quality; all at a fully playable 57.3 frames per second.

Source: Bit-Tech

nForcer · Sep 8, 2004, 05:11 AM

now why the hell are they saying the 66xx is still a bridged AGP version? Isn't the 66xx's PCI-Express Native?

nForcer · Sep 8, 2004, 05:19 AM

oh wait...read it wrong...

Sep 8, 2004, 02:24 AM	#1
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,268 Rep Power: 167 System Specs	NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT & 6800GT PCI-Express The GeForce 6600GT was hailed by NVIDIA as the Doom 3 GPU - we can clearly see that the performance that the GeForce 6600GT offers in Doom 3 is fantastic; especially when you consider that this graphics card is targeted at a considerably lower price range than the GeForce 6800GT. The claims of 42 fps at 1600x1200 have been met and surpassed, and we're very happy with this boards' Doom 3 performance. It does not seem to be phased by high resolution and 2xAA being enabled at the same time in this title. On the other hand, the GeForce 6800GT performs exceptionally well, and if there wasn't a 60 frames per second cap on the game, there would be a whole lot more performance to be had from this board - we feel that it's also possible to run with 4xFSAA enabled at 1600x1200 as there is sufficient memory footprint on the board to allow this. However, with the game being based in a very dark environment, we did not see the need for any more than 2xAA, which is sure to give you fantastic performance coupled with great image quality; all at a fully playable 57.3 frames per second. Source: Bit-Tech __________________

Sep 8, 2004, 05:11 AM	#2
nForcer Twice the fun! Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,404 Rep Power: 0	now why the hell are they saying the 66xx is still a bridged AGP version? Isn't the 66xx's PCI-Express Native?

Sep 8, 2004, 05:19 AM	#3
nForcer Twice the fun! Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 1,404 Rep Power: 0	oh wait...read it wrong...