GeForce 6600GT AGP Preview @ [H]ard|OCP

**MIG-31** · Nov 16, 2004, 07:45 PM

What has become quite possibly the best mainstream video card is now catering to an even wider audience, and thank goodness for that. NVIDIA announced the new GeForce 6600 series of video cards back in mid August and we did a short technical preview Here of this new series. To sum up the technical specifications, the 6600GT is an 8 pipeline / 3 vertex unit video card clocked at a very high 500MHz GPU frequency using GDDR3 memory on a 128-bit memory bus clocked at 500MHz (1GHz DDR). The vanilla 6600 also has 8 pixel pipelines and 3 vertex units, but it has a frequency reduced GPU core speed of 300MHz and uses DDR1 memory clocked at the manufacturer's discretion.

Both video cards are using the NV43 GPU, which is built on the 11nm manufacturing process and fully supports every single feature that the GeForce 6800 series (NV40) possesses. This means they support Shader Model 3.0, Floating Point 16 Frame Buffer with OpenEXR support, UltraShadow II, and the Video Processor.

Almost a month later NVIDIA revealed to the world just how powerful their GeForce 6600GT really was. We previewed the GeForce 6600GT PCI-Express. At the time all we had to compare it to was the ATI Radeon X600XT which was the direct competition for it when we did the preview. The GeForce 6600GT easily walked away the winner. It wasn’t until later that month when ATI launched their performance mainstream video card the Radeon X700XT that we could finally pit the GeForce 6600GT against its proper competitor. The results quite shocked us, with the GeForce 6600GT coming out on top in almost every single game tested. Clearly the PCI-Express GeForce 6600GT gave us a better gaming experience for the price of $199.
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Nov 16, 2004, 07:45 PM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 55,776 Rep Power: 444 System Specs	GeForce 6600GT AGP Preview @ [H]ard\|OCP What has become quite possibly the best mainstream video card is now catering to an even wider audience, and thank goodness for that. NVIDIA announced the new GeForce 6600 series of video cards back in mid August and we did a short technical preview Here of this new series. To sum up the technical specifications, the 6600GT is an 8 pipeline / 3 vertex unit video card clocked at a very high 500MHz GPU frequency using GDDR3 memory on a 128-bit memory bus clocked at 500MHz (1GHz DDR). The vanilla 6600 also has 8 pixel pipelines and 3 vertex units, but it has a frequency reduced GPU core speed of 300MHz and uses DDR1 memory clocked at the manufacturer's discretion. Both video cards are using the NV43 GPU, which is built on the 11nm manufacturing process and fully supports every single feature that the GeForce 6800 series (NV40) possesses. This means they support Shader Model 3.0, Floating Point 16 Frame Buffer with OpenEXR support, UltraShadow II, and the Video Processor. Almost a month later NVIDIA revealed to the world just how powerful their GeForce 6600GT really was. We previewed the GeForce 6600GT PCI-Express. At the time all we had to compare it to was the ATI Radeon X600XT which was the direct competition for it when we did the preview. The GeForce 6600GT easily walked away the winner. It wasn’t until later that month when ATI launched their performance mainstream video card the Radeon X700XT that we could finally pit the GeForce 6600GT against its proper competitor. The results quite shocked us, with the GeForce 6600GT coming out on top in almost every single game tested. Clearly the PCI-Express GeForce 6600GT gave us a better gaming experience for the price of $199. _______________ Preview: [H]ard\|OCP __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here