3Digest, March 2005
NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 (500/1000 MHz)
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This GPU is presented by Galaxy GeForce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 (500/1000 MHz) PCI-Express.
Features:
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT GPU (8 pixel and 3 vertex pipelines), 500 MHz clock;
- 128MB GDDR3 in BGA package; 500 (100) MHz max. clock rate.
- 128-bit bus;
- Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode without optimizations is 4000 megapixels/sec and 4000 megatexels/sec.
By the end of the month the product costs $200-220, supports Directx 9.0c (shaders 3.0).
This mid-end card was first tested in September 2004.
This $200-220 product is rather successful and outperforms previous-generation high-end cards.
You can read more on GeForce 6 Series in our reviews: Theoretical and analytical graphics card reviews containing functional analysis of NVIDIA GPUs
On March 10, 2005 the latest drivers from NVIDIA were 75.90, 76.10, 71.84 (WHQL, release) for Windows XP.
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