3Digest, March 2005
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB DDR3 (350/1000 MHz)
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This chip is presented by Galaxy GeForce 6800 GT, 256MB, AGP card.
Features:
- NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT GPU (16 pipelines), 350 MHz core clock;
- 256MB DDR3 SGRAM in BGA chips. 500 (1000) MHz max. clock rate.
- 256-bit bus;
- Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode without optimizations is 5600 megapixels/sec and 5600 megatexels/sec.
By the end of the month the product has MSRP of $399 (the real value is about $420-440 considering the newness), supports Directx 9.0c.
This $400-450 new-generation product supports all modern technologies, including shaders 3.0. The card has AGP x8/x4 bus, 256MB GDDR3 SDRAM in 8 chips on the front PCB side.
2.0ns Samsung (GDDR3) memory chips indicate 500 (1000) MHz clock. 256-bit bus.
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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