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 $180-200, supports Directx 9.0c (shaders 3.0).

We started testing this mid-end novelty early in September 2004.

This $190 product is rather successful outperforming the 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 April 10, 2005 the latest drivers package from NVIDIA was 71.89 WHQL release for Windows xP.