September 2004 3Digest:
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 128MB DDR (300/550 MHz)
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This GPU is presented by Leadtek WinFast PX6600 TD PCI-E card.
Features:
- NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GPU (8 pixel 3 vertex pipelines), 300 MHz clock, PCI-Express 16x;
- 128MB DDR SGRAM in BGA chips. 275 (550) MHz memory clock.
- 128-bit bus;
- Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode without optimizations is 2400 megapixels/sec and 2400 megatexels/sec.
By the end of the month the product costs $150-170, supports DirectX
9.0 (shaders 3.0).
This novelty entered testing early in September 2004. Designed for Middle segment; has only PCI-E for now.
At $150 it can compete with previous-generation High-End products.
You can read more on GeForce 6 Series in our reviews: Theoretical
and analytical graphics card reviews containing functional analysis
of NVIDIA GPUs.
On September 10, 2004 the latest drivers from NVIDIA were 65.76,
66.31 for Windows XP.
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