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3Digest: October 2005
NVIDIA GeForce 6600 512MB DDR2 (300/550 MHz)







This GPU is presented by Palit GeForce 6600V+ PCI-E.




Features:

  • NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GPU (8 pixel 3 vertex pipelines), 300 MHz clock, PCI-Express 16x;
  • 512MB DDR2 SGRAM in BGA chips; 275 (550) MHz max. clock rate.
  • 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 $110-130, supports DirectX 9.0c (shaders 3.0).

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

You can read more on GeForce 6 Series in our reviews: Theoretical and analytical graphics card reviews containing functional analysis of NVIDIA GPUs

On October 15, 2005 the latest drivers from NVIDIA are 81.85, 81.87 for Windows XP.


Andrey Vorobiev (Anvakams@ixbt.com)

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