December 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;
- 128 MB DDR SGRAM in BGA package; 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 $150-170, supports DirectX 9.0c (shaders 3.0).
This novelty was first tested in September 2004. It's designed for middle-end segment and now has only PCI-E interface.
This $150 product competes well with high-end cards of the previous generation.
You can read more on GeForce 6 Series in our reviews: Theoretical and analytical graphics card reviews containing functional analysis of NVIDIA GPUs
On December 10, 2004 the latest driver from NVIDIA are 70.90, 71.20 for Windows XP.
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