This GPU is presented by the reference NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS PCI-E 256MB DDR3 (425/1000 MHz), PCI-E.

Features:

• NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS GPU, 425 MHz clock rate;
• Pixel pipelines: 12
• Vertex pipelines: 5
• Texture processors: 12
• ROPs: 12
• 256MB DDR3 SGRAM in 8 Samsung BGA chips. 500 (1000) MHz max. clock rate.
• 256-bit bus;
• Peak fill rate in the multitexturing mode without optimizations is 5100 megapixels/sec and 5100 megatexels/sec.

By the end of the month the product costs $160-180, supports DirectX 9.0c.

This product is intended for the below $200 price segment. It supports all innovations including SM 3.0.

2.0ns fetch indicates the actual 500 (1000) MHz. The product was released in November as a rival to ATI X1600 XT. However, it has no card to compete with after the latter became cheaper.

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On September 15, 2006 the latest drivers from NVIDIA were 91.47 WHQL for Windows XP.

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