3Digest: September 2006 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT PCI-E 256MB DDR3 (425/1000 MHz)

This GPU is presented by Galaxy GeForce 6800 XT PCI-E 256MB DDR3 (425/1000 MHz), PCI-E.

Features:

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT GPU, 425 MHz clock rate;
Pixel pipelines: 8
Vertex pipelines: 4
Texture processors: 8
ROPs: 8
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 3400 megapixels/sec and 3400 megatexels/sec.

By the end of the month the product costs $160-170, supports DirectX 9.0c. It's leaving the market.

This $190 and below produt supports all the innovations, including Shader Model 3.0. Has PCI-Express x16 interface.

2.0ns fetch time indicates the actual 500 (1000) MHz. This card was first intended only for OEMs, but is now available as a standalong rival of ATI X1600 XT.

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

Andrey Vorobiev (Anvakams@ixbt.com)

10.09.2006

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