NVIDIA Introduces The GeForce 6600 GPU

KingFishKingFish
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
NVIDIA Corporation today introduced the GeForce™ 6600 GT and GeForce 6600, the latest additions to its GeForce 6 Series of graphics processing units.
These new products bring the feature set of NVIDIA’s flagship GeForce 6800 GPU, including support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and NVIDIA’s revolutionary UltraShadow II technology, to the mainstream market. The GeForce 6600 GT rips through DOOM 3™ at a stunning 42 frames per second at high quality, high-resolution (1600x1200x32) settings.
Source: NVidia

Comments

  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited August 2004
    WOW! For the price of a 9800 pro! Mine gives me hell at medium, 1024x768 :bawling: Wonder how it holds up in non-OpenGL games, though...
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    I just bought a Radeon 9800 Pro today... :eek2:
  • TemplarTemplar You first.
    edited August 2004
    The announcement of these cards has made me seriously reconsider my 6800 GT purchase. Especially at 42 frames w/ high quality @ 1600x1200x32
  • madmatmadmat
    edited August 2004
    The only thing that stops me from getting too excited about these cards is the 128bit memory bus, at least with the 6800 the bus is still 256bit and if the RivaTuner script actually works AND you've got a good card you can unlock the extra 4 pipes for a decent performance increase.
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited August 2004
    RWB, I shouldn't say that. It runs fairly well at those settings, but on occasion it'll drop pretty wickedly. I guess I'd rather have a steady 45 with sweet settings as opposed to 55 or so dropping to 25 at random times with OK settings. :( And I'll bet you get an r360 core, unlike me :bawling:
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2004
    << gets 50fps+ @ 1600x1200, 32 bit color, maximum detail, 2x fsaa, 4x af :D
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited August 2004
    Geeky: Piss off :bawling: Is that with your GT or 9800pro/xt?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2004
    The GT of course. The 9800pro/xt is sitting in its anti-static bag in a box full of dead hard drives next to one of my computers.
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited August 2004
    GRRRRR. This is the second time in ONE DAY that I've been forced to say you should be shot! How come you bought it if you don't use it...? :confused:
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2004
    Oh, I'll use it at some point. But for right now, I'm too lazy to deal with it. I have too much other **** on my plate atm. I'll stick it in one of the systems at some point. It was originally going in the dual athlon system, but since I can get an x800xt-pe for it, I may do that instead...
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited August 2004
    You gonna sell that card geeky?

    KF
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    heck I get 54 FPS at the same settings ( NO i didnt BUy doom III Just installed a friends copy ) and thats with a plain ole 6800
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2004
    KingFish wrote:
    You gonna sell that card geeky?

    KF

    Probably not. :(If I buy an x800 (which isn't likely, but it depends on how much I feel like spending when I'm ordering the stuff I need for school from Newegg...), I'd just end up moving all the cards around; the dual athlon system would get the x800, the dual xeon system would keep the 6800GT, the p4 would get the 9800 pro/xt, the athlon would keep the 9700 pro, and the dual p3 system would get the 8500. :-/
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited August 2004
    I could really use an MSI 9800pro, but idk where/how to sell mine to begin with :p N then Geeky hasta go and keep his :rollseyes:
  • canadian
    edited August 2004
    What cad would you guys recommend, Ati Radeon 9800 pro 128, or Nvidia 6600 GT?
    Thanks.
  • Eclip
    edited September 2004
    Canadian 6600 GT.
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