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[tedtropy]

NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Preview / Benches

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2196&p=2

For now it looks like it's exlusive to the PCI Express form, but it's estimated to cost around $200 on release and is running loops around any present solutions at that price. I fear it may soon be time for another upgrade...

 

[Bregor]

It looks very good. If Nvidia can provide sufficient numbers of them on time (unlike the 6800), then they should really clean up.

 

[The Shadow]

Is this the first genuine PCI Express part or is it still on that bridge?

 

[tedtropy]

Is this the first genuine PCI Express part or is it still on that bridge?

I'm interested in knowing the answer to that as well, as I don't see it mentioned in the preview...

 

[Bregor]

Is this the first genuine PCI Express part or is it still on that bridge?

I don't think it matters. There doesn't seem to be any performance hit for using the bridge currently.

Then again, the current generation of cards/games aren't getting any significant boost from PCI Express in the first place.

 

[tedtropy]

I really don't understand why they're initially releasing a value-based card on such a new and still fairly uncommon format. This thing should be AGP based from the get-go as an option, and hopefully nVidia wises up and does just that...

 

[nubbe]

Why focus on PCIE?

OEM... thats why.. the BIG bucks

 

[tedtropy]

Why focus on PCIE?

OEM... thats why.. the BIG bucks

Ah, touché...

 

[Supasso]

It's native PCI Express.

 

[DaCocoBrova]

I'm so reluctant to even get a PCI-E motherboard. I want a mix of PCI-E and PCI. I never have enough PCI slots as it is now...

 

[Slo]

VERY nice card.

 

[teh_pwn]

"The New '9800 Pro' Of Video Cards?"

It's a very nice mid range card, but it seriously lacks in the interface. You'd have to buy a new mobo, processor and RAM because mobos that use PCIE have those crazy P4 Prescotts, DDR II.

I'm going to grab a 6800 GT, 6800 Ultra, or X800 XT once prices go down. Not only are they much faster, they're much cheaper effectively because you don't have to buy all that stuff to use it.

 

[Phoenix]

Its a great card, until you turn on antialiasing - then it becomes just a 'good' card.

 

[mashoutposse]

Its a great card, until you turn on antialiasing - then it becomes just a 'good' card.

Even with AA/AF on, it's still on par or faster than a 9800XT -- for $200, that makes it a 'great' card, IMO.

Compare it with ATi's $200 PCI-E card:

 

[Phoenix]

It loses half its performance turning on AA. If having 100% of performance is great, and having 50% performance is great too - not sure what your definition of great is... Beating ATI is for fanboys. Neither ATI nor nVidia put money in my pocket so I could care less who wins between the two.

Note: included relevant chart that you excluded that hilights the performance in "great" mode...

 

[tedtropy]

You'll be hard-pressed to find a ~$200 video card that'll do FSAA decently in any modern games at any sane resolutions. I mean, how many of us with 9800 Pros are using AA in modern games? I think I enabled it in Doom 3 for all of five minutes just to see how she'd chug. It does make older (Quake 3-based games, etc) look pretty good though with basically no performance hit.

 

[Uncle Dukey]

I think I'm going to wait until the 6600 GT AGP comes out before buying a new video card..

 

[tenchir]

x800XT cards are coming out. They are basically lowered clocked x800 XTPE, meaning they have the full 16 pipelines(x800Pro cards only have 12 pipes enabled), but have lowered RAM/Core speed.

x800xtpe ~$500 USD 16x1 pipes@520/560
x800xt ~$400 USD 16x1 pipes@500/500
x800pro ~$300 USD 12x1 pipes@475/450

Edit: Ack, the title of the thread confused me.

 

[tenchir]

doublepost

 

[Mr Gump]

x800XT cards are coming out. They are basically lowered clocked x800 XTPE, meaning they have the full 16 pipelines(x800Pro cards only have 12 pipes enabled), but have lowered RAM/Core speed.

x800xtpe ~$500 USD 16x1 pipes@520/560
x800xt ~$400 USD 16x1 pipes@500/500
x800pro ~$300 USD 12x1 pipes@475/450

Edit: Ack, the title of the thread confused me.

12 pipelines enabled, but is it possible to maybe soft mod it?

 

[marsomega]

12 pipelines enabled, but is it possible to maybe soft mod it?

The VIVO models are the ones with the higher modding success rate.