NVIDIA Introduces The GeForce 6600 GPU

KingFish (KingFish) NVIDIA Corporation today introduced the GeForce™ 6600 GT and GeForce 6600, the latest additions to its GeForce 6 Series of graphics processing units.

August 12, 2004 11:59 PM ET in News,

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 (1600×1200x32) settings.

Source: NVidia

16 Comments:

  1. entropy
    13 Aug '04, 4:25 am

    WOW! For the price of a 9800 pro! Mine gives me hell at medium, 1024x768 Wonder how it holds up in non-OpenGL games, though...

  2. RWB
    13 Aug '04, 4:27 am

    I just bought a Radeon 9800 Pro today...

  3. Templar
    13 Aug '04, 4:57 am

    The announcement of these cards has made me seriously reconsider my 6800 GT purchase. Especially at 42 frames w/ high quality @ 1600x1200x32

  4. madmat
    13 Aug '04, 5:24 am

    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.

  5. entropy
    13 Aug '04, 5:27 am

    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

  6. Geeky1
    13 Aug '04, 5:30 am

    << gets 50fps+ @ 1600x1200, 32 bit color, maximum detail, 2x fsaa, 4x af

  7. entropy
    13 Aug '04, 5:37 am

    Geeky: Piss off Is that with your GT or 9800pro/xt?

  8. Geeky1
    13 Aug '04, 5:38 am

    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.

  9. entropy
    13 Aug '04, 5:42 am

    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...?

  10. Geeky1
    13 Aug '04, 5:44 am

    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...

  11. KingFish
    13 Aug '04, 12:01 pm

    You gonna sell that card geeky?

    KF

  12. GnomeWizardd
    13 Aug '04, 12:54 pm

    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

  13. Geeky1
    13 Aug '04, 4:53 pm
    Quoting KingFish

    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.

  14. entropy
    13 Aug '04, 5:15 pm

    I could really use an MSI 9800pro, but idk where/how to sell mine to begin with N then Geeky hasta go and keep his :rollseyes:

  15. canadian (Guest)
    19 Aug '04, 1:50 am

    What cad would you guys recommend, Ati Radeon 9800 pro 128, or Nvidia 6600 GT?
    Thanks.

  16. Eclip (Guest)
    9 Sep '04, 7:23 pm

    Canadian 6600 GT.

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