NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT: Bringing NV4x to the Masses
by Derek Wilson on September 7, 2004 9:00 AM EST- Posted in
- GPUs
Aquamark 3 Performance
The 6600 GT posts a very nice score in a dead heat with the GeForce 6800 and Radeon X800 Pro. The Aquamark 3 benchmark is sensitive to CPU speed, and the 6600 GT score may be a little higher than it should due to the fact that its running on a P4 3.4 EE rather than the 3400+ behind the more poewrful cards. At the same time, this benchmark is mostly GPU limited and it is very impressive to see a midrange card score over 50 no matter what CPU it's running on.
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trenzterra - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
Are you reviewing a 256mb or 128mb card? I can't imagine a 128mb card beating the hell out of X800 and even their 6800.coldpower27 - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
oops i mean it's probably for Socket 604 so they need 2 Xeons, preferably the Nocona's but they aren't LGA775 :Dcoldpower27 - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
Yeh that would be possible in a way I believe,You can bench the Pentium 4 Prescott 3.4GHZ for i875P, with DDR400 2-2-2-5 for the AGP GPU.
Then you can bench the Prescott 3.4GHZ LGA775 on the i925X plaform with DDR2-533 4-4-4-12, for the PCI Express GPU that would be roughly equivalent.
Or you can supplement both with the Pentium 4 EE 3.4GHZ if you got both the S478 and LGA775 Edition of those two processors.
It's too bad you can't bench SLI, but it's hard to expect them to, they need Xeons on the Tumwater chipset:S and isn't that for LGA775 only too? So they need 2 Noconas???
JackHawksmoor - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
Looks like a great card, but it looks like it's actually better than what they're showing here, since they're comparing it to weaker cards in systems with better CPUs...Really needs to be redone with everything but the video cards kept constant.
DEMO24 - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
Why the heck is that card beating a 6800? Hopefully that 6800 will pull ahead more than that with newer drivers.Cygni - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
RTFABored Guy - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
anyone know if the 6600 gpu will be available in an agp interface anytime soon?8NP4iN - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
nice to see a 200$ card beating a 450$ 9800XT or 9800 pro...cant wait to upgrade when nforce4 comes out
Carfax - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
I was just wondering, because I know the 65.76 drivers would have raised the 6800 series performance aswell!ZobarStyl - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
The point of the article was to compare the PCI-E mid-range, and guess what, if the 6600GT is 200 bucks, it's direct price competition is the x600XT and it can't even hold a candle to the 6600GT. If they release the AGP version at 200 it still is a great competitor to the 9800pro from performance alone, plus the added feature set is a bonus. nV is definitely taking advantage of the complete lack of midrange from ATi.