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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ViRGE - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
Carfax, they have a standard testbed, so the numbers from the other NV cards come from previous benchmarks. If they upgrade the drivers on everything else, they'll have to re-run the benchmarks on everything else.Cybercat - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
Very nice performance. Best mainstream card in a LONG time.Carfax - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
WHY where two sets of drivers used?!? Why couldn't you just use the 65.76 drivers for both the 6600GT and the rest of the Nvidia cards?ViRGE - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
And continuing on #20's tangent, the 5950 Ultra beats the 6600GT by 200%? That definitely isn't right.railer - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
I don't think those Jedi Knight results are correct. 9800xt beats the 9700 pro by 300%? I think not......Doormat - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
"That isn't to say that they are less power hungry than an AGP card that requires external power, but that the PCI Express slot supplies enough voltage to the card that it doesn't need any more juice."Nitpick: the AGP and PCIE slots provides enough voltage, but the main restriction is current. Each spec is designed to deliver so many amps of current at the specified voltage. As cards get bigger and badder, they draw more current, and need the extra power hookups.
LoneWolf15 - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
I'm puzzled as to why the 6600GT beats the 6800(straight) so often. Doesn't the 6800 have a full 256-bit path?neogodless - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
Yes, fix "looses" on the final page!Crazy to see a Radeon 9700 Pro do so poorly... very surprised it's doing poorly compared to the 9600/X600. Is that right? Doesn't seem right to me...
Jalf - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
#14: Yeah, but looks kinda weird that half the charts only shows those two cards, while the other half shows the full spectrum :)Falloutboy - Tuesday, September 7, 2004 - link
looks pretty good to me even at its worse its still on par with a 9800xt and in alot of games is besting the x800pro looks like a pretty good deal at 200 bucks prolly will go cheaper once it hits the stores in mass