Official GeForce 6600 Thread

[CU]

The 6600GT looks like it could win over a 6800nu with alittle overclocking based the 3dmark scores. Wish the agp version was out now.

 

[Marsumane]

You really cant consider that possibility. I mean the 6800nu can oc also, as well as unlock pipelines. In any case, an unfair comparison. And who cares about 3dmark. Look at the card. 5800u (128bit memory bus, 500mhz core, 500mhz ram) Looks like it will have similar weaknesses such as high settings eating the card alive. The 6800nu on the other hand, doesnt seem to have the weakness of a 128bit memory bus. I suspect that card to be better at higher settings by quite the margin.

 

[CU]

Yes at higher settings the 6800nu will win. I was mainly just saying that it should perform very well for its price. Maybe I went alittle overboard with my comparision though.

 

[Tab]

Well, the 6600GT does have MUCH faster ram than the 6800....

 

[SneakyStuff]

The 6600 GT is supposed to be able to notch over 42 FPS in Doom 3 at 1600 X 1200. So I'll wait and see, but this card looks like it will SINK the 9800 series. Oh yea, not to mention the SLI option, that looks quite attractive. The card's not even out yet, and i'm already looking to buy one.

 

[Tab]

Same, ATi better pull something quick. Not to mention where are the PCI-E mobos!!!

 

[SneakyStuff]

Originally posted by: Tabb
Same, ATi better pull something quick. Not to mention where are the PCI-E mobos!!!

Nforce 4 It'll be here soon.

 

[Tab]

Horray! Its still augest, and they'll come around october at the earilest.

 

[SneakyStuff]

AnAnd review is UP UP UP!

 

[Tab]

I am somewhat dissapointed, its hitting below 30 FPS someplaces... Something I don't understand with AnAndTech is why do we have 1280x960 used? Who the hell uses that resolution? Not to mention I really wish they would mark the lowest/highest frame rate they had in the games.... We really need a Combo with HardOCPs Line Graphs/ Xbits Bar Graphs, that'd be awesome review IMHO...

 

[orangat]

Originally posted by: Tabb
I am somewhat dissapointed, its hitting below 30 FPS someplaces... Something I don't understand with AnAndTech is why do we have 1280x960 used? Who the hell uses that resolution? Not to mention I really wish they would mark the lowest/highest frame rate they had in the games.... We really need a Combo with HardOCPs Line Graphs/ Xbits Bar Graphs, that'd be awesome review IMHO...

Yes but compared to a 9800Pro or X600XT, it does more than ok.

To a games enthusiast though, this card won't cut mustard because the frame rates really sink with AA/AF with the recent batch of FPS.

 

[Tab]

Originally posted by: orangat

Originally posted by: Tabb
I am somewhat dissapointed, its hitting below 30 FPS someplaces... Something I don't understand with AnAndTech is why do we have 1280x960 used? Who the hell uses that resolution? Not to mention I really wish they would mark the lowest/highest frame rate they had in the games.... We really need a Combo with HardOCPs Line Graphs/ Xbits Bar Graphs, that'd be awesome review IMHO...

Yes but compared to a 9800Pro or X600XT, it does more than ok.

To a games enthusiast though, this card won't cut mustard because the frame rates really sink with AA/AF with the recent batch of FPS.

Bah! Give me no less than 30 FPS @ 1280x1024 and I'll buy the card. I hope the X700 puts up a good fight

 

[Budarow]

WE HAVE A WINNER!!! A "mid-range" next generation part actually beats the "top of the line" previous generation part! Looks like I jumped too early and bought 2 9800 Pro's and 1 5900 NU BEFORE the 6600GT was announced. The last 3-4 years all the mid-range cards sucked compared to the top end cards from the previous years card.

Competition between ATI and nVidia has never been healthier!!

 

[KevinH]

http://www.firingsquad.com/har...vidia_geforce_6600_gt/

Hey OP...update your post to incluce the review the boys over at firing squad did. This card in a PCI-Express solution is SOO going to be my next upgrade. Soon as my system shows some wear...BAM...SLI BABY!

 

[zephyrprime]

I've seen some benches of the x700. It's just incredible how much ATI OpenGL performance sucks. The X700 is very competitive on everything compared to the 6600 except OpenGL. In that one field, the 6600 is like ~150% faster. That's just crazy!

 

[Genx87]

To a games enthusiast though, this card won't cut mustard because the frame rates really sink with AA/AF with the recent batch of FPS.

This is true but a true "games" enthusiast who wants top notch performace will be in the 6800GT range

 

[TheAudit]

Originally posted by: Genx87

To a games enthusiast though, this card won't cut mustard because the frame rates really sink with AA/AF with the recent batch of FPS.

This is true but a true "games" enthusiast who wants top notch performace will be in the 6800GT range

 

[deldd]

I'm looking forward to the agp version of this card. Might also use this one as my first PCIe setup.

 

[amheck]

I'm also looking forward to seeing how the 6600GT compares to the 6800LE. I wonder if the 256-bit mem. interface will make that much of a difference.

I saw the suggest retail of the 6600GT was $230. That's pretty close to the 6800NU, too. Tough call....... I'll be upgrading near the end of this year so that should be enough time for everything to play out.

 

[jm0ris0n]

According to HARD-OCP the retail price for the 6600GT is 199.99.

The GeForce 6600GT is the $199 part and has 8 pixel-pipelines, 3 vertex engines and is using a 128-bit memory bus connected to GDDR3. The GeForce 6600 has everything the 6600GT has except it uses DDR1 and will be clocked lower on the core and memory

I really want to know when I can get my hands on one of these cards !

Because of the 6600GT , this fall now reminds me of 2002 when the ti4200 came out. Excellent performance, great price

 

[batmanuel]

Originally posted by: Alkaline5

Originally posted by: Jeff7181<BR>I can't help thinking SLI won't stick around much longer than it did last time. I mean... when the Voodoo SLI cards were replaced by more powerful single cards, what were people saying? "Man, this single card can do so much more than those two... and it takes up less space in my case too.".

The death of 3dfx's SLI has more to do with the limit of only 1 AGP slot per mobo than anything else. One card running off the AGP slot and another running off the PCI bus would have yielded minimal (or none) performance gains as GPUs became more powerful. PCI-E, of course, removes that bottleneck and that's why SLI is being brought back.<BR><BR>

The only advantage of SLI is that you can get a 6600GT now and it'll be fast enough for most things... then when it's too slow you can get a 2nd one, IF you bought a motherboard that supports it... if not, well, you're SOL.

More upgrade options are never a bad thing IMO.

Of course, with dual PCI-E you actually have a x16 slot and a second x8 slot with the extra conductors needed to run a graphics card, so even in the new incarnation of SLI you wind up with one card getting less bandwidth than the other. Right now, though, I think even x8 provides enough bandwidth so that a 6600GT ought not to be bottlenecked.

Also, does the 6600 have the hardware video encoder that the 6800 has? Is the encoder even working on the 6800s yet? Anyone know?

 

[Auric]

Mmm competition good. I reckon a 6600GT or X700 will soon be mine. NVIDIA has not even been on the RADAR in ages but as they finally seem to have a competitive product that is not a power sucking heat beast I may be willing to sacrifice some TVO quality for some friggin' useable FPD scaling options (particularly maintain AR) which ATI continues to neglect in favour of developing an awful new control panel interface. Of course if they come through with scaling then forget that I even considering straying as TVO is important to me and the odd OpenGL game is not

Oh, and SLI seems promising but I may want a replacement AGP card before a good dual PCI-E mainboard emerges. It will be interesting to see how SLI plays out as far as performance, price, profits and market positioning of mid-range cards compared to higher-end ones (like two $200 cards versus one $400).

 

[stardust]

If this card comes out in mass and well below MSRP after nforce4 shows up, i'll definitely get two of these. Maybe we'll even see discounts or "matched pairs" like we do with dual channel memory

Just a thought..

 

[Tab]

Originally posted by: stardust
If this card comes out in mass and well below MSRP after nforce4 shows up, i'll definitely get two of these. Maybe we'll even see discounts or "matched pairs" like we do with dual channel memory

Just a thought..

I was thinking the same thing, if a pair was sold around ~$350 I would seriously look into it.

 

[iversonyin]

i hav a question. how bad would the 128-bit memory bandiwdth hurt?