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Nice review guys.
GF6600 is a very interesting product, outperforming its HW specs in many cases as it's less than half a 6800GT. The fact it has only 4 ROPs is masked partly by it's 128-bit memory bus & the fact that games will likely be more shader bound in future. A great $/performance trade-off! I can't help but think of "Rampage" ideas. ;) I suspect HSI/AGP versions will sell like hotcakes when released.
This is completely rubbish however:
"We want to mark specifically the pioneering character of NVIDIA’s release. The GeForce 6600 family chips are in fact the first mainstream graphics processors intended for the PCI Express platform. Until now, this market niche was practically empty: versions of the GeForce FX with the HIS bridge couldn’t boast a high level of performance, while the RADEON X300 and X600 were nothing more but a reincarnation of the RADEON 9600, which was no speedy racer, either."
Ati "X" series are specifically designed for PCIE & were the first PCIE native platforms. By your own argument, as the NV43 is a cut-down derivative of the NV40 which is AGP interface, and is also nothing more than a reincarnation...
[Posted by: KazaaLite | Date: 09/07/04 11:33:52 PM]
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