Introduction:

NVIDIA TurboCache is available in the NVIDIA GeForce 6200 GPU for PCI Express desktop PCs and NVIDIA GeForce Go 6200 GPU for PCI Express notebook PCs. By allowing the graphics processing unit (GPU) to share the capacity and bandwidth of dedicated video memory and dynamically available system memory, TurboCache turbocharges performance and provides larger total graphics memory.

The e-GeForce 6200 TurboCache we have is the 64MB On-Board DDR, Supporting 256MB System RAM, TV-Out, PCI-Express Graphics Processing Unit from EVGA. Today we are going to take this entry level wonder for a spin and see what gives with NVIDIA's new TurboCache technology. We aren't going to bore with lenghty introductions and technical jargon, so we will get right to the technical aspects of this GPU.

e-GeForce 6200 TurboCache Features:

• NVIDIA® TurboCache™ Technology
• NVIDIA® PureVideo™ Technology
• NVIDIA® CineFX 3.0 Engine
• Adaptable Programmable Video Processor
• 128-bit studio precision color
• NVIDIA® ForceWare™ unified driver
• Complete Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0
• Shader Model 3.0 support
• NVIDIA® nView™ multi display technology
• NVIDIA® Digital Vibrance Control™ 3.0
• Dual 400MHz RAMDACs
• Integrated TV Encoder (1024x768 maximum resolution)

Minimum System Requirements:

• Intel Pentium® 4/AMD® Athlon XP™ processor or higher
• For Full 256MB support, 512MB system memory required
• 300 watt or greater power supply unit
• Available 16 channel PCI-Express slot
• CD-Rom Drive
• Windows® 98SE/Me/NT 4.0® SP6/2000/XP

Performance:

• 350 (MHz) GPU
• 550 (MHz) Effective Memory Clock
• 13.6 (GB/sec) Effective Memory Bandwidth
• 1.4 (billion pixels/sec) Fill Rate
• 4 (peak) Pixels per Clock
• 263 (million) Vertices per Second