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GeForce 6600GT AGP Preview |
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Written by Mavke
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Wednesday, 17 November 2004 |
HardOCP has put up a preview on the nVidia GeForce 6600GT AGP. What has become quite possibly the best mainstream video card is now catering to an even wider audience, and thank goodness for that. nVidia announced the new GeForce 6600 series of video cards back in mid August.
 GeForce 6600GT AGP Preview
To sum up the technical specifications, the 6600GT is an 8 pipeline/3 vertex unit video card clocked at a very high 500MHz GPU frequency using GDDR3 memory on a 128-bit memory bus clocked at 500MHz (1GHz DDR). The vanilla 6600 also has 8 pixel pipelines and 3 vertex units, but it has a frequency reduced GPU core speed of 300MHz and uses DDR1 memory clocked at the manufacturer's discretion.
Overall the GeForce 6600GT AGP is very much like its 6600GT PCI-Express brother as you might expect. The GeForce 6600GT AGP and PCI-Express video cards are the fastest midrange cards you can buy. They offer all the latest features such as Shader Model 3.0 and OpenEXR support with their FP16 frame buffer, and they accelerate the latest games faster than the high-end video cards of the previous generations. Now that there is an AGP version of the GeForce 6600GT, more people can upgrade their video card without breaking the bank and while sticking with the gaming-dominant Athlon series processor. The GeForce 6600GT AGP sells for between a suggested $199-$249 and is available today, which shows that the 6600GT AGP is very far from being a paper launched product.
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