NVIDIA Gives Details On New GeForce 6

An anonymous reader writes "According to Firingsquad, NVIDIA will be announcing a new GeForce 6 card for the mainstream market at Quakecon this week. Like GeForce 6800, this new card will support shader model 3.0 and SLI (on PCI Express cards), so you can connect two $199 cards together for double the performance. NVIDIA will also be producing AGP versions of this card as well."

Comments

Thank you!

[merlin_jim]

SLI was such an obvious way to make graphics rendering parallelized! I'm glad they're bringing it back... I've been missing it.

Does anyone have any idea how many PCI Express ports this uses? It's my understanding that you have a total of 20 and most motherboards are allocating 16x to the video... will this card require 8x? Or do you need a special motherboard for this?

Anyone know?

Does it ever stop?

[xIcemanx]

Is there a point where graphics cards get so advanced that humans can't even tell the difference anymore? Or is that virtual reality?

Only $200?

[Gamefreak99]

Only $200?

This should be interesting to see and good for competition to say the least.

$199

[Distinguished Hero]

From the article:
Price points and product names weren't discussed

So where did $199 come from?

Correct me if I'm wrong...

[TheSHAD0W]

...But does this mean you have to load the same texture data into both cards in order to obtain this parallel processing? Isn't that rather inefficient?

Re:Real DirectX 9

[molarmass192]

Then go petition MS to create and distribute cards that supports their gd standard in hardware. I don't use Windows and have no interest in paying a fee to MS for having DX9 embedded into a card when I'll never be able to use it. If MS wants to pay for it and it's a zero cost addition for nVIDIA and it doesn't adversely affect OpenGL performance, then it would be inconsequential to me if it were included or not. Btw, what companies are in the consortium that controls the DirectX industry standard?

6600 or 6800LE?

[Erwos]

What's weird is that nVidia already _does_ have a $200 variant of Geforce6 - the Geforce 6800LE. It's essentially a lower-clocked (GPU and RAM) 6800 with only 8 pipes (so, half of what the 6800GT/U has). One of the hardware sites did a review of it (t-break?), and it performed pretty nicely - almost always beat the 5950. It's supposedly only for OEMs, but that's never stopped the online vendors from selling a card.

If they are indeed talking about a 6600, it's going to need to go under $170 to have any sales value whatsoever. SLI is nice and everything, but most people simply don't have PCIe mobos to take advantage of it, so it's going to be a non-issue for the next year and a half.

Still, it'll be nice to see nVidia actually try to deliver a better price/performance ratio than ATI for once.

-Erwos

Same question for monitors

[wikdwarlock]

In my Phys III class ages ago, we did the calculation for the resolvable limit for the human eye given a certain distance from 2 points. I can't recall the formula, but it seems that at some point in the near future a 8000 x 6000 screen will look exactly like a 80,000 x 60,000 screen unless your 2 cm away from it.