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NVIDIA Gives Details On New GeForce 6

Posted by Hemos on from the power-up dept.

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."

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  1. Thank you! by merlin_jim · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?

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  2. Does it ever stop? by xIcemanx · · Score: 5, Interesting

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

  3. Only $200? by Gamefreak99 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Only $200?

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

  4. $199 by Distinguished+Hero · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

    So where did $199 come from?

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  5. Correct me if I'm wrong... by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...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?

  6. 6600 or 6800LE? by Erwos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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

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