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NVIDIA Gives Details On New GeForce 6

Posted by Hemos on Monday August 9, 2004 @01:28AM 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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Re:What bothers me by be-fan · 2004-08-09 02:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

Correction: D3D is the de facto standard for "video game" graphics. Sheer volume isn't evrything --- $17,000 buys you a whole lot of copies of Quake! When Maya and XSI choose D3D as their primary API, then we can declare it the de facto standard.

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Re:Two cards == 2x performance by solive1 · 2004-08-09 05:51 · Score: 0, Redundant

Voodoo II... how I miss that card. Those were the days... back before you had to upgrade your graphics card every 4 months. Sometimes I wish 3dfx was still around. But, alas, nVidia killed them off. Back in the day, most games were coded to take advantage of 3dfx hardware, and you didn't have to worry about whether the design group was an nVidia or ATI fan. Things were simpler then, and I enjoyed it.