Product: GeForce 6800 GT 256 MB GDDR3
Series: N68T256D
More info: Gigabyte
MSRP: 399 USD
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Dear Guru's, Gigabyte core business, among many other products, is making graphics cards, mainboards for Intel and AMD based platforms, network product and well... what don't they make these days? They have been doing this for quite a while now with a huge amount of success.
The flavor of today's review is the GeForce 6800 and it's labeled GT. The new Series 6, under label N68T256D, that of course is based on the heavily popular GeForce 6800 GT videocard with 256 MB GDDR3 memory. Gigabyte is one of my personal favorite manufacturers. They have a strong and solid research and development team and produce high quality products at an affordable price. Besides that, most of their videocards always have had a good reputation in terms of tweaking.
The GT is the same product as the 6800 Ultra, yet clocked 50 Mhz slower and has slightly less memory bandwidth. That's the biggest difference... oh and hey... 100 USD bucks cheaper! Gosh I almost forgot that didn't I? The Geforce 6800 GT sounds like a rally car and is priced exactly the same as the Radeon X800 Pro. That product has 4 pipes less (12 pixel pipelines). Making the GT superior on paper performance and feature wise.
When we set aside that fact, then I can say from personal experience with many of these cards that it's performing like an unleashed beast and at a nice price. Next to that it produces less heat and has just one Molex connector compared to the Ultra version. Exciting times in the graphics industry you ask? Absolutely.
NVIDIA's new lineup of graphics cards within Series 6 is rapidly expanding though; ever since they figured out they had a special graphics core in their hands. Right now we can see several new products.
Among them are the GeForce 6800 LE and the new mid-end GeForce 6600 series. Basically the LE is the low cost version in the high-end 6800 series, yet crippled with only 8 pixel pipelines and a 320/650 MHz frequencies for core/memory. The LE is an OEM product and already shipping, not likely to be found in retail.
To get a better overview of the current NVIDIA GeForce 6x00 generation let's place the 6x00 products in a little overview:
|
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Product Lineup Specifications |
|
Product Name |
# pixel processors |
# vertex processors |
Bus width |
Memory Type/Amount |
GPU Speed |
RAM Speed |
|
GeForce 6800 Ultra |
16 |
6 |
256-bit |
GDDR3/256MB |
400MHz |
1100MHz |
|
GeForce 6800 GT |
16 |
6 |
256-bit |
GDDR3/256MB |
350MHz |
1000MHz |
|
GeForce 6800 |
12 |
5 |
256-bit |
GDDR/128MB |
325MHz |
700MHz |
|
GeForce 6800 LE* |
8 |
4 |
256-bit |
GDDR/128MB |
320MHz |
700MHz |
| GeForce 6600 GT |
8 |
3 |
128-bit |
GDDR3/128/256MB |
500 |
1000MHz |
| GeForce 6600 |
8 |
3 |
128-bit |
GDDR/128MB |
300 |
TBD |
| GeForce 6610 XL* |
8 |
3 |
128-bit |
? |
? |
? |
Suffice to say that you can see from the table above, NVIDIA is rather happy with the Series 6 graphics processor, they announced it back in April and look what is saturating the retail and OEM market already.
Gigabyte GeForce 6800 GT 256 MB GDDR3 (N68T256D)
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