Galaxy GeForce 6600 review - Page 1

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/25/2004 03:31 PM [ ] 0 comment(s)

Name: Galaxy 6600 256 MB
Description: NVIDIA 6600 8 pixel pipeline based graphics card
Info: Galaxy Technology
Price: 160 EUR

Strong, that's the only word to describe NVIDIA's GeForce Series 6 line of graphics processors. They are dominating and slowly saturating the market with a product in every price class. Basically a graphics card for any budget. Today's test therefore has to be another GeForce Series 6 product. We'll bring you a review on the regular GeForce 6600, not the GT that we recently reviewed. No, this is the cheaper standard 6600. Today we will be testing the PCI-Express model and this little puppy that is running at a 325 MHz core with 550 MHz DDR 128-bit memory.

So what it the biggest difference between the 6600 and the 6600 GT you ask ? Two general features .. with slower performance being first and the missing capability of SLI (Scan Line Interleave). Basically you take two graphics cards, each card renders half of the image scan lines, which resulted in double the performance of a single board. A very nice feature for the GT.

The card tested today will become available in 128 and 256 MB configurations, you'll likely go for the 256 MB version and it's also the version we'll test today. Let's have a look at NVIDIA's GeForce Series 6 product line with the most important retail cards:

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	500MHz	1000MHz
GeForce 6600	8	3	128-bit	GDDR/128MB	300MHz	275(550)
GeForce 6200	4	3	64/128-bit	GDDR/128MB/256MB	300MHz	275(550)

I started this article by stating "a product for any budget." As you can see from the table above, NVIDIA is rather happy with the Series 6 graphics processor, they announced Series 6 in April and look what is saturating the retail and OEM market already. Quite amazing.

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