GeForce 6800 GS 256 MB - Page 1

You my friends .. it was June the 22nd in 2004 when we first took a peek at NVIDIA's new born, the GeForce 6800 GT. It offered staggering performance and I was lie "wow" the rumors where true. We are now a good year away from that first release and a couple of things have changed in that time-frame. Most importantly we noticed a massive shift from the AGP platform towards PCI-Express. Secondly in that timeframe prices came down. You can now pickup a 6800 GT for 325 USD or 275 EUR these days. Fact is this product is still offering staggering performance for a good price. That price however is still a little too high to be able to compete with for example some of ATI's up and coming X1K products and there is a little gap in the market between the plain GeForce 6800 and the GeForce 6800 GT. SO NVIDIA figured .. hey .. let's fill 'er up !

Tagged with a sales price of roughly 250 EUR - 275 USD for the 256 MB models there now is another product available in that very broad range of Series 6 product from NVIDIA. Today's product is the GeForce 6800 GS, feature wise 100% similar to any GeForce 6800 product yet performance and pricing wise it sits between the 6800 and 6800 GT.

The GeForce 6800 GS leans more towards the plain 6800 over the 6800 GT though, as the product has a similar amount of pixel-pipelines(12) and also is equipped with 5 vertex processors. So where is that extra performance coming from you are asking ? Well there are two explanations for it. Focus on the chart below where I sited the more important specs.