Unlocking the GeForce 6800
Unlocking the GeForce 6800: "As we mentioned in our EVGA e-GeForce 6800 review, just recently NVIDIA and their board partners have quietly reduced board prices on their high-end GeForce 6800 products. Whereas just a few months ago NVIDIA’s best mainstream offering at the crucial $200 price point was the 8-pipeline GeForce 6600 GT, today street prices on NVIDIA’s more potent GeForce 6800 have hit the $200 mark.

This has huge ramifications for enthusiasts looking to get the most bang for their buck because the GeForce 6800 boasts a number of features that make it more powerful than the GeForce 6600 GT.

For starters, the GeForce 6800 sports a 12-pixel pipeline architecture, with five vertex engines pumping up to 406 million triangles/second (3.9 Gigatexels/sec fill rate). The GeForce 6600 GT features fewer pixel and vertex pipes, but attempts to make up for this by running at much higher clocks, 500MHz on the 6600 GT versus 325MHz on the GeForce 6800."
- posted by Gp @ 12:29 PM