NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache 64-TC/256MB Graphics Card

Overview

The NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6500, 6200, 6150* and 6100* GPUs feature a revolutionary design that delivers best-in-class performance on today’s hottest games and applications. The only GPUs in their class to support Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, these GPUs power the latest effects without compromising performance. Further, these GPUs include NVIDIA® PureVideo™ to deliver crisp, vibrant video to the PC.

Features

CineFX 3.0 Shading Architecture

• Vertex Shaders
  • Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Vertex Shader 3.0
  • Displacement mapping
  • Geometry instancing
  • Infinite length vertex programs
• Pixel Shaders
  • Support for DirectX 9.0 Pixel Shader 3.0
  • Full pixel branching support
  • Support for Multiple Render Targets (MRTs)
  • Infinite length pixel programs
• Next-Generation Texture Engine
  • Up to 16 textures per rendering pass
  • Support for 16-bit floating point format and 32-bit floating point format
  • Support for non-power of two textures
  • Support for sRGB texture format for gamma textures
  • DirectX and S3TC texture compression
  • Full 128-bit studio-quality floating point precision through the entire rendering pipeline with native hardware support for 32bpp, 64bpp, and 128bpp rendering modes

64-Bit Texture Filtering and Blending

• Full floating point support throughout entire pipeline
• Floating point filtering improves the quality of images in motion
• Floating point texturing drives new levels of clarity and image detail
• Floating point frame buffer blending gives detail to special effects like motion blur and explosions

Intellisample 3.0 Technology

• Advanced 16x anisotropic filtering
• Blistering-fast antialiasing and compression performance
• New rotated-grid antialiasing removes jagged edges for incredible edge quality
• Support for advanced lossless compression algorithms for color, texture, and z-data at even higher resolutions and frame rates
• Fast z-clear
• High-resolution compression technology (HCT) increases performance at higher resolutions through advances in compression technology

UltraShadow II Technology

• Designed to enhance the performance of shadow-intensive games, like id Software’s Doom 3

TurboCache Technology

• Shares the capacity and bandwidth of dedicated video memory and dynamically available system memory for optimal system performance.

PureVideo Technology

• Adaptable programmable video processor
• MPEG video encode and decode
• High-definition MPEG-2 hardware acceleration
• High-quality video scaling and filtering
• DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up to 1920x1080i resolutions
• Dual integrated 400 MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048 × 1536 at 85Hz
• Display gamma correction
• Microsoft® Video Mixing Renderer (VMR) supports multiple video windows with full video quality and features in each window

Advanced Display Functionality

• Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for display resolutions up to and including 2048×1536 at 85hz
• Dual DVO ports for interfacing to external TMDS transmitters and external TV encoders
• Full NVIDIA® nView™ multi-display technology capability

Advanced Engineering

• Designed for PCI Express x16
• Support for AGP 8X including Fast Writes and sideband addressing
• Designed for high-speed GDDR3 memory
• Advanced thermal management and thermal monitoring

NVIDIA® Digital Vibrance Control™ (DVC) 3.0

• DVC color controls
• DVC image sharpening controls

Operating Systems

• Windows XP
• Windows ME
• Windows 2000
• Windows 9X
• Macintosh OS, including OS X
• Linux

API Support

• Complete DirectX support, including the latest version of Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0
• Full OpenGL support, including OpenGL 2.0

GeForce 6 Series GPUs Features Comparison:

Feature	GeForce 6800 Models	GeForce 6600 Models	GeForce 6200 Models	GeForce 6200 w/Turbocache
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0	SM 3.0	SM 3.0	SM 3.0	SM 3.0
Graphics Bus Technology	AGP 8X/PCI Express	AGP 8X/PCI Express	AGP 8X/PCI Express	PCI Express
NVIDIA® Intellisample™ Technology	3.0	3.0	3.01	3.01
NVIDIA® SLI™ Technology	X2	X2	n/a	n/a
NVIDIA® PureVideo™ Technology	X3	X3	X3	X3
NVIDIA® TurboCache™ Technology	n/a	n/a	n/a	X4
64-bit Texture Filtering and Bending	X	X	n/a	n/a
Effective Memory Interface	256-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128/64-bit
Memory	GDDR35 and DDR	GDDR35 and DDR	DDR	DDR
Process	0.13 micron	0.11 micron	0.11 micron	0.11 micron
RAMDACs	400 MHz	400 MHz	400 MHz	400 MHz

1. GeForce 6200 models do not include compression technology.
2. NVIDIA SLI: Available on SLI-certified versions of GeForce 6800 Ultra, 6800 GT, 6800 GS, 6800, 6800 XT, 6800 LE, 6600 GT, 6600, and 6600 LE PCI Express GPUs only.
3. Features may vary by product.  Some features may require additional software.
4. Available on select GeForce 6200 models only.
5. GDDR3 – GeForce 6800 Ultra, 6800 GT, 6800 GS, and 6600 GT only.

NVIDIA Introduces New GeForce 6200 with TurboCache

NVIDIA TurboCache Technology Redefines PC Graphics Performance at Value Price Points

SANTA CLARA, CA—DECEMBER 15, 2004—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today introduced the NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6200 graphics processing unit (GPU) with TurboCache™ technology.

NVIDIA TurboCache is a new, patented hardware and software technology, which allows a GPU to render directly to system memory, instead of using local memory on the graphics card. NVIDIA TurboCache technology lowers on-board memory requirements, enabling system builders to deliver PCs with more feature-rich GPUs and offer their customers better graphics performance and advanced capabilities previously unattainable at value prices.

“Customers in the value segment previously have had to settle for technology that was one generation behind the cutting edge, high-end GPUs,” said Ujesh Desai, general manger of desktop graphics for NVIDIA. “For the first time ever, NVIDIA TurboCache will deliver the award-winning feature set found on current-generation high-end GPUs to the value segment of the PC market.”

NVIDIA has re-architected the 3D graphics pipeline for the GeForce 6200 GPU with TurboCache to allow direct rendering from the GPU to system memory by leveraging the bi-directional PCI Express bandwidth. The TurboCache Manager dynamically allocates memory for maximum system performance while intelligent software algorithms maximize application performance.

The GeForce 6200 GPUs with TurboCache offer best-in-class performance in the value segment¹ by taking the GeForce 6 Series graphics architecture, which has been described as the most advanced in the world, top-to-bottom in the NVIDIA product line-up. GeForce 6200 GPUs with TurboCache are the only graphics processors in the value segment that:

• Support Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, which is being used to develop ultra-realistic, next-generation DirectX 9.0 games
• Feature NVIDIA PureVideo™ technology, a combination of hardware and software that brings consumer electronics-quality video to the PC
• Are backed by the NVIDIA ForceWare™ software suite and NVIDIA Unified Driver Architecture (UDA), ensuring industry-renowned compatibility and reliability for a great user experience

GeForce 6200 GPUs with TurboCache are shipping now and graphics cards are anticipated to be available from leading add-in card manufacturers and in systems from leading PC OEMs in January 2005. For additional details and a list of partners, please visit http://www.nvidia.com.