NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE PCie Graphics Card

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Overview
Manufacturer
NVIDIA
Original Series
GeForce 6
Release Date
January 1st, 2005
Model
NVIDIA P229 SKU 007
Graphics Processing Unit
GPU Model
NV43
Architecture
NV40
Fabrication Process
110 nm
Die Size
150 mm2
Transistors Count
146M
Transistors Density
973.3K TRAN/mm2
Pixel Pipelines
4
Vertex Pipelines
2
TMUs
4
ROPs
4
Clocks
Base Clock
350 MHz
Boost Clock
TBC MHz
Memory Clock
350 MHz
Effective Memory Clock
700 Mbps
Memory Configuration
Memory Size
128 MB
Memory Type
GDDR3
Memory Bus Width
128-bit
Memory Bandwidth
11.2 GB/s

Physical
Interface
PCI-Express 1.0 x16
Height
1-slot
Power Connectors
1× molex
Multi-GPU Support
2-way
Display Outputs
DVI-I DualLink
1 ×
VGA
1 ×
S-Video
1 ×
API Support
DirectX
9.0c
Vulkan
-
OpenGL
2.1
OpenCL
-

Performance
Pixel Fillrate
1.4 GPixels/s
Texture Fillrate
1.4 GTexel/s




 ModelCoresBoost ClockMemory ClockMemory Config.
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT PCie - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Personal Cinema - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS PCIe - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT PCIe - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL - -
 
1.1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra AGP - -
 
1.1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra PCIe - -
 
1.1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT DDL - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS AGP - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT AGP - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT PCIe - -
 
1 Gbps
 
256 MB GD3 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 PCIe - -
 
700 Mbps
 
256 MB D1 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Personal Cinema - -
 
700 Mbps
 
256 MB D1 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 XT AGP - -
 
700 Mbps
 
256 MB D1 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP - -
 
950 Mbps
 
128 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6500 - -
 
666 Mbps
 
128 MB D2 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE PCie - -
 
700 Mbps
 
128 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 AGP - -
 
700 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE PCIe - -
 
600 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6800 LE AGP - -
 
700 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 256b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6200 PCIe - -
 
550 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 AGP - -
 
500 Mbps
 
128 MB D2 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE AGP - -
 
400 Mbps
 
128 MB D2 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE PCie - -
 
400 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 PCie - -
 
500 Mbps
 
128 MB D2 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6200 AGP - -
 
532 Mbps
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache 64-TC/256MB - -
 
700 Mbps
 
64 MB D1 64b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE - -
 
532 Mbps
 
64 MB D1 32b
 ModelCoresBoost ClockMemory ClockMemory Config.
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NVIDIA NVS 440 x1 - -
 
500 MB/s
 
512 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT PCie - -
 
1 GB/s
 
256 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT Personal Cinema - -
 
1 GB/s
 
256 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 Ultra - -
 
700 MB/s
 
256 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT AGP - -
 
950 MB/s
 
128 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce Go 6600 - -
 
600 MB/s
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 - -
 
800 MB/s
 
128 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 VE PCie - -
 
700 MB/s
 
128 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6200 PCIe - -
 
550 MB/s
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 AGP - -
 
500 MB/s
 
128 MB D2 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE AGP - -
 
400 MB/s
 
128 MB D2 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 LE PCie - -
 
400 MB/s
 
128 MB D1 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6600 PCie - -
 
500 MB/s
 
128 MB D2 128b
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NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 - -
 
450 MB/s
 
128 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA NVS 440 x16 - -
 
500 MB/s
 
128 MB GD3 128b
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NVIDIA GeForce 6200 LE - -
 
532 MB/s
 
64 MB D1 32b

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Overview

Supercharge your gaming with the power of an NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GPU. The NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6600 GPUs deliver best-in-class performance and advanced visual effects for next-generation games. The only GPU in its class with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and with support for PCI Express, the GeForce 6600 delivers ultra-realistic effects, unmatched features, and rock-solid stability so you can play your game the way it’s meant to be played. Available models (the following models are available in both PCI Express and AGP 8X versions): GeForce 6600 GT, GeForce 6600 and GeForce 6600 LE.

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:

FeatureGeForce 6800
Models
GeForce 6600
Models
GeForce 6200
Models
GeForce 6200
w/Turbocache
Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0SM 3.0SM 3.0SM 3.0SM 3.0
Graphics Bus TechnologyAGP 8X/PCI ExpressAGP 8X/PCI ExpressAGP 8X/PCI ExpressPCI Express
NVIDIA® Intellisample™ Technology3.03.03.013.01
NVIDIA® SLI™ TechnologyX2X2n/an/a
NVIDIA® PureVideo™ TechnologyX3X3X3X3
NVIDIA® TurboCache™ Technologyn/an/an/aX4
64-bit Texture Filtering and BendingXXn/an/a
Effective Memory Interface256-bit128-bit128-bit128/64-bit
MemoryGDDR35 and DDRGDDR35 and DDRDDRDDR
Process0.13 micron0.11 micron0.11 micron0.11 micron
RAMDACs400 MHz400 MHz400 MHz400 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 GeForce 6600 Available Now!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SANTA CLARA, CA—SEPTEMBER 23, 2004—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today announced that add-in boards based on NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6600 graphics processing units (GPUs) are available immediately at www.gameve.com and www.buyxtremegear.com/sparkle.html

As an extension of the award-winning GeForce 6 Series, GeForce 6600 graphics processors are the first mainstream GPUs to support Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, and a superscalar architecture for unprecedented performance in its class. GeForce 6600 GPUs also feature a dedicated on-chip video processor that brings prosumer-quality video playback to the personal computer. In addition, the GeForce 6600 GT brings the innovative NVIDIA SLI™ multi-GPU technology to the mainstream market, which could enable millions of users to experience the power of two GPUs in their system.

The newest additions to the GeForce 6 Series of GPUs include:

The GeForce 6600 GT—The NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT has an eight pipe superscalar design, supports 128MB of GDDR3 graphics memory, includes NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU technology, and has a suggested street price of $199.
The GeForce 6600—The GeForce 6600 GPU also has an eight pipe superscalar design and supports 128MB of DDR graphics memory.