Tech Specs

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 2048x1536 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