6600GT or the 6800

[zmaster]

Simple question and Im sure its been asked many times before. So could you please answer me. Its mostly for a 32bit system with a Barton@3.2Ghz and 1gig ram. I wouldnt want a bottleneck so lets hear your recommendations.

Thanx thou

 

[Amplifier]

You should get the 6800gt.

 

[Cheesetogo]

THe 66600gt and 6800 are almost identicle in performance, so get whatever's cheaper.

 

[Emultra]

Originally posted by: Cheesetogo
66600gt

Secret model? 🙂

 

[2Xtreme21]

Are you planning on playing with AA / AF on and at higher resolutions? If so, the 6800 tends to pull ahead from the 6600gt, especially with the pipes unlocked.

 

[ddogg]

dude just look up threads with 6600GT and 6800NUs....check the anandtech review to see the performance of the cards and make ur own judgement on whether the extra money is worth!!!

 

[Washoe]

You'll want to check out this new article from FiringSquad:

Unlocking the GeForce 6800

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.

The real advantage the GeForce 6800 enjoys over the GeForce 6600 GT however is in its memory subsystem.

The GeForce 6800 features a 256-bit memory interface, with four 64-bit memory controllers paired to either 128MB or 256MB of DDR memory running at 350MHz (700MHz effective). This gives the GeForce 6800 up to 22.4GB/sec of peak memory bandwidth, 6.4GB/sec more than GeForce 6600 GT. As a result, the GeForce 6800 really shines against the GeForce 6600 GT at high screen resolutions with anti-aliasing turned on. You saw this a few weeks ago in our EVGA review with 4xAA/8xAF. In multiple cases at resolutions of 1024x768 (and up) the GeForce 6800 card was running 20% faster or more.

 

[ddogg]

ya getting the 6800 will give u the option to unlock it to 16 pipes which would then beat the 6600GT quite easily