What's NVIDIA's GeForce 6610 XL?

[Fenuxx]

I've seen in NVIDIA's card support list a mysterious GeForce 6610 XL. What the hell is this card? A Google search yielded virtually nothing, except that it is an OEM card. I'm looking for parts for a beater box, and just for the hell of it, would like to know what this card is, specifically, what its clock speeds are, etc. Thanks for the help in advance.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

1st ive heard mate, if i hear more ill let you know

 

[christopherzombie]

It sounds like a planned upgrade to the 6600.

 

[Fenuxx]

Well, from what I read, its just an OEM card.

 

[Fenuxx]

However, seeing as how nobody has it, those reports could be wrong. Could be interesting to see what it actually is.

 

[mwmorph]

6610 is a HIGHLY OC'ed 6600
MSI sells one. it is a 6600 with a 400mhz coore/800mhz memory

they name theirs
MSI NX6600 VTD128 Diamond(AGP).
MSI NX6600 VTD128E Diamond(PCI-E)
identical to the 6600gt down to the memory chips(i believe they are 2.0ns) it costs $165 agp. not sure about pci-e.

 

[xtknight]

From a German forum where somebody actually has the chip, and ran Everest:
http://www.wintotal-forum.de/index.php/topic,75537.0.html

NVIDIA_NV43.DEV_0140.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6600 WP"
NVIDIA_NV43.DEV_0141.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6600"
NVIDIA_NV43.DEV_0145.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL"

This is MSI's NX6600-VTD128E card (thanks mwmorph), which is actually sold as a GeForce 6600. Since the Device ID is 0145, that means the card is recognized by the driver as a "NVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL", as seen in the following Everest results.

Graphics processor characteristics:
GPU: nVIDIA GeForce 6610 XL (MSI)
GPU code name: NV43
Device ID: 10DE/0145
Transistors: 143 million
Process: 0.11u
Bus: PCI express x16
Memory capacity: 128 MB
GPU clock: 411 MHz
RAMDAC clock: 400 MHz
Pixel pipelines: 8
Texture units (TMU)/pipeline: 1
Vertex Shaders: 3 (v3.0)
Pixel Shaders: 1 (v3.0)
DirectX hardware support: DirectX v9.0c
Pixel Fillrate: 3288 MPixel/s
Texel Fillrate: 3288 MTexel/s

Memory bus characteristics:
Type of bus: DDR
Bus width: 128-bit
Actual clock: 405 MHz (DDR)
Effective clock: 810 MHz
Bandwidth: 12960 MB/s

It looks like the 6610 uses the same chip as the 6600, meaning that it's a higher-clocked chip than that of the 6600's.

Official specs from MSI:

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/vga/vga/pro_vga_detail.php?UID=635

Memory Clock: 800MHz
128-bit memory Bandwidth
128MB DDR3
8M x32-2ns

It lacks SLI support, because there are no "golden fingers" in the photo. It has the same amount of PureVideo support as the 6600/6600GT (everything). Look here for some benchmarks of the GeForce 6610 XL (MSI 6600 Diamond). Oops, they downclocked it to a vanilla 6600, at least in some of the benchmarks.

http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD05NDk=

For 6610 XL (400/800 MHz) results, go here:

http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/re...JsX3Jldmlld19JRD05NDkmdXJsX3BhZ2U9MTE=

 

[hans030390]

wow thats pretty good. too bad my card is better

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: mwmorph
6610 is a HIGHLY OC'ed 6600
MSI sells one. it is a 6600 with a 400mhz coore/800mhz memory

they name theirs
MSI NX6600 VTD128 Diamond(AGP).
MSI NX6600 VTD128E Diamond(PCI-E)
identical to the 6600gt down to the memory chips(i believe they are 2.0ns) it costs $165 agp. not sure about pci-e.

That would mean it comes with faster memory. There is no way the memory on the current 6600's can reach 800MHz. Not at 3.6ns anyways. Wonder what they put on the 6610.. Maybe 2.8ns or faster.

 

[mwmorph]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: mwmorph
6610 is a HIGHLY OC'ed 6600
MSI sells one. it is a 6600 with a 400mhz coore/800mhz memory

they name theirs
MSI NX6600 VTD128 Diamond(AGP).
MSI NX6600 VTD128E Diamond(PCI-E)
identical to the 6600gt down to the memory chips(i believe they are 2.0ns) it costs $165 agp. not sure about pci-e.

That would mean it comes with faster memory. There is no way the memory on the current 6600's can reach 800MHz. Not at 3.6ns anyways. Wonder what they put on the 6610.. Maybe 2.8ns or faster.

they are 2.0ns like i said...

 

[thegimp03]

Hmm...interesting.

 

[Fenuxx]

Well, that would make it a good card for my beater box anyway. If it does come with 2.0ns RAM, then the 6610 could probably be OCed to 6600GT levels easily. Thats a very good thing indeed.

 

[chrisralston]

Did you get this card? I am looking at buying it for a new machine basically for it's VIVO capabilities.