Asus V6600 SDRAM provided by Data Privat

Originally a manufacturer of quality motherboards, ASUS made the transition into the video card market with a card that almost revolutionized an industry: the TNT based V3400. It was the first time that a Taiwanese company successfully spread from spread from one very skilled area of design, motherboards, to another, video cards and was able to sell these cards at the larger computer stores and maintain product quality. This formula spelled big success for ASUS, which could now appeal to not only system makers but also to hard core gamers.

ASUS has continued this tradition of high quality of card manufacturing as can be seen in their GeForce based V6600 SDRAM (internally named the V6600 TF), a board that contains the quality that we at the lab have come to expect from ASUS.

Specifications, courtesy of ASUS:

• Quad Engine Architecture
  Four Independent Pipelined Engines
  15M triangles/second
  Sustained DMA, transform/clip/light, setup, and render rate
  >70% of the chip active at all times
  Up to 6 triangles "in flight" at a time (typically 1-3)
  Very low latency between engines
• QuadPipe Rendering
  4 pixels per clock
  480M pixels/second fill rate
  32 texture samples per clock
  Full-speed 8-sample filtering
• Superior 2D Performance
  256-bit 2D rendering pipeline
  4 pixels per clock on all scaled and indexed image operations
  1 GB/s CPU-to-GPU memory via AGP 4X with Fast Writes
• AGP 4X with Fast Write
  Enables CPU to send data directly to GPU
  System memory bus free to perform other functions
  Balanced design increases overall system performance
• High Quality Video Playback: DVD Acceleration
  Full frame rate DVD to 1080i resolution
  Full precision subpixel accuracy to 1/16 pixel
• High Quality Video Playback: Video Overlay
  5 horizontal, 3 vertical taps
  8:1 up/down scaling
  Independent hue, saturation, and brightness controls in hardware
• Optimized for the latest DirectX 7 and OpenGL features
  Transform and lighting (T&L)
  Cube environment mapping
  Vertex blending
  Protective textures
  Texture compression