Gigabyte 6600 256 Mb Turbo Force Video Card review

Videocards/VGA Reviews by piotke @ 2005-08-30

With the introduction of PCI express only a few high end VGA cards were available, now that we have low/mid range it?s time to see how they stack up to their big brothers. The 6600GT is a mid-range card, let?s find out if it is worth the asking price. Be prepared, because here comes the Gigabyte 6600 256 Mb Turbo Force !

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Test setup & 3D mark

Test setup & Methodology :


Piotke's Test Setup
CPUAMD Athlon 64 3000+ "Venice"
MainboardAsus A8N SLI
Memory2*512 Mb DDR600 Adata
VGA
  • Asus 6600 GT 128Mb
  • Asus X800XT 256 Mb
  • Gigabyte 6600 256 Mb


    • The CPU was running at ~2.6 Ghz (9*290 Mhz, with the memory in 1:1 (synchronous)) I had some power under the hood. I installed windows two times; once for the NVIDIA based VGA cards, and once for the ATI card.

    The installed software was:
  • Windows XP Professional
  • Service pack 2
  • Direct X 9.0c
  • nForce4 NVIDIA Drivers, version 6.66
  • ATI Catalyst Drivers, version 5.8 / NVIDIA VGA drivers, version 77.77

    The applications I used to test were:
  • 3D mark 05
  • 3D mark 03
  • 3D mark 01 Se Pro
  • UT 2004
  • Call Of Duty

    If it was possible, I ran tests in both 1024*768 and 1280*1024 resolution. This was made easy thanks to a very handy tool: benchemall.

    We have a mix of games and syntehectic tests for you, let’s start with the first one, 3D Mark 2005.

    3D mark 2005

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    The first charts and I have almost a hit. The 6600 GT performs ~1,5 times as fast as the vanilla 6600. This is very close to the price difference. The X800XT doest the job "only" 2,5 times as fast.



    3D mark 2003

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    In this case the 6600 GT is also 1.5 times faster. The X800XT shows its power in higher resolutions where it's 2,2 times as fast. When using a 1024*768 resolution, it's almost exactly double the performance.

    And finally the oldest version of 3DMark that is still supported by Futuremark



    3D mark 2001 Se

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    You can directly see that it's a rather old benchmark. Almost none of the newer rendering technologies is used, this causes the performance differences to be only factor 1,3 and 1,6.

    Time for the games ->
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