Leadtek WinFast A400 TDH (GeForce 6800)

Introduction

Being the older brother in my family, I have always seemed to pick on my little brother, from as far back as I can remember.  I had always thought that being the little brother probably sucked while growing up.  But Leadtek has changed my mind about that.  The Winfast A400 TDH, their name for the GeForce 6800, makes being the little brother not so bad after all.

There are a few differences that separate the vanilla 6800 from its older brothers the GT and Ultra.  For one, the 6800 only has a 12-pipe GPU architecture, compared to 16 in the GT and Ultra.  The 6800 also sports only 128MB of DDR RAM, opposed to the 256MB of DDR3 its older brothers have.

With a core speed of 325Mhz and an effective RAM clock of 700Mhz, the A400 is well on its way to running the latest games at the resolutions and frame rates you crave.  Read ahead to see how Leadtek's A400 TDH fares against last generations technology.

Features and Specs

Features

• 3 Air-Surround Cooling System
• TV-out Support
• Full-version Game Bundle(Prince of Persia & Splinter Cell)
• Video-editing software bundle(DVD Player, WinFox II, Cult 3D)
• Full Accessories pack
• 1st to support Shader Model 3.0 - a must have function for future game development
• Breakthrough 64-bit Blending & Filtering - a must have for ultra-realistic animation creation
• Superscalar 12-Pipe GPU Architecture
• CineFX 3.0 Engine
• UltraShadow II Technology
• Intellisample 3.0 Technology
• Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
• 0.13 Micron Process Technology

Specs

• NVIDIA GPU:  6800
• Form Factor:  1-slot
• Clock:  325Mhz Core/700Mhz Memory
• Memory:  128MB DDR1
• Output:  DVI, VGA, TV-Out
• Data Bandwidth:  256-bit
• Superscalar GPU Architecture:  12
• Graphics Core: 256-bit
• Memory Bandwidth:  22.4GB/sec
• Fill Rate:  3.9 billion texels/sec
• Vertices per Second:  406 million
• Memory Data Rate:  700Mhz
• Pixels per Clock (peak):  12