Albatron 6600GT (single and SLI) Review

Introduction

Specifications

• CineFX 3.0 Engine
  Powers the next generation of cinematic realism. Full support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 enables stunning and complex special effects. Next-generation shader architecture delivers faster and smoother gameplay.
• On-Chip Video Processor
  Delivers unmatched video performance, features, and quality.
• UltraShadow II Technology
  Enhances the performance of bleeding-edge games, like id Software’s Doom III, that feature complex scenes with multiple light sources and objects. 2nd-generation technology delivers more than 4x the shadow processing power over the previous generation.
• Intellisample 3.0 Technology
  The industry’s fastest antialiasing delivers ultra-realistic visuals, with no jagged edges, at lightning-fast speeds. Visual quality is taken to new heights through a new rotated grid sampling pattern.
• nView Multi-Display Technology
  The nView hardware and software technology combination delivers maximum flexibility for multi-display options, and provides unprecedented end-user control of the desktop experience. NVIDIA GPUs are enabled to support multi-displays, but graphics cards vary. Please verify multi-display support in the graphics card before purchasing
• NVIDIA SLI Multi-GPU Ready
  Dramatically scales performance by allowing two graphics cards to be run in parallel
• High-Speed GDDR3 Memory Interface
  Support for the world’s fastest GDDR3 memory delivers fluid frame rates for even the most advanced games and applications
• Full MPEG Support
  Delivers a stunning video experience through encoding and decoding of analog and digital content.
• OpenGL 1.5 Optimizations and Support
  Ensures the best performance and application compatibility for all OpenGL applications
• Dual 400MHz RAMDACs
  Blazing-fast RAMDACs support dual QXGA displays with ultra-high, ergonomic refresh rates–up to 2048x1536@85Hz
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 Support
  Ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for all DirectX 9 applications, including Shader Model 3.0 titles

Specifications:

• Graphics Bus
  PCI Express
• Memory Interface
  128-bit
• Memory Bandwidth
  16.0 GB/sec.
• Fill Rate (texels/sec.)
  4.0 billion
• Vertices per Second
  375 million
• Memory Data Rate
  1000 MHz
• Pixels per Clock (peak)
  8
• RAMDACs
  400 MHz

“High-Definition Video: NVIDIA PureVideo technology finally allows you to experience lifelike HD video on your PC, notebook, or HDTV without the expense of additional home-theater devices. With dedicated hardware to accelerate MPEG-2/DVD as well as the new Microsoft® Windows Media® HD Video (WMV HD) standard, your DVDs come to life in detail never before possible on a PC. Using NVIDIA PureVideo technology, the GPU offloads video decoding from the CPU, resulting in smooth, stutter-free, high-definition video playback. And, since PureVideo supports most current and future HD formats, you can rest assured that a PC powered by PureVideo will keep up with the pace of tomorrow’s video technologies, and continue to deliver HD content well into the future.

 

Superb Picture Clarity: Using revolutionary techniques, NVIDIA’s PureVideo technology addresses typical video playback image problems, and delivers superb picture clarity free of imperfections. PureVideo uses the most advanced de-interlacing to deliver a crisp image without the double images typical of simpler, traditional de-interlacing techniques. And enhanced 3:2 and 2:2 pulldown eliminates the blurring and ghosting commonly associated with other video processing solutions.

 

Scale Videos to Any Size with Full-Resolution Video Enhancement: PCs get video from many sources—webcams, camcorders, Web files, etc.—which are very rarely the size of a high-resolution display. With the accurate scaling and subpixel calculations of PureVideo, videos can be enlarged to fill the whole screen without looking blocky or blurred. In addition, when video is scaled down to fit on a small area of a PC display, typical bilinear scaling techniques loose image detail and result in flickering. PureVideo provides high-quality scaling to maintain image detail without the annoying flicker.”