Nvidia introduces new graphics cards in time for Doom 3

12 August 2004 16:29 GMT / By Stuart Miles

Nvidia has today launched two new graphics cards aimed at enhancing gameplay for the forthcoming title Doom 3. The two new models - the GeForce 6600 and GeForceTM 6600 GT are the latest addition to the GeForce 6 Series.
The two new cards offer 42frames per second quality at 1600x1200x32 resolution settings.

As an extension of the GeForce 6 Series, these two new graphics processors are the first mainstream GPUs to support Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and a superscalar architecture for unprecedented performance.

For the gaming mad the newest additions to the GeForce 6 Series of GPUs include:
- The GeForce 6600 GT—The NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT has an eight pipe superscalar design, supports 128MB of GDDR3 graphics memory, includes NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU technology.
- The GeForce 6600—The GeForce 6600 GPU also has an eight pipe superscalar design and supports 128MB of DDR graphics memory.

The GeForce 6600 and GeForce 6600 GT GPUs are expected to be available in late September for from the world's leading add-in card manufacturers priced from around £200 upwards.

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