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Press release; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES [Tuesday 8 November 2005]
Albatron Technology and XFX introduced new SLI-ready graphics cards based on the Nvidia GeForce 6800 GS, following Nvidia’s announcement of the availability of the GPU on November 7.
Nvidia’s Geforce 6800 GS-series GPUs supports Microsoft’s DirectX 9.0 and Shader Model 3.0 technologies and has dual integrated RAMDACs operating at 400 MHz, allowing screen resolutions up to and including 2048×1536 at 85Hz, according to Nvidia. Nvidia said that graphics cards based on the Geforce 6800 GS series should be priced at around US$249.
Albatron’s new PC6800GS VGA card supports a core clock speed of 425 MHz and contains 12 pipelines. The card features a memory configuration using 256MB of DDR3 memory with a 256-bit memory bus. Albatron says that the card is now available for sale worldwide but declined to give a price range.
XFX introduced its XFX GeForce 6800 GS eXTreme and XXX series today. The eXTreme line has a core clock speed of 450MHz, whereas the high-end XXX series runs at 485MHz, according to the company.
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Albatron PC6800GS and XFX GeForce 6800 GS series graphics cards specifications | |
Item |
Albatron PC6800GS |
XFX GeForce 6800 GS eXTreme |
XFX GeForce 6800 GS XXX | |
Engine clock |
425 MHz |
450 MHz |
485 MHz | |
Memory clock |
1.0 GHz |
1.05 GHz |
1.1 GHz | |
Chipset |
Nvidia GeForce 6800 GS (NV42) | |
Memory bus |
256bit | |
Memory |
256MB DDR3 | |
Pipelines |
12 | |
SLI-ready |
Yes | |
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Source: Companies, compiled by DigiTimes, November 2005
Photo: Companies
Categories: Add-on card Mobo, chipset Mobos Topics: Hot Systems
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