ASUS V6600 GeForce 256 Review

Specifications

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ASUS V6600 GeForce 256

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nVidia's GeForce 256 Specs :

• 120MHz core working frequency
• Up to 200MHz memory bus working frequency
• Triangle processing rate supposedly equals 15mln triangles per second; sustained DMA, transform/clip/light, setup, rasterize and render rate
• 128-bit memory bus at SDR SDRAM/SGRAM, 256-bit memory bus at DDR SDRAM/SGRAM
• Up to 6.4GB/sec memory bus bandwidth (the top value achieved with DDR memory and 200MHz bus)
• The supported memory types include: SDRAM/SGRAM (with block write support) and DDR SDRAM/DDR SGRAM
• Up to 128MB local graphics memory
• 350 MHz integrated RAMDAC with gamma correction support
• Supported display resolutions up to 2048x1536 at 75Hz
• External bus interface: full AGP 4x/2x (including SBA and DME) and PCI 2.2 (including Bus Mastering). Supports AGP 4x Fast Writes, which allows direct data transfer between CPU and GPU at up to 1GB/sec avoiding the PC system memory. It should undoubtedly have positive influence on the overall performance and help to somehow reduce the system memory bus utilization.
• I2C serial bus and DDC; ACPI D0-D3 states and PCI power management; 100% PC'99 and PC'99a compliant
• 0.22 micron technology
• 23 million transistors
• DFP interface support with scaling, filtering and resolutions to 1600x1200
• TV-out with the resolution equal to 800x600

2D Acceleration Features

• 256-bit 2D graphics engine
• Support of BitBLT acceleration, rectangle and polygon fill, line draw, hardware cursor and panning/scrolling
• Graphics acceleration at 8, 16, and 32bit color depth

3D Acceleration Features

• 256-bit rendering processor
• Integrated geometric processor for Transform and Lighting (T&L)
• 4 rendering pipelines (4 pixels per time step)
• 8 source hardware lighting for the whole scene
• Geometric engine for floating point operations and polygons location
• Fillrate: 480mln pixels per second
• Texturing rate: 480mln texels per second and 240mln texels with multitexturing enabled
• 8 texture samples for each texel
• Absolute OpenGL and DX7 support - Transform and Lighting, Cube environment mapping, projective textures and texture compression
• Supports all 5 formats of DX6 texture compression
• Hardware bump mapping support. Embossing, Dot Product.
• Programmable blending of multiple textures
• Vertex Blending support, which provides natural-looking complex images in places of polygons connections. For example, if you need a model of a crankshaft taken from the car engine, vertex blending will provide natural looking fractures, otherwise all the polygon joints will be very noticeable.
• Rendering in 32bit color depth regime
• Full scene anti-aliasing
• 8-sample anisotropic filtering
• 8-bit stencil buffer support
• 16/24/32bit Z-buffer support
• Specular lighting and diffuse shading
• Enhanced alpha blending modes
• Vertex and pixel fog
• Supports the textures of 2048x2048 texels with 32bit precision

DVD/DTV Support

• HDTV (High Definition Television) support
• Video overlays support.
• Vertical and horizontal scaling with the coefficient equal to 8.1
• Hardware brightness, saturation and color contrast controls
• Multiple HDTV configurations supported via DMA host port and bus mastering
• Motion compensation support (we hope it will work)
• Hardware subpicture blending and highlights
• Hardware color spaces transformation support (YUV 4:2:2 and 4:2:0)
• Multi-pass filtering of video images (5 horizontal and 3 vertical levels)
• Data transformation from the planar YUV12 (4:2:0) format into the packed 4:2:2 format and vice versa
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