NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT - AGP Version
Test Setup and some benchmarks
HOW WE CONFIGURED THE TEST SYSTEM: We tested the NVIDIA GeForce 6600GT on our trusted Asus P4P800 Deluxe i865PE chipset-based motherboard, powered by an Intel
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| Hardware: Motherboard - Video Cards - Memory - Audio - Hard Drive - Optical Drive - Other - Software: Operating System - Chipset Drivers - DirectX - Video Drivers - |
Intel Asus P4P800 Deluxe i865PE Chipset NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT (AGP Version) ATI Radeon 9800 Pro NVIDIA GeForceFX 5900XT 512MB Kingston HyperX PC3500 SDRAM Integrated SoundMax Audio Western Digital "Special Edition" 80GB - 7,200RPM - IDE Lite-On 16X DVD-ROM 3.5" Floppy Drive Windows XP Professional SP1 (Fully Patched) Intel INF v6.0.1.1002 DirectX 9.0c ATI Catalyst v4.10 NVIDIA Forceware v66.93 |
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;) 3DMark05 |
3DMark05 is the latest installment in a long line of synthetic 3D graphics benchmarks, dating back to late 1998. 3DMark99 came out in October 1998, and was followed by the very popular DirectX 7 benchmark, 3DMark2000, roughly two years later. The DirectX 8.1 compliant 3DMark2001 was released shortly thereafter, and it too was a very popular tool used by many hardcore gamers. 3DMark03, however, wasn't quite as well received thanks in no small part to the dissapproval of graphics giant NVIDIA. With 3DMark05 though, Futuremark hopes to win back some of their audience, with a very advanced DirectX 9 benchmarking tool. We ran 3DMark05's default test (1024x768) on all of the cards we tested and have the overall results for you posted below... |
In our first of many tests that we put the three cards through, the 6600 GT came away as the clear winner, outperforming the 9800 Pro by nearly 25%. The GFFX 5900 XT with it's lower peak fill rate is the real victim here, unable to put up any kind of comparable numbers.
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 Final Fantasy XI |
The Final Fantasy franchise is well known to console gamers, but Squaresoft has since made the jump to the PC with a MMORPG version of this classic. The Final Fantasy XI benchmark runs through multiple scenes from the game and displays a final score every time a full cycle of the demo is completed. Although the demo is meant to check an entire system's readiness to play the game, the number of frames rendered scales when different video cards are used. Lower scores indicate some frames were dropped to complete the demo in the allotted time. The scores below were taken with the demo set to its "High Resolution" option (1024x768) with anti-aliasing disabled. |
The Final Fantasy Benchmark quickly turned the tables on the 6600 GT. We saw the 9800 Pro in the lead, although by a smaller overall magin - roughly 11%. In fact, in this benchmark at least, the peformance level of the 6600 GT was only marginally better than that of last year's GeForce FX 5900XT.
