Final Words...

It’s clear that 6800 vanilla isn’t a strong competitor to NVIDIA’s 6600GT offering unless you prefer to play games at high resolutions with AA and AF turned on. In Unreal Tournament 2004, the card performed well across the board. However, we do expect it to perform even better. Our CPU turned out to be a bottleneck in this case. Regardless, the rest of the games showed solid performance at 1280x1024 and 1600x1200 resolutions with no AA and AF. As soon as we increased the load on the adapter, the 6800 made a noticeable impact.

As we had stated throughout the evaluation, there’s nothing that sets EVGA apart from the rest of the manufacturers except their impressive customer service. The package is lackluster with absolutely no games and a couple of trial editions that serve no purpose either. That said, the package does offer the standard accessories that every other manufacturer includes. Furthermore, there’s no engineering innovation involved with EVGA either, which yields to yet another disadvantage.

Even though we have nagged EVGA in certain portions of the evaluation, we must say that EVGA’s drawbacks ultimately prove to be a solid strategy not only for the company, but also for its customers. On average, we found this particular graphics adapter to be around $240.00 on various retailers. When we went to compare the prices against similar products from Asus, Gigabyte and other such manufacturers, their PCIe 6800 vanilla cards retailed around $290.00. This depicts savings of $50.00 or 20.8 percent when compared to the competition.

If you are looking for the prettiest graphics adapter on the market despite the cost, EVGA is certainly not the choice for you. However, if you are looking for a competitive solution with simplistic appearance, EVGA’s 6800 PCIe is possibly the most affordable solution you can purchase currently.