Yesterday NVIDIA Corporation announced two new products in the NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series of graphics processing units (GPUs). They are a 512MB version of the GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU and a new lower-cost AGP version of the GeForce 6200 GPU with DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 support.
?Whether you are an extreme gamer or someone looking for an amazing upgrade, NVIDIA has the right product,?said Ujesh Desai, general manager desktop products at NVIDIA. ?These two new products further validate our commitment to bringing leading-edge performance and features to both the AGP and PCI Express markets.
Working with leading DDR manufacturers, the NVIDIA 512MB DDR3 GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU provides faster frame rates at higher resolutions and color depths and double the memory for geometry data and textures. The 512MB DDR3 GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU also features SLI technology. In the mainstream space, the new GeForce 6200 AGP GPU brings Shader Model 3.0 functionality to the $79 price point.
These new products also utilize the NVIDIA ForceWare software suite and Unified Driver Architecture (UDA). The NVIDIA GeForce 6800, GeForce 6600, and GeForce 6200 models are available for both PCI Express and AGP-based PCs.
These new GPUs are shipping now from NVIDIA and are expected to be available from numerous partners in April.
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