facebook rss twitter

Review: NVIDIA's SLI - 6600 GT Performance and Conclusion

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 28 November 2004, 00:00

Tags: NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA)

Quick Link: HEXUS.net/qa5c

Add to My Vault: x

Doom 3

AFR mode is the default for Doom 3 again with 6600 GT in AFR mode. Benchmarks are done in High Quality and Ultra Quality modes.

High Quality

Doom 3 - High Quality

At the initial setting without anti-aliasing, the pair of 6600 GTs match a single 6800 Ultra for speed. Thereafter however, they fall back to match a single 6800 GT. I'll examine the performance increases in more detail soon.

Doom3 - Ultra Quality

In the Ultra quality mode, with uncompressed normal maps abound, initial performance is excellent, outstripping the single 6800 Ultra without issue. A subsequent settings, it matches or slightly lags behind a single 6800 GT. The framebuffer size of the boards, and their memory interface, conspires against them in that race for GT or Ultra-matching performance.