GeForce 6800 GS
High-performance card for the middle-end segment. With the release of ATI's thousandth line and nvidia's 7th series, the company discontinues production of 6800Ultra and 6800GT, releasing "overclocked mid-range" models made according to a finer technical process and switched to a new generation PCB design.
This approach saves a lot of effort and nerves. The video chip of the old architecture has already been “licked out” for a long time of production, it is easier to transfer a less complex chip to a finer technical process, as a result of this - a high percentage of good chips and the absence of unpleasant surprises in any applications. And doping in the form of increased frequencies helped to come close in performance to the recent regulars in the top segment.
Specifications NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GS
| Name | GeForce 6800GS |
| Core | NV42 |
| Process technology (µm) | 0.11 |
| Transistors (million) | 190 |
| Core frequency | 425 |
| Memory frequency (DDR) | 500 (1000) |
| Bus and memory type | GDDR3 256 Bit |
| Bandwidth (Gb/s) | 32 |
| Pixel pipelines | 12 |
| TMU per conveyor | 1 |
| textures per clock | 12 |
| textures per pass | 12 |
| Vertex conveyors | 5 |
| Pixel Shaders | 3.0 |
| Vertex Shaders | 3.0 |
| Fill Rate (Mpix/s) | 5100 |
| Fill Rate (Mtex/s) | 5100 |
| DirectX | 9.0c |
| Anti-Aliasing (Max) | SS&MS - 8x |
| Anisotropic Filtering (Max) | 16x |
| Memory | 128/256 |
| Interface | PCI-E AGP |
| RAMDAC | 2x400 |
As for overclocking, this accelerator showed excellent potential, could easily outperform even the 6800 Ultra, having a price of $150 less, and was a good choice for gamers.