ASUS V6800/64 MB GeForce

Long is gone the time when ASUS was thought of as a small Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer. Ever since ASUS's entrance into the video card market with the TNT based V3400, the motherboard manufacturer has expanded its market scope by becoming a large video card manufacturer as well. Beginning with this card, ASUS has consistently produced products known for their innovation as well as high quality. Throughout the years ASUS has seen high sales of not only the V3400 but also almost all of the very successful V series in general.

One of the largest manufacturers of NVIDIA based video cards, ASUS happened to be one of the first companies to jump on the 64 MB GeForce boat. Produced for some time now for OEM channels, ASUS is now ready to put their V6800/64 card on the retail market. Powered by the 64 MB GeForce design described in detail in our 64 MB GeForce review, the V6800/64 attempts to make its mark in the high performance graphics market. Let's see how the ASUS V6800/64 performs in comparison to other 64 MB GeForce cards out there. We begin by looking at the product specifications.

• ASUS Smart Doctor Technologies
  SmartCooling technology
  Dynamic OverClocking
  Over-Heat protection
  Fan RMP monitoring
  AGP power level monitoring
• QuadPipe Rendering
  256-bit parallel pixel pipe design
  4 pixels per clock
  480 M pixels/second fill rate
  32 texture samples per clock
  Full-speed 8-sample filtering
• QuadEngine Architecture
  Four independent pipelined engines
  Industry-leading 3D performance
  15 M triangles/second
  Sustained DMA, transform/clip/light, setup, raterize, and render rate
  Extremely efficient: >70% of the chip active at all times
  Up to 6 triangles "in flight" at a time
  Super pipelined design
  Very low latency between engines
• Superior 2D Performance
  256-bit 2D rendering pipeline
  4 pixels per clock on all scaled and index image operations
  1 GB/s CPU-to-GPU memory via AGP 4x with fast writes
• Optimized for DirectX 7 and OpenGL
  Transform and lighting
  Cube environment mapping
  Vertex blending
  Projective textures
  Texture compression
• AGP 4x with Fast Writes
  Enables CPU to send data directly to GPU
  System memory bus free to perform other functions
  Balanced design increases overall system performance
• Software Bundle
  ASUSDVD software player
  Darkan
  Rollcage
  12 game demos