Back on the 7th September, NVIDIA released the GeForce 6600GT's performance figures out in to the open. The GeForce 6600GT is likely to be a very popular seller with an expected retail price of around £160 (or $199 in the USA) and also the fact that it supports NVIDIA’s SLI technology. There was an air of excitement surrounding the board and its rather comprehensive feature set - we can expect to see retail 6600GT boards available in the very near future. On the other hand, ATI, have been keeping quiet about the latest addition to their "X" series of graphics chipsets: it's known as the X700 series.

Initially, the X700 series comprises of three boards, which are all based on the PCI-Express interface. ATI are predicting that the reach of PCI-Express is going to increase quite considerably over the next three months with the expected release of several PCI-Express chipsets, including their own, for the Athlon 64 platform. The three boards will fit in to the gap that existed in ATI's product range, which essentially means that they fit in to the same price and performance class as the GeForce 6600 series.



Link: Bit-Tech