GeForce 6800GS Releases Today!

It’s somewhat of an oddity to see a brand new 6* series card being released, after the 7* series have been out since late June. The 6800GS looks to be a direct competitor with the X1600XT, and has specifications a fair bit under a regular 6800GT.

As you can see, NVIDIA is doing two rather important things with the new 6800 GS. Firstly they made sure that the core frequency is clocked a good 20-25% faster over the standard 6800. Next to that they have armed the GS with more and faster high-end gDDR3 memory which now runs at a 500 MHz clock frequency (that’s effectively 1000 MHz). Can you smell the performance increase already ? Interestingly enough this product might swing towards and over GT performance here and there due to the high framebuffer bandwidth and the higher than GT core frequency, but we’ll have to check that out in our benchmark sessions where we’ll put performance to the test.

Is this card going to be worth throwing in your next build, or your mothers computer? Check out the full review at Guru3D and Hard|OCP and Tech Report and AnandTech!