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		SLI Technology NVIDIA® SLI™ technology takes advantage of the increased bandwidth of the PCI Express™ bus architecture, and features intelligent hardware and software solutions to deliver earth-shattering PC performance in a multi NVIDIA GPU solution. NVIDIA SLI supported solutions of select GeForce PCI Express GPUs, and nForce4 SLI/SLI X16 MCPs only.

Supercharge your gaming with the power of an NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GPU. The NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6600 GPUs deliver best-in-class performance and advanced visual effects for next-generation games. The only GPU in its class with support for Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 and with support for PCI Express, the GeForce 6600 delivers ultra-realistic effects, unmatched features, and rock-solid stability so you can play your game the way it’s meant to be played.

Available models (the following models are available in both PCI Express and AGP 8X versions): GeForce 6600 GT and GeForce 6600.


			Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 Support Ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for all DirectX 9 applications, including Shader Model 3.0 titles.

			PureVideo Technology NVIDIA PureVideo™ technology is a combination of the new GeForce 6 Series GPUs’ high-definition video processor and NVIDIA video decode software that delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for all video content on any display.

			PCI Express Designed to run perfectly with the next-generation PCI Express bus architecture. This new bus doubles the bandwidth of AGP 8X delivering over 4 GB/sec. in both upstream and downstream data transfers.


Graphics Bus	PCI Express	AGP 8X
Memory Interface	128-bit	128-bit
Memory Bandwidth	16.0 GB/sec.	14.4 GB/sec.
Fill Rate (texels/sec.)	4.0 billion	4.0 billion
Vertices per Second	375 million	375 million
Memory Data Rate	1000 MHz	900 MHz
Pixels per Clock (peak)	8	8
RAMDACs	400 MHz	400 MHz