Tech Ambrosia | The End of an Era - GeForce 6800 GS AGP @TechAmbr | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
The last nVidia fixed-function GPU: Curie
The GeForce 6 and 7 series were a return to form for nVidia in the early 2000s, after the disastrous launch of the GeForce FX series in 2003.
Competing with the Radeon X800 series and X1000 series, Curie was nVidia's last GPU architecture to used separate, dedicated fixed-function hardware for vertex and pixel shading functions.
Let's have a look at my favorite example of this architecture, the GeForce 6800 GS AGP in this inaugural episode of The Department Of Rendering.
Test System Specs:
Motherboard: Asus P5PE-VM (Intel 865G chipset)
CPU: Intel Core2 Extreme X6800 @ 2.93GHz
RAM: 2GB Kingston DDR-400 CL3
OS: Windows XP SP3
00:00 - Introduction
01:20 - Curie in relation to its peers
03:14 - Game showcase
06:21 - Benchmarks: Test System Specs
07:52 - The Benchmark Results
10:48 - Conclusion
The last nVidia fixed-function GPU: Curie
The GeForce 6 and 7 series were a return to form for nVidia in the early 2000s, after the disastrous launch of the GeForce FX series in 2003.
Competing with the Radeon X800 series and X1000 series, Curie was nVidia's last GPU architecture to used separate, dedicated fixed-function hardware for vertex and pixel shading functions.
Let's have a look at my favorite example of this architecture, the GeForce 6800 GS AGP in this inaugural episode of The Department Of Rendering.
Test System Specs:
Motherboard: Asus P5PE-VM (Intel 865G chipset)
CPU: Intel Core2 Extreme X6800 @ 2.93GHz
RAM: 2GB Kingston DDR-400 CL3
OS: Windows XP SP3
00:00 - Introduction
01:20 - Curie in relation to its peers
03:14 - Game showcase
06:21 - Benchmarks: Test System Specs
07:52 - The Benchmark Results
10:48 - Conclusion
