Nvidia GeForce 6200 256MB 256MBG6200AGP Leaflet

Get ready for the most vibrant, lifelike, and elegant

graphics ever experienced on a PC. The

groundbreaking NVIDIA

6 Series of

graphics processing units (GPUs) and their

revolutionary technologies power worlds where

reality and fantasy meet; worlds in which new

standards are set for performance, visual quality,

realism, and video functionality. The GeForce 6 Series

GPUs deliver powerful, elegant graphics to drench

your senses, immersing you in unparalleled worlds

of visual effects for the ultimate PC experience. 

CINEFX 3.0 SHADING ARCHITECTURE
• Vertex Shaders

° Support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 

Vertex Shader 3.0

° Displacement mapping
° Geometry instancing
° Infinite length vertex programs

• Pixel Shaders

° Support for DirectX 9.0 Pixel Shader 3.0 
° Full pixel branching support
° Support for Multiple Render Targets 

(MRTs)

° Infinite length pixel programs

• Next-Generation Texture Engine

° Up to 16 textures per rendering pass
° Support for 16-bit floating point format 

and 32-bit floating point format

° Support for non-power of two textures
° Support for sRGB texture format for 

gamma textures

° DirectX and S3TC texture compression

• Full 128-bit studio-quality floating point

precision through the entire rendering
pipeline with native hardware support for
32bpp, 64bpp, and 128bpp rendering
modes

64-BIT TEXTURE FILTERING AND
BLENDING
• Full floating point support throughout

entire pipeline

• Floating point filtering improves the

quality of images in motion

• Floating point texturing drives new levels

of clarity and image detail

• Floating point frame buffer blending gives

detail to special effects like motion blur
and explosions

INTELLISAMPLE 3.0 TECHNOLOGY
• Advanced 16x anisotropic filtering
• Blistering-fast antialiasing and

compression performance

• New rotated-grid antialiasing removes

jagged edges for incredible edge quality

• Support for advanced lossless compression

algorithms for color, texture, and z-data at
even higher resolutions and frame rates

• Fast z-clear
• High-resolution compression technology

(HCT) increases performance at higher
resolutions through advances in
compression technology

ULTRASHADOW II TECHNOLOGY
• Designed to enhance the performance of

shadow-intensive games, like id Software’s
Doom III

ADVANCED ENGINEERING
• Designed for PCI Express x16
• Support for AGP 8X including Fast Writes

and sideband addressing

• Designed for high-speed GDDR3 memory
• Advanced thermal management and

thermal monitoring

ADVANCED VIDEO AND DISPLAY
FUNCTIONALIT Y
• Dedicated on-chip video processor
• MPEG video encode and decode
• WMV9 decode acceleration
• Advanced adaptive de-interlacing
• High-quality video scaling and filtering
• DVD and HDTV-ready MPEG-2 decoding up

to 1920x1080i resolution

• Dual integrated 400MHz RAMDACs for

display resolutions up to and including
2048x1536 at 85hz

• Dual DVO ports for interfacing to external

TMDS transmitters and external TV
encoders

• Microsoft

®

Video Mixing Renderer (VMR)

supports multiple video windows with full
video quality and features in each window

• Full NVIDIA

®

nView

™

multi-display

technology capability

(DVC) 3.0
• DVC color controls
• DVC image sharpening controls

OPERATING SYSTEMS
• Windows XP
• Windows ME
• Windows 2000
• Windows 9X
• Macintosh OS, including OS X
• Linux

API SUPPORT
• Complete DirectX support, including the

latest version of Microsoft DirectX 9.0
Shader Model 3.0 

• Full OpenGL, including OpenGL 1.5 

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NVIDIA GEFORCE 6 SERIES PRODUCT OVERVIEW AUGUST 2004 v03

SM 3.0

SM 3.0

AGP 8X/PCI Express

PCI Express

3.0

3.0

✓

1

✓

1

256-bit

128-bit

GDDR3

2

and DDR

GDDR3

2

and DDR

0.13µ

0.11µ

400 MHz

400 MHz

1

SLI – available on the PCI Express GeForce 6800 Ultra, 6800 GT, and 6600 GT only. 

2

GDDR3 – GeForce 6800 Ultra, 6800 GT, and 6600 GT only