<br><blockquote><i>SANTA CLARA, CA—SEPTEMBER 23, 2004—NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today announced that add-in boards based on NVIDIA® GeForce™ 6600 graphics processing units (GPUs) are available immediately at http://www.gameve.com and http://www.buyxtremegear.com/sparkle.html<p>
As an extension of the award-winning GeForce 6 Series, GeForce 6600 graphics processors are the first mainstream GPUs to support Microsoft® DirectX® 9.0 Shader Model 3.0, and a superscalar architecture for unprecedented performance in its class. GeForce 6600 GPUs also feature a dedicated on-chip video processor that brings prosumer-quality video playback to the personal computer. In addition, the GeForce 6600 GT brings the innovative NVIDIA SLI™ multi-GPU technology to the mainstream market, which could enable millions of users to experience the power of two GPUs in their system.<p>
The newest additions to the GeForce 6 Series of GPUs include:<p>
-The GeForce 6600 GT—The NVIDIA GeForce 6600 GT has an eight pipe superscalar design, supports 128MB of GDDR3 graphics memory, includes NVIDIA SLI multi-GPU technology, and has a suggested street price of $199.<br>
-The GeForce 6600—The GeForce 6600 GPU also has an eight pipe superscalar design and supports 128MB of DDR graphics memory. </i></blockquote><p>