It should be interesting to note the performance on the 6600GT card from AOpen. The card is targeted at the $200 price point and should not be compared to the X850XT PE or the GEFORCE 6 6800 Ultra at the high end. Nevertheless, ATI has released an X800 PCI Express card for this price point. Unfortunately, I don’t have one to compare the 6600GT to.

Test System
3.4 GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 800MHz FSB 2MB L2 cache LGA-775
1 GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2 667MHz
2 74GB WD Raptor HDDs 9.3ms seek, 10,000 RPM
Windows XP with SP2
DirectX 9.0c
Forceware 71.89

Test Software
Half Life2 Anandtech Canal and Coast timedemos
Doom3 Timedemo
3DMark2005
3DMark 2003
Halo
Gunmetal Benchmark 2
Serious Sam The Second Encounter Little Trouble Demo
Final Fantasy The Benchmark 2
Aquamark 3
UT2003