NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT PCI Express Review

Presently the availability of the PCI Express 6800’s are up in the air. Board vendors currently only appear to have access to the GeForce FX based PCX series and NVIDIA have stated that these will only be brought to the market as and when there is a demand for them. With only two PCI Express based chipsets, the retail market for PCI Express graphics is fairly limited, and mainly only OEM’s are concerned with it at the moment, so while there is little demand there is little reason to bring it to market.

However, as more chipsets with PCI Express support become available there will be more choice and this will increase the popularity of PCI Express systems. Its rumoured that NVIDIA will soon be bringing a PCI Express AMD chipset to the market, with support for two PEG x16 slots, and if this is the case you can guarantee that NVIDIA will be making a bigger PCI Express push with this, and they are more then likely wanting to make their full high end SLI solution available as a carrot to enthusiasts, so availability of PCI Express 6800’s is probably going to be more important to NVIDIA then.

So, all in all, the PCI Express GeForce 6800 GT will allow you to have a PCI Express based system with the same performance as an AGP 6800 GT in current applications, however future applications that make use of full PCI Express bandwidths remain a bit of a question mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT PCI Express @ Beyond3D