Specs

New Toys

120MHz/150MHz core/memory clock
32MB DDR SGRAM
Integrated geometry transform engine
Integrated dynamic lighting engine
Quad-pixel rendering pipeline
480 million pixels per second fill rate
15 million triangles per second peak throughput
Cube-environment mapping
Single-pass emboss and dot-product bump mapping
Vertex Blending
DX6 Texture Compression
350MHz RAMDAC
2D resolution of 2048x1536 at 75Hz
AGP4X with Fast Writes
OpenGL ICD for Windows98, NT4, 2000
DX7 Support
HDTV motion compensation
Full frame rate DVD to 1080i resolution
ASUS SmartDoctor utilitiy
Software WinDVD based player
Drakan Full Version
Rollcage Full Version
12-Game Demo CD
VR 3D Glasses
ASUSLIVE Capture Driver - 704x480 real time 30fps video capture
Large Screen TV-Out (800*600) - S-Video and Composite connectors
Video-In Support - Video capture, video editing, video conference
Ulead VideoStudio 3.0 + MPEG-II Color Encoder Bundled - Video Editing,
MPEG/II encoding & real time capture

About the New Toys

You will find many of these features on other GeForce based cards because they all use NVIDIA's GeForce 256 chip. If your GeForce card doesn't have two thirds of that spec list, then you might have purchased a GeFarce on accident.

The sheer amount of video output and input connections on the ASUS card is a sight to behold. The ASUS Deluxe has the VR 3-D glasses connector, S-Video output, an RCA video out, and to put a cherry on top a video-in port. Few GeForce cards have TV-outputs, and only one other, which also happens to be an ASUS card, has video inputs. For gaming we don't need all these newfangled options, but I'm not complaining. It's always nice to get a product you know is at the top of its' game, and still has that added "mine is better than yours" factor.

The V6800 Deluxe is almost identical to the V6600 Deluxe and you can read about the shared features in our original V6600 Deluxe review. The only real difference between the cards is the type of memory. The V6600 uses plain old SDR (single data rate) memory and the V6800 uses DDR (double data rate) memory. DDR effectively doubles the amount of memory bandwidth available, allowing cards to sustain higher resolutions without a huge performance hit.