G84, Geforce 8600 to score 4500 in 3Dmark 06

NVIDIA'S Geforce 8600 cards, based on the G84 die, should score about 4500 points in famous 3Dmark06. This mainstream card will go into production in March or April time and it will still use the 128-bit memory interface.

The card is of course DirectX 10 compatible and with it Nvidia will beat ATI to market in this sub-$200 market segment. This card will compete ATI's Radeon X2600 cards also known as RV630s.

Our little source also told us that this Nvidia card has 160 square mm die and compared to ATI's 65 nanometre competitor it will end up bigger. We don't know about the yields but the numbers will settle prior to the launch.

G84 is all Vista DirectX 10 ready and we hope that Nvidia can make the WHQL Vista driver before that date.

We are sure Graphzilla can do it but we thought we should give it a pinch before it finally gets its finger out. µ