Back in December 2004, NVIDIA introduced their latest evolution in the budget graphics card market with the release of
TurboCache technology.he focus with TurboCache was both system resource utilization and economics, in an effort to deliver a quality business-class/casual gaming video card at the lowest possible price point. NVIDIA wanted to achieve this while still offering many of the features of the higher-end 6600 and 6800 series cards but at a much lower price tag. Through the use of software and hardware, a new TurboCache designed video card could allocate a chunk of system memory to be used concurrently with the video card's local memory. This meant that even though the card had only 16MB or 32MB of on-board memory, it could allocate a full 128MB Frame Buffer with a peak bandwidth of 13.6GB/s. Thanks to the 8GB/sec (4GB bi-directional) bandwidth offered by PCI Express Graphics links to system resources, new architectural options were now available that could not fully be exploited with the aging AGP bus.
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Hothardware
Mar 1, 2005, 06:46 AM
