3DMark05 b1.2.0
Taking a look at 3DMark05 performance without any additional I.Q., we see that the DDR2-equipped GeForce 6600, albeit one with an overclocked core, benchmarks closer to a 'GT than to a vanilla GeForce 6600. Also note the benefits of having a 256MB framebuffer at the 1600x1200 test, which are enough for it to beat out the more-expensive 'GT.
Adding 2x FSAA and 4x anisotropic filtering, which is probably the optimum I.Q. settings when running GPU-intensive games on low-to-midrange graphics cards, the XFX GeForce 6600 DDR2 256MB generally ties with the ATI RADEON X1300 Pro 256MB and GeForce 6600 GT 128MB cards. Taking 3DMark05 as a reasonable barometer of D3D gaming performance, a score of 2,000 marks at 1280x1024 2x AA 4x AF, the target resolution and I.Q. settings, we feel, infers that the card will struggle at anything higher, and you may need to knock some of the quality settings.
