AOpen Aeolous 6800Ultra

Review Pages

1. Introduction
2. Features
3. A closer look
4. Test System
5. 3DMark05
6. 3DMark03
7. Codecreatures
8. Aquamark3 / 3DMark 2001
9. Half life 2
10. Doom 3
11. FarCry
12. Thief 3
13. Colin McRae 05
14. Ground Control II
15. Conclusion

These are the main characteristics of the AOpen Aeolus 6800Ultra.

GPU	nVidia GeForce 6800-Ultra Chip Technology : 256-bit DirectX Generation : 9 Process : 0.13 Micron 16 Pixel Pipelines
Video Memory	DDR3 256 MB
Highest Resolution / Colors / Refresh Rate	2048x1536 / 32bit / 85Hz
RAMDAC speed	400 MHz
2D Performance	2048x1536 @ 85hz
Revolutionary 3D Accelerator Features	Optimized DirectX and OpenGL acceleration
Connectors	DVI connector x 2 TV-Out(S-Video) x 1
Driver Support	Microsoft Direct3D®, DirectDraw® ,DirectVideo® and ActiveX® for Window 95/98/ME® OS : Windows 2000/XP DirectX : 8 / 9 SGI OpenGL ICD : Windows 2000/XP
Software Package	Auto driver installation wizard User-friendly interface to control VGA settings Full version WinDVD
Accessory	Cable : S-Video to Compose cable x 1 DVI-CRT converter x 1 User's Guide : AOpen User's Guide x 1 VGA driver disc : AOpen VGA driver disc x 1

The AOpen Aeolus 6800Ultra is based on the NV40 architecture. The RAMDAC speed is clocked at 400MHz. Its card uses 256MB of RAM, clocked at 1100MHz.

On-screen properties for the 6800 Ultra as reported by the VGA driver properties tab are show below:

Several features of the Aeolus 6800Ultra:

- CineFX 3.0

This is a groundbreaking new hardware technology that pushes 3D real-time graphics one step closer to film quality. It offers infinite length shader programs, dynamic flow control, displacement mapping, vertex frequency stream divider and Multiple Render Target (MRT) technology. Previously, highly complex effects were not possible without sacrificing performance and precision, because of long shader programs that required many computational passes. Now, with the CineFX 3.0 engine, groundbreaking effects can be created without compromising performance.

- SLI enabled

The NVIDIA nForce4 Scalable Link Interface (SLI) technology allows two graphics processing units in a single computer. This technology takes advantage of the PCI Express bus architecture and features intelligent hardware and software solutions that allows multiple GPUs to work together and achieve exceptional performance.

- UltraShadow II

More photo-realistic scenes and environments in your games, without compromising PC performance. Complicated lighting and shadow effects become practical and next-generation games rise to the next level in cinematic realism.

- E-Color 3Deep

E-Color 3Deep provides color and lighting correction to optimize your 3D gaming environment. 3Deep eliminates dark or washed out graphics for a key competitive edge in multiplayer games.

- Pixel Shader Model 3.0

Better performance and more realistic shades to produce high quality images within games.