Rashi launches Nvidia's graphic processing unit

Nvidia Corporation introduced the GeForce 6200 graphics processing unit (GPU) with TurboCache technology. It is a patented hardware and software technology, which allows a GPU to render directly to system memory, instead of using local memory on the graphics card. The technology lowers on-board memory requirements, enabling system builders to deliver PCs with more feature-rich GPUs and offer customers better graphics performance.

Nvidia has re-architected the 3D graphics pipeline for GeForce 6200 to allow direct rendering from the GPU to system memory by leveraging the bi-directional PCI Express bandwidth. The TurboCache Manager allocates memory for maximum system performance while the software algorithms maximize application performance.

This technology supports Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader 3.0, which is being used to develop next-generation DirectX 9.0 games. It also features PureVideo technology, a combination of hardware and software that brings consumer electronics-quality video to the PC. 

"GeForce 6200 has taken ahead the GeForce 6 Series graphics architecture," commented Kapal Pansari, Business Manager, Rashi Peripherals. He further elaborated that customers now have the technology at the front end of performance. XFX PVT 44P RAH6, which GeForce 6200 GPUs with TurboCache will be priced at Rs 4,500 and will be available in India in the fourth week of January 2005 through Rashi Peripherals and its branches all over India. 

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