GeForce 6200 TurboCache

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On a technical level, we really like the TurboCache. The design solves price/performance problems that have been around quite a while. Making some real use of the bandwidth offered by the PCI Express bus is a promising move that we didn't expect to see happen this early on or in this fashion.

There are a couple of shaky spots to the TurboCache product that may or may not end up being issues to consumers. The first possible issue is marketing. NVIDIA have conducted some "world wide focus groups" on how best to market the new turbo cache product and they've come up with this.

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Beyond the marketing issue, it is conceivable that game developers could want to use the bandwidth of PCI Express for their own concoctions. Depending on how smart the driver is and how tricky the developer is, this may prove somewhat at odds on a TurboCache chip. Reading from and writing to the framebuffer from the CPU hasn't been an option in the past, but as systems and processors become faster, there are some interesting things that can be done with this type of processing.