I hope Nvidia keeps going backwards. I wanna see how far they go. <br>"Introducing the all-new revamped gtx 0080!" <br>* shows 3 fidgit spinners hotglued to a piece of plywood*,(reply>), @Mud Kip yeah that period I was also.more into ati as well. But mostly because the had the most bang for the money. At least til the GeForce 8000gt-9000gt lines,(reply>), @Denver Starkey Going by release dates the GeForce 6800 is listed as launched on April 14th, 2004 while the 9800 was released launched on March 1st, 2003 and the X800 was released May 4, 2004. So yeah your right the 6800 was competing with the X800. Still, a year difference wasn't that much and technology was advancing quickly. Really I started paying less attention to Nvidia and more to ATI around that time. Plus the names of shit started going off the rails at that time. What was once easy, GeForce 2,3,4 turned into stupid numbers and same with ATI going to HD2000, 3000. Wish companies would make naming a bit better and easier.,(reply>), @Mud Kip  cool , that's one i never saw . here's video cards i owned in order :  <br><br>Voodoo 2 (built by diamond , lost to time.)  <br>Then huge jump  to  :<br>TNT 2 ultra (lost to time) <br>Geforce 2 ultra (wound up in a pc my grandmother had , not sure where it is now)<br>Geforce 4 4600ti (wound up in a pc for my grandma,  died heat death when fans stopped working)  <br>Radeon 9700 pro (stil have it in a box somewhere  no fan though).  <br>Radeon HD 850  (died after one year wound up in landfill) <br>Geforce  9800 GT  (died unknown reason )<br>Radeon HD 3450 (AGP , also died of unknown reason)        <br>Radeon  HD 5770  (still going  , it's in my mom's pc , note: last vid card i have made by ATI )<br>AMD's Radeon  HD 7870 powercolor  MYST edition  (tahiti core)  , (fans died , card works , have it sitting in a box though) <br>Geforce 1070  (current card in my system)      <br><br><br>i know nobody asked ,  just love taking the oportunity to reminiece  about old video cards ,  i currently  got a retro pc in my closet that's waiting for a OS  , it has a TNT 2  MX  card in it and i so wish i still had my tnt 2 ultra or geforce 2 ultra for the build.,(reply>), @Mud Kip umm dude the geforce 6800  was a gen or two removed from the ATI 9800pro.   nvidia had released the Geforce   4 series   and the gefroce 4 4600ti  was king till ati released the radeon 9700 pro   , nivida then answered it witht eh Geforce 5000 series  gpu's  , ati fired back with teh 9800 pro but it didn't really have the juice of a loaded GF 5800  gpu since it was just a incremental step up from the 9700 pro.  .  then the following year  ati and nivida both released new series cards , nvidia with the 6000 geforce's  and ATI with their first round of  Radeon HD branded card,  i had the Radeon HD850.  i upgarded from my 9700 pro to it. made a massive diference at the time .. but well this card (a saphire one )  was teh first video card i had die on me.  after 1 year it just gave up.   but yeah point being  the radeon 9800pro  was not the same gen as the geforce 6000 series , it was basically an expansion  on a gen of card (the 9700 pro)    that was meant to compete with the Geforce 4 4000's   but wound up more in line with the geforce 5000's since it was so much better than the 4's.   that said the radeon 9000's had better color depth  than the geforce 5000's  and that i why  i went radeon 9700 pro when i upgraded from  geforce 4, 4600ti.,(reply>), @Mud Kip  having bought a 250 dollar  Geforce 2 Ultra the year before ,  i skipped  Geforce 3,    when i upgraded i went to a Geforce 4 4600 ti.    i do still have a OG xbox though and it's gpu is a modified geforce 3.  Though it's dvd drive no longer reads disc.