By Joe Little

NVIDIA announced their GeForce 6200 GPU today, which will deliver GeForce 6 Series architecture and performance to the value PC segment. The GeForce 6200 features the industry’s most advanced graphics feature set and delivers an extraordinary gaming experience on next-generation titles as well as consumer electronics-quality, high definition video playback.

GeForce 6200 GPUs are currently the only graphics processors in the value segment that supports Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 which is being used to develop ultra realistic, next-generation DirectX 9.0 games. Only NVIDIA GPUs offer NVIDIA UltraShadow II technology to deliver blazing speeds on next-generation, shadow- ntensive games such as Doom 3. GeForce 6 Series of GPUs also feature the industry’s first GPU-based programmable video processing engine for high-definition video playback. Backed by the NVIDIA ForceWare software suite and Unified Driver Architecture , the GeForce 6200 GPUs ensure industry-renowned compatibility and reliability for a great user experience.

The cards are currently shipping and will be available from the company’s partners in November.