Monday, April 30th 2007
GeForce 8800 Ultra on the 2nd
NDAs about the GeForce 8800 Ultra will expire on the 2nd of May. The final speeds of the card will end up at 612 MHz for the core and 2160 MHz for the memory. The original plan was to have the chip running at 650 MHz, but it looks like NVIDIA didn't push the limits as far as expected.
The shaders of this card will run at 1.5 GHz, which will make them faster than the R600 shader units. The card should end up with a $900 price tag.
Source:
Fudzilla
The shaders of this card will run at 1.5 GHz, which will make them faster than the R600 shader units. The card should end up with a $900 price tag.
58 Comments on GeForce 8800 Ultra on the 2nd
So take that! :laugh:
yup ill take that and make u eat it. Yum :p
BTW : you do know I was joking, right?
Another analogy is checking out the super-hot chicks coming out to meet the spring, and then actually going home to your ol' misses. Naturally my misses is super-hot and all that, but I'm trying to help you other guys understand :D
You're a fanboy period.
He was talking about the $900 price tag for a overclocked 8800GTX. While it may be better then the X2900XTX, the X2900XTX is not almost a thousand dollars. I for one would just get the cheaper card and phase change it and overclock it myself, while saving $600 and using it to buy another X2900XTX for crossfire, that would stomp a 8800GTX in SLi or even a single Ultra. Prolly not going to sell to many Ultras...
Nice card but the 8900 is around the corner so its quite useless...
PS : There may even be faster timings memory modules than the ones found on the GTS/GTX models.
moron
Edit: I just checked your system specs, you have an 8800. It must infuriate you to know that you spent a lot of money on a graphics card, the r600 may be a lot more powerful, and you spent that money on a possibly inferior graphics card when there are no real DX10 games released yet.
WHEN Ati releases the R600 ( which wont be better according to their own reps ) we will see how good or bad it is and how much better or worse the 8800 is.
However with the 8800 Ultra out and the 8900 around the corner even IF the R600 is better i doubt it will have enough time to enjoy it :)
DX10? We have absolutely no idea, as we don't even have anything to test with.
vs. R600? Again. we have absolutely no idea, as we don't have anything to test against. And from the perspective of most of us in this forum, this is what is most important. Most of us can't afford top end, anyway. This is a terrible analogy to prove your point. While Ferraris may be great cars, they are stupidly overpriced. I can buy a Mitsubishi EVO for $30k, dump another $20k into it, and completely embarrass ANY Ferarri, and spend 1/12 the money doing it. Hmmmm, waitaminute, you just made an argument FOR ATI/AMD. Weird.