Nvidia introduces world's fastest GPU: the GeForce 8800 Ultra

Posted May 2, 2007 at 10:38AM by Karl B. Listed in: Hardware Tags: DirectX, GPU, Intel, Microsoft, motherboards, nVidia

Nvidia today introduced their latest offering: the Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra. Those of you who keep up with hardware and graphics chip news would know that this new graphics processing unit is being touted as the new holder of the "world's fastest GPU" title.

Here's the skinny on the new GeForce 8800 Ultra:

The GeForce 8800 Ultra performs an average of between 10 and 15% faster than the GeForce 8800 GTX GPU, previously considered the fastest GPU on the planet, across a wide range of top games and applications.
Nvidia nForce 680i SLI-based motherboards for Intel processors provide the fastest and most feature-rich platform for the GeForce 8800 Ultra.
GeForce 8 Series GPUs are the first shipping DirectX 10 GPUs and are the reference GPUs for Microsoft DirectX 10 API development.

Graphics cards equipped with the Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU and 768MB of video memory will be available worldwide by May 15 for around Â€699 (US$ 950).

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by - 2007-05-02 11:10:44

dx10

first and worth it dx10 fat card

by - 2007-05-02 19:28:31

Wait

There's nothing good to use this with yet. I shall wait till I can unleash the power, or at least most of it.

by - 2007-05-03 01:11:56

8800GTX

I'm happy with my 8800GTX so no need to upgrade to an ultra. True it was the most expensive component in my machine, twice as expensive as my E6600 CPU but the performance on older games like Oblivion and Gothic 3 make it well worth buying now.

by - 2007-05-03 15:57:32

wow, this is genius

1000 bucks for a video card... man this whole PC gaming thing is really unattractive...

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