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Thursday, May 3, 2007
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Right after the Internet was set abuzz with news that the new ATI Radeon HD X2000 series of graphics cards will be launched on May 14th, NVIDIA launches a preemptive strike by launching a new flagship card, the GeForce 8800 Ultra. Designed to replace the GeForce 8800 GTX as the new top-end graphics card from NVIDIA, the GeForce 8800 Ultra seems destined to be the card that kills the ATI Radeon HD X2900 before it is even released. However, the picture isn't as rosy as it seems. Read on and find out why the new NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra will not be a card we have all been waiting for.
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In the best traditions of upsetting the competitor, NVIDIA launches a faster-clocked GeForce 8800 to counteract any performance announcements for AMD's R600.
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Wednesday, May 2, 2007
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The GeForce 8800 Ultra takes the world's fastest GPU and pushes it further: with a core clock of 612 MHz, a shader clock of 1500MHz and a memory clock of 1080MHz. The GeForce 8800 Ultra costs 36% more and has a performance improvement of 10.7% over the GeForce 8800 GTX. Will consumers cough up 36% more for something ~11% faster? Only time will tell and since NVIDIA has a product that can't be beat by anything that ATI has on the market they have the ability to keep pushing prices up.
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There's nothing more to really say about GeForce 8800 Ultra without repeating ourselves. It's definitely not a graphics card for everyone, but if you're looking for the fastest graphics card on the planet and have a monitor that can show the benefits of its power, you don't need to look much further than Nvidia's GeForce 8800 Ultra.
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