AOpen announced the introduction of the Aeolus 6800 Ultra DVD512MB, one of the most powerful video display cards in the world today. The high-end display card is built around NVIDIA's GeForce 6800 Ultra interface graphics chips, which is the most powerful video display chipset for the next generation gaming and 3D display requirements. The card is the first GeForce 6800 Ultra display card built with 512 megabytes of on-board memory.

According to Bernie Tsai, President of AOpen, the Aeolus 6800 Ultra will be one of AOpen's killer products in 2005.

The Aeolus 6800 Ultra display card powers the next generation of cinematic realism with NVIDIA CineFX 3.0 Technology. Its full support for Microsoft DirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 enables stunning ultra-realistic effects and complex special effects. Its next-generation shader architecture delivers faster and smoother gameplay.

The display card is built with NVIDIA UltraShadow II Technoloogy, which enhances the performance of bleeding-edge games, such as id Software's Doom III, which features complex scenes with multiple light sources and objects. It delivers more than four times the shadow processing power over the previous generation.

The product is the first to support the revolutionary NVIDIA PureVideo technology for home-theater quality video on the PC. It turns your PC into a high-end home theater in stunning high resolution with crystal-clear pictures and the ability to enhance videos to full resolution in high detail.

With the display card, a gamer can play such games including Battlefield Vietnam; Colin McRae Rally 04; Doom III; EverQuest II; Far Cry; Ground Control II: Operation Exodus; Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising; Lord of the Rings, the Battle for Middle-earth; Painkiller; Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow; Unreal Tournament 2004; and Xpand Rally.

The product is built with many other powerful features. The video scaling and filtering capability of the product improves video playback quality at any window size, including full-screen HDTV resolutions. It also ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL applications.

Because the display card is built with double date rate (DDR) memory from leading DDR manufacturers, the product provides faster frame rates at higher resolutions and color depths and double the memory for geometry data and textures. It also features SLI technology to deliver an ultimate gaming supercomputer for the extreme gamer.

Specifications of the 6800Ultra-DVD512

Core clock (MHz): 400
Effective memory interface: 256-bit
Effective memory size (MB): 512
Effective memory bandwidth (GB/sec): 33.6
Fill rate (billion texels/sec): 6.4
Max memory data rate (MHz): 1050
Vertices/sec (million): 600
Pixels per clock (peak): 16
Connectors: DVI, CRT, TV-out
Accessories: DVI adapter, HDTV cable, user manual, power cable
Games: Spell Force, Arx Fatalis, 5-in-1 demo game

Furthermore, the 6800Ultra-DVD512 supports
nVIDIA TurboCache technology
nVIDIA CineFX 3.0 engine
MicrosoftDirectX 9.0 Shader Model 3.0 support
OpenGL 1.5 optimizations and support
nVIDIA ForceWare Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
nVIDIA PureVideo technology
Integrated HDTV encoder
PCI Express support
nVIDIA nVIEW multi-display technology
Dual 400MHz RAMDACs
nVIDIA ForceWare Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)