Gainward, XFX Show Off 512MB Graphics Cards

Two premium partners of NVIDIA Corp. – Gainward and XFX – are showcasing their GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics cards with 512MB of memory. The boards from both makers are among the highest-performing produced today and are expected to deliver absolutely highest performance when working in multi-GPU SLI mode.

Gainward will sell a bundle of two GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB graphics cards, which also run at higher speeds than NVIDIA suggests – 450MHz/1200MHz as opposed to 400MHz/1100MHz for core/memory – for whopping 1100 Euro. This is a kind of a luxury that very few computer enthusiasts can afford, but Gainward believes there is still a market for this type of solutions.

According to Gainward, it still needs some time to tweak the BIOS on its GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB graphics cards, but even now the boards operate well enough. Hans-Wolfram Tismer, the head of the company, said 512MB onboard memory buffer gives a rather significant speed boost once 1600x1200 resolution with FSAA 4x and 16x anisotropic filtering are activated in the latest games.