The new ForceWare drivers have already disclosed Nvidia’s plans regarding the launch of the new product on G80 chipset that is known as GeForce 8800 Ultra. While the forum members were guessing if it would be a slower card than the GeForce 8800 GTS or an overclocked version of the GeForce 8800 GTX, NGOHQ site reported that according to some Nvidia’s partners GeForce 8800 Ultra would be launched together with the GeForce 8600, GeForce 8500, GeForce 8400 and GeForce 8300. In other words, on April 17, 2007.
GeForce 8800 Ultra will really be Nvidia’s response to ATI R600, however the specifications of the new cards haven’t been revealed yet. Most sources, however, believe that GeForce 8800 Ultra will run at higher clock speed than GeForce 8800 GTX and may feature GDDR-4 instead of GDDR-3 memory onboard with the corresponding frequency increase. However, even today Foxconn Company is already offering an overclocked GeForce 8800 GTX with GDDR-3 memory working at 2100MHz frequency. We dare suppose that they will select fast memory like GDDR-3 for the new GeForce 8800 Ultra as well.
Some Nvidia’s partners are also claimed to have promised to introduce an AGP version of the GeForce 7900 GS and GeForce 7950 GT solutions. In other words, XFX will no longer be the only Nvidia partner to offer graphics cards like that.
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There have been reports about an 8800 version with more shaders, 160 in total. It should be the same chip as the GTX with 128 shaders. The extra logic is already there, just unused, or maybe waiting for better yields. This could be the new ultra. I fear it will be prohibitively expensive...
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Posted by: gerben
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Date: 03/16/07 10:13:03 PM]
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Possibly. I think Nvidia's strategy is somewhat different though. I believe the 8800 Ultra will simply be an 8800 GTX with faster clockspeeds and faster memory.
They'll launch the 8900 series with the extra shaders, wider memory interface etc. (Guessing, we have no idea what's disabled really) when they need to. You can expect this to be ASAP after the R600 launch if the R600 is faster than the 8800 Ultra by a significant margin. If the R600's lead is small, or non existent, then I wouldn't expect the 8900 for a while.
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Posted by: Wizzard
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Date: 03/18/07 06:09:03 AM]
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The R600 chip will be better than the G80 chip anyways, just by looking at the specs, all these features in the R600, like 65nm, this card just has more memory bandwidth to fill in that 74 GB/s vs that 148/GBs. I'm not worried about it, I will still be getting an R600, this is just Nvidias way of trying to close the gap a bit more. Which is what a company supposed to do, right?
This is starting to look like an 8900, but a kind of a card that's in between the 8800 and the 8900, it makes logical sense. The R600 will still hold the lead, it looks powerful enough to handle another card on them, and I still wonder how much this card will cost anyways.
This is going to be a huge DX10 battle next month man, you will have the high end cards battling eachother, the R600 will come in and stir the pot, then you will have mid-range and now that all R600's are 65nm, these companies are going to push eachother around.
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Posted by: Cameron
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Date: 03/17/07 08:02:06 AM]
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Those 65nm might just be rumors.
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Posted by: iioeo
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Date: 03/21/07 05:41:31 PM]
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R600 - pussy.
G80 - penis.
The pussy will be better than the penis anyways, just by looking at the specs, all these features in the pussy, like how tight it is, this sexual organ has more cum bandwidth to fill in that 74 cumloads/sec vs that 148 cumloads/sec. I'm not worried about it, I will still be getting a pussy, this is just a man's way of trying to close the gap a bit more. Which is what males are supposed to do, right?
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Posted by: pussy galore
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Date: 03/17/07 09:58:09 AM]
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shutup
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Posted by: Cameron
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Date: 03/17/07 11:10:17 AM]
Wow good one.....
Yeah what I said is a little fanboyish, but if your joke was actually refering to real life (I'm not sure if it is or not), it would actually make sense.
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Posted by: Cameron
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Date: 03/17/07 11:14:48 AM]
You like to twirl a cucumber up your arse,
before eating it.
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Posted by: hhj
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Date: 03/21/07 05:40:26 PM]
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the pussy and penis quote was quite the funny young chap, quite the funny indeed. i'm going to call my wife over here to read it. boy things have changed these days.
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Posted by: lol
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Date: 03/18/07 01:10:03 AM]
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Being an nVIDIA fanboy I will always buy nVIDIA products only because they are of much better quality than ATI's(Now AMD).
So in any case nVIDIA will be getting my cush for this 8800 Ultra.
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Posted by: Erik Larsson
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Date: 03/20/07 09:57:13 AM]
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I'm just waiting for ATi to give nVidia to launch midrange DX10 cards so nVidia can't keep a 8800GTX-only monopoly for the DX10 market.
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Posted by: MonkRX
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Date: 03/23/07 02:51:27 AM]
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Hope we'll have nice prices on those midrange products as many people out there need to upgrade to DirectX10 hardware as we some nice DX10 comming out..Just thing of "CRYSIS",this baby is gonna make you by a new DX10 GPU sooner rather than later..Oh Yummy...
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Posted by: Erik Larsson
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Date: 03/24/07 09:08:35 AM]
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I think nVIDIA needs to move its entire 8800 lineup to 65nm process technolology making them cost efficient.I'm saying this because I think
~700 million transistors on a 90nm process is just insane from cost and power consumption prespectives.Maybe we'll have this transition by the time the 8900 series (or whatever) makes it to the market later this year.
By then have a nice day everyone!!
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Posted by: Erik Larsson
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Date: 03/24/07 11:31:21 AM]
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This is a real date or is it gonna be changed?
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Posted by: Trunkz Jr
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Date: 03/27/07 11:54:26 AM]
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It seems that Apple TV does not perform well on some HD TVs which should be fixed, because not everyone has bought a HD TV at home.
My apple tv converter
http://www.apple-tv-converter.net
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Posted by: wifi
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Date: 03/27/07 07:13:11 PM]
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its 4/17/07 where is it!
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Posted by: needtoknow
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Date: 04/17/07 11:58:51 AM]
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I Agree!!!! "10. its 4/17/07 where is it! "
Whats the deal!!??!!
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Posted by: WhaDaFk
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Date: 04/17/07 05:33:32 PM]
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