Geforce 8800 Ultra

GeForce 8800 Ultra to Come Out on April 17 - X-bit labs

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.

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. 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? 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.

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