NVIDIA announce GeForce 8800 Ultra

Wednesday 02nd May 2007, 07:07:00 PM, written by Rys

Resurrecting a SKU descriptor they last rolled out over three years ago with NV40 and GeForce 6800 Ultra, NVIDIA have announced the pending availability of the GeForce 8800 Ultra. With the same PCB, memory arrangement and GPU setup as GeForce 8800 GTX, the Ultra bests GTX in clocks and cooler only. We've spent a little time with a board over the last day or so, looking at general performance and power consumption, the latter being a selling point according to NVIDIA.

Read our launch day article, and our Hexian friends have had a look as well, taking in performance over a wider range of games and test settings than we managed to.

"Does the hardware deserve its lofty price tag?", is the question of the day.

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