Over a year and a half – that’s how long the GeForce 8800 GTX remained in the position of what could be called NVIDIA’s high-end GPU. Oh of course, six months after its release and – just a coincidence – just before the arrival of the R600 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R600 , we did get an 8800 Ultra with slightly higher clock speeds, but it was nothing revolutionary. Then two and a half months ago, the arrival of the 9800GTX awakened hopes of substantial performance increases, but in the end the card offered only limited gains over the good old GTX , and was behind the Ultra version. For owners of these cards to be really happy with their investment, it was high time for NVIDIA to offer more than a few extra megahertz or to rely on pairing two GPUs on the same card.

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