September 30th, 2008

GeForce 8800 Ultra – the official premiere

NVIDIA today has officially presented its fastest GPU GeForce 8800 Ultra. The new cards based on a GeForce 8800 Ultra to be faster on average from 10 to 15% lower than the standard series GeForce 8800 GTX, now considered to be the fastest GPU on the planet.

8800 Ultra is not, however, nothing extraordinary offer nVidia. In fact, the tab even higher frequencies, GPU could have been for some time to find offered by Asus – GeForce 8800 GTX AquaTank typically strong is the frequency 630/1030 MHz.

The specification of the new system:
# Number of Stream Processors: 128 (unchanged)
# GPU clock: 612 MHz (575MHz in the 8800 GTX)
# Shader frequency (ext): 1500 MHz
# Memory frequency: 1080 MHz (900 MHz in the 8800 GTX)
# Amount of memory on the card: 768MB of GDDR3 (unchanged)
# Latitude railhead data memory: 384-bit (unchanged)
# Bandwidth memory: 103.7 GB / sec.
# The rate of filling (Texture Fill Rate): 39.2 billion / sec.

The only change in relation to the series 8800 GTX, are higher GPU and memory clocks, which provide higher performance carry out the card and przeputowość memory.

Graphics cards equipped with a GPU NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra, and 768 MB of video memory will be available in the global network of sales from 15 May 2007 premiere of the partners of NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra, for example, Company Asus, BFG, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision, Leadtek, MSI, PNY, Point of View, Sparkle and XFX.