The Return of the Ultra

Posted By: Michael Thomas - 12:54:36 Mon, March 05, 2007

It seems nVidia is indeed planning to counter the impending R600 launch sometime in the near future. VR-Zone noticed the following entry in inf file of the latest nVidia drivers:

NVIDIA_G80.DEV_0194.1 = "NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra"

Judging from the fact that it says G80 and not G81, I'm betting the Ultra will be a minor speed bump on the core, but will probably use GDDR4 memory and get a boost in speed there as well.

7 Comments

Monday, March 05, 2007 6:55:41 PM

Steve
The Progenitor

Booyah! I hope that card comes soon so I can trade up using the Evga program! I am going to be buying the Evga 8800 GTS 320MB this month.

Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:24:09 AM

Track
guest

That's AWFUL. All those people who bought the 8800 *GTX* and trusted the suffix "GTX" to be the best are going to be Majorly let down.
Also, the 7800 GTX 512 is not going to be better than the X1800XT with it's lower process and higher memory bandwidth.

Tuesday, March 06, 2007 9:15:02 PM

Mike
GPUReview Founder

@Track: Anyone who thinks releasing a faster video card makes a manufacturer of fast video cards "AWFUL", is a complete idiot.

Furthermore, anyone who buys a video card thinking it's going to be the best for any more than a couple of months is also an idiot.

Wednesday, March 07, 2007 12:39:18 PM

anonymous
guest

I'm hoping a new card will come out by Summer.....thats upgrade season!!!

Thursday, March 08, 2007 1:57:51 PM

David
Senior Member

Nice. I wonder if the gtx's are gonna be cheaper?

Friday, March 09, 2007 7:07:00 PM

ryokinshin
guest

uh huh, anyways cards get major changes every 6 months, with small updates every few months, this is expeted of the industry

Friday, March 16, 2007 6:03:54 PM

Darkslayer
guest

@ David: Aye, I hope this is the case. I wouldn't mind picking up one of those for less then a small fortune lol

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