DailyTech Digest: GeForce 8800 Ultra for $999

[Kougar]

NVIDIA has one more hurrah on the "G80" processor

Shortly after the mid-range GeForce 8000-series launch, NVIDIA has another trick up its sleeve: the GeForce 8800 Ultra.

Roadmaps provided by NVIDIA reveal the 8800 Ultra will launch on May 1 with a price point of $999. The company would not reveal further specifications about the card, other than it is based on the same G80 core found in the GeForce 8800 GTX.

The $999 price point suggests the 8800 Ultra may actually be two 8800-series cards in one package. NVIDIA launched the multi-PCB initiative GeForce 7950 GX2 last year as the last high-end push on the GeForce 7000-series GPU.

Full news brief here, but the above is most of the info. http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=6826&red=y#125821 (http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=6826&red=y#125821)

Right now I have to agree. $999 is the price of two 8800GTX cards, or 4 8800GTS cards... $300 above G80 MSRP is to much for a simple overclock with GDDR4 mem, so this is very likely going to be a "7950GX2" similar deal...

[Scott]

I really hate people that break NVIDIA's NDA's.

[XJnine]

Given how big the 8800GTX's are I couldn't imagine how they could squeeze two of these GPU's and the memory onto a single card and not require a refrigerator box for a case.

Who knows.. If the card actually is 2 GPU's I bet they are going wide vs long.

[werty316]

For $999 it better have two cores :jawdrop:

[Bio-Hazard]

Way way out of my price range reguardless of that it has installed...............:(

[Pat123]

$999 is way outta most peoples price range, i could understand if it was something that would change ur life but at the end of the day its only plastic.. lol.. im all for spending my money on computing but when the gfx card alone starts costing as much a half decent pc all beit non-gaming its silly. Then some people always gotta have the best lol.. And if you have the money why not..

[sushrukh]

Ya, it seems way to pricey for most people.8800 Ultra will have 2 graphics core ? R u sure ? I've read that the ist dual core on a single card from the DX10 series will be the 8950GX2.

[werty316]

Anything you hear/read is just speculation so we won't know the specs for sure until the 8800Ultra is out.

[Kougar]

I've read that to, but right now much of the info purported around, such as the ATI and Nvidia R600 and 8900 series charts, was proven to be either rumor, or was the "current snapshopt" of what the company was planning at that point or a previous point in time which was changed at a later date.

The guy to did this article is pretty sure of it, and I have to agree you don't sell a factory overclocked card with faster RAM for a $400 price premium over MSRP of the original identical part. My impression was his information was taken directly from nVidia's roadmaps, but I couldn't find them to check for myself.

[PP Mguire]

Yea, but if it had 2 GPUs it would most likely have GX2 on the end of it.

[sushrukh]

Yea, that's what i was tryin' to say.

[Scott]

I want 2 of them please.

[tomato]

Wow, what a rip-off :( No thanks, I'll pass on this one.

[raidersforever01]

Wow that price is just bad. Yet i am not surprised, the prices just keep getting worse and worse.

I want 2 of them please.

So one for me and one for you. You rock Scott yourock:

[werty316]

The cat is out of the bag, supposely.
Geforce 8800Ultra confirmed: Expect Reviews on May 1st and aavailablity May 15th

On a Conf Call with Nvidia now, release of 8800Ultra is confirmed, Specs, later.

Confirmed a single chip card.

Expect Reviews on May 1st and aavailablity May 15th

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=142641

8800 Ultra to arrive on May Day - With a spectacular price tag

Whilst we're pretty sure that chaps on conference calls aren't supposed to talk about this stuff, the 8800 is 'confirmed' as a single-chip card, rather than the dual-chip hybrid SLI-a-like rumoured 8950 GX2. We suspect this is because Nvidia has had more than enough trouble getting SLI working on Vista, without releasing a product that relies on it for baseline performance

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38814

[sushrukh]

Ye, 8800 Ultra is a single chip card which also confirmed by the Ocworkbench here (http://my.ocworkbench.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=61774).

[werty316]

If it costs $999, the specs better be good.

[sushrukh]

I think $999 isn't the actual price.It should be a rumour.For a single chip card,price shouldn't be so high.