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Author: Whoopty | ||
| Posted: 23:00, May 24th 2007 | |||
| Link: http://www.evga.com | |||
| Score: 8 out of 10 [?] | |||
| Price: £550 | |||
Introduction
For those that don't know, the performance graphics card market is dominated by two rivals; ATI and nVidia. These two companies constantly play the game of "One Upmanship" with each other and recently it has been no different. As ATI released - after much delay - their HD 2900 series of cards, Nvidia brought to the market a hugely overclocked 8800GTX card, known as the Ultra. This card promised monster performance that would keep Nvidia as the performance king for that bit longer. Today I have the Superclocked version of this card from EVGA; lets see how it does.
What's Different?
I am afraid to say there is nothing markedly different with the Ultra when compared to the bog standard GTX released around 6 months ago. It is however faster in core clock speed, memory clock speed and the shader clocks. This should equate for a nice performance increase over the standard GTX; lets just hope the price hike is worth it.
Specifications
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384-bit G80 core clocked at 612mhz
- 768mb 384 bit 0.8ns gddr3 memory clocked at 1080mhz
- 128 stream processors
- 103.68gb per second memory bandwidth
Features
- Nvidia unified architechture with gigathread technology
- DirectX 10 and shader model 4.0 support
- SLI ready
- 16x Anti Aliasing
- True 128 floating point HDR lighting
- "Quantum Effects" physics processing technology
- Pure Video technology
- OpenGL 2.0 support
Buy now
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