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Author: Whoopty
Posted: 23:00, May 24th 2007
Link: http://www.evga.com
Score: 8 out of 10 [?]
Price: £550

8800 Ultra Superclocked Review

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

  • 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

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