Introduction
There are some advantages to being a reviewer. One of these is getting to review the fastest graphics cards the world has to offer and in the last couple of weeks I’ve been lucky enough to have a look at two. The second card is this one, an 8800 Ultra from PNY. Is the performance worth the monster price tag? Let’s see.
Features
- NVIDIA® unified architecture with GigaThread™ technology
- Full Microsoft® DirectX® 10 Shader Model 4.0 support
- NVIDIA SLI™-Ready
- 16x full-screen anti-aliasing
- True 128-bit floating point high dynamic-range (HDR) lighting
- NVIDIA Quantum Effects™ physics processing technology
- Two dual-link DVI outputs support two 2560×1600 resolution displays
- NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD technology1
- HDCP Capable2
- PCI Express® support
- OpenGL® 2.0 support
- NVIDIA® ForceWare® Unified Driver Architecture (UDA)
- Built for Microsoft® Windows Vista™
- Outputs: DVI+DVI+HDTV/S-Video
Specifications
| BUS Technology | PCI Express |
| Memory Amount | 768MB |
| Memory Interface | 384-bit |
| Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) | 103.7 |
| Fill Rate (billion pixels/sec.) | 39.2 |
| Stream Processors | 128 |
| Shader Clock (MHz) | 1500MHz |
| Core Clock (MHz) | 621MHz |
| Memory Frequency (effective) | 2160MHz |
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