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8800 Ultra Pre Orders

willhub said:
Wait a min, wasent there some info about the Ultras using different G80 cores aswell?
A new revision G80-450-A3 vs the GTX G80-300-A2. Slightly less power consumption at those higher clocks, so should clock higher. But £150 higher? They're having a laugh.

BTW, 0.8ns memory confirmed on the EVGA retail. Good for 2500Mhz tight latencies, not cheap.

 
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Wonder how many pre-orders ocuk have for this so far, always has to be a few people who are on gtx's and will want this for the vastly noticible difference in framerate.
 
The Halk said:
Tested my GTX last night and it's stable at 661 on the core.

That speed of 661 is actually 648 - look at the hardware monitoring screen in Rivatuner, and you'll see the true speeds. All core/stream/memory clocks are divisible by 27, which is the reference clock speed.

My GTX at 648/2052 would most likely out perform the ultra. The only way they may be slightly worthwhile is if they oc up to (or over) 700 on the core, which I seriously doubt, although 2500 on the memory would be good :D
 
spb251272 said:
Well if that's typical, then they may be worth the money after all, or at least after a bit of a price drop anyway
Typical? Too soon to tell, but there will be a few new records with choice cards. Keep any eye open for k|ngp|n's orb scores, but then again he gets them for nothing. I'll stick with my GTX for now.
 
xtr3eme said:
I think this will be 7800GTX 512Mb all over again....They were silly amounts of money too.

But as I recall the 7800GTX 512mb was a fair bit faster than the standard 7800GTX and also had a better cooler plus twice as much ram.

Imho, if the Ultra can clock significantly higher than the GTX and be priced more modestly, it shouldn't be too bad. You've got to remember that this the extreme end of the spectrum we're talking about here, spending silly amounts of money for small gains isn't uncommon; getting the best possible overclocks is what matters.
 
I'm shocked that the manufacturers (BFG etc) are actually going along with this.

In terms of real world performance this offers virtually nothing over current lines. For an extra £150 in Brit money.

What a con.
 
Not that I have 8800 been waiting to see what ATI bring as I in no big hurry to by new card nore at this point with games I play need new one

But hasnt every been moaning about the state of the Nvidia drives with the 8800S so why shell out all that cash and have bad support fore it ??
 
thing is, as has been said on Anandtech, if the purpose is that the new revision has better silicon for OCing, then why not give it a higher stock clock (for those that dont like to overclock parts worth £500+), let the card manufacturers define their own clocks, like with the overclocked GTXs, or stick at GTX speeds and market them as extreme user overclocking cards.

meh, nice to se Nv is working very hard to catch up with ATI on the screw-up front!
 
Azza said:
Like getting rid of it completley.

What the hell was the point of this thing any way, they own the high end market right now and have done so since the 8 series cards came out.

They must have some pretty insane people working for them.

Maybe they have some spies at ATi and feel that this won't compete... a kind of 'chuck it out now, let some people waste their money on it... we'll beat ATi with the 89's...' :rolleyes:
 
There's something truly mental going on with the pricing though. US LIST price is $830 or £415 - even allowing for VAT added on that's still only £488 so not only is the price a stupid rip-off in the US, it's little short of outrageous in the UK. The list on the BFG 650/2000 Danger Den card is £528 for goodness sakes and this is slower than that. Ridiculous.
 
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