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press release - NEW 512MB NVIDIA® GeForce 6800 Ultra

post #1 of 16
3/10/05 at 8:19pm
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It's only getting better...

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March 10, 2005—NVIDIA Corporation, a worldwide leader in graphics and digital media processors, today expands its award-winning NVIDIA GeForce 6 Series of graphics processing units (GPUs) by unveiling two new products which includes a 512MB version of the performance-leading GeForce 6800 Ultra....

NVIDIA 512MB DDR3 GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU provides faster frame rates at higher resolutions and color depths and double the memory for geometry data and textures. The 512MB DDR3 GeForce 6800 Ultra GPU also features SLI technology to deliver an ultimate gaming supercomputer for the extreme gamer.

These new GPUs are shipping now from NVIDIA and are expected to be available from numerous partners in April.

source: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_19395.html
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post #2 of 16
3/10/05 at 8:29pm
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post #3 of 16
3/10/05 at 8:34pm
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maybe we can upgrade XPS2 w/ 512MB DDR3 GeForce 6800 Ultra before XPS2 ships
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post #4 of 16
3/10/05 at 8:34pm
Not a GeForce Go. It is in response to ATI X850 512mb desktop gpu.
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post #5 of 16
3/10/05 at 8:55pm
yes, it is not a go, it is a 6 series nvidia card. Check the desktop sections for info on the ati.
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post #6 of 16
3/10/05 at 9:18pm
Loks like the Go 6800 Ultra will be crushed very soon by its desktop brethren. . .

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post #7 of 16
3/10/05 at 9:43pm
what the heck 512mb gpus tik tik that's too heavy
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post #8 of 16
3/10/05 at 9:48pm
Will an extra 256MB on the GPU really DO anything? I thought I remember benchmarks showing that extra memory on graphics boards is rarely used...maybe the next generation of games will take advantage (i.e. 2006)? Then again, I don't have any data on hand...anybody find a link to a comparison? Anyhow, I hope Dell waits until the end of the year to offer a GPU upgrade and offers the next-gen GO card rather than a simple memory increase...

In fact, I'm hoping that PCIe sticks around for awhile and allows for *several* graphics card upgrades on the XPS2 over the coming 2 years or so...would be much better than hitting the chipset-architectural 'brick wall' like with the XPS1 and its 'old' AGP interface...could conceivably make the XPS2 worth hanging onto for longer than a year...
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post #9 of 16
3/10/05 at 9:58pm
agreeed!
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post #10 of 16
3/10/05 at 11:28pm
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Originally Posted by hammermd
Will an extra 256MB on the GPU really DO anything? I thought I remember benchmarks showing that extra memory on graphics boards is rarely used...maybe the next generation of games will take advantage (i.e. 2006)? Then again, I don't have any data on hand...anybody find a link to a comparison? Anyhow, I hope Dell waits until the end of the year to offer a GPU upgrade and offers the next-gen GO card rather than a simple memory increase...

In fact, I'm hoping that PCIe sticks around for awhile and allows for *several* graphics card upgrades on the XPS2 over the coming 2 years or so...would be much better than hitting the chipset-architectural 'brick wall' like with the XPS1 and it's 'old' AGP interface...could conceivably make the XPS2 worth hanging onto for longer than a year...

The extra 256 MBs will do alot in games like Doom III which use a considerable amount of graphic memory in ultra quality settings.
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post #11 of 16
3/10/05 at 11:53pm
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Originally Posted by hammermd
Will an extra 256MB on the GPU really DO anything? I thought I remember benchmarks showing that extra memory on graphics boards is rarely used...maybe the next generation of games will take advantage (i.e. 2006)? Then again, I don't have any data on hand...anybody find a link to a comparison? Anyhow, I hope Dell waits until the end of the year to offer a GPU upgrade and offers the next-gen GO card rather than a simple memory increase...

In fact, I'm hoping that PCIe sticks around for awhile and allows for *several* graphics card upgrades on the XPS2 over the coming 2 years or so...would be much better than hitting the chipset-architectural 'brick wall' like with the XPS1 and it's 'old' AGP interface...could conceivably make the XPS2 worth hanging onto for longer than a year...

heres some info, for the ati card though.
its not a significant increase in performance, but then again the nvidia camp might be takng a whole different approach to the vram .http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/d...228021302.html
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post #12 of 16
3/11/05 at 11:30am
It might not make much difference right now - but I guarantee that programmers will soon start taking advantage of it. New software often adapts to push the newest hardware to its limits.
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post #13 of 16
3/11/05 at 11:35am
And sometimes the other way around - cards also adapt to suit games better.
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post #14 of 16
3/11/05 at 11:37am
Would games that do alot of texture swapping be helped by these larger mem sizes? I would assume the amount of memory used by the texture cache is larger?
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post #15 of 16
3/11/05 at 3:38pm
That extra memory really helps out when you use 4x or better Anti-aliasing with 8x or 16x anisotropy at 1600x1200. What's funny is that the 256mb GeForce 6800 ultra's were already good enough at that resolution, so I'm guessing 512mb isn't going to do anything. But hey, it just drives prices down.
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post #16 of 16
3/11/05 at 5:26pm
i have the x800xt (pci-e) in my desktop and it's fine..for now.. they will always come up with better stuff
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