Gaming
'World's fastest PC graphics card' planned
Published Thursday, May 3 2007, 12:53 BST | By David Gibbon
Manufacturer NVIDIA has released details of a new graphics card it describes as 'the world's fastest'.
The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra is far from cheap, costing a bank-breaking £476, but should help gamers with a 'money is no object' attitude enjoy state-of-the-art PC games at their best.
A spokesman for NVIDIA said, "The card performs an average of between 10 and 15% faster than the GeForce 8800 GTX GPU, previously considered the fastest GPU on the planet, across a wide range of top games and applications."
NVIDIA's new card will support video playback for Blu-ray and HD DVD content and the firm claims it will enable PC gamers to own the 'definitive gaming platform'.
Ujesh Desai, general manager of desktop GPUs at NVIDIA, said, "The definitive gaming platform is built around the fastest components available and today there is no disputing those components include the GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU and an NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI-ready motherboard. The graphics industry evolves extremely quickly and it is quite an achievement when you can leapfrog your own performance milestones in succession like we have done with these GeForce 8 Series GPUs.”
The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra will be released May 15.
The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra is far from cheap, costing a bank-breaking £476, but should help gamers with a 'money is no object' attitude enjoy state-of-the-art PC games at their best.
A spokesman for NVIDIA said, "The card performs an average of between 10 and 15% faster than the GeForce 8800 GTX GPU, previously considered the fastest GPU on the planet, across a wide range of top games and applications."
NVIDIA's new card will support video playback for Blu-ray and HD DVD content and the firm claims it will enable PC gamers to own the 'definitive gaming platform'.
Ujesh Desai, general manager of desktop GPUs at NVIDIA, said, "The definitive gaming platform is built around the fastest components available and today there is no disputing those components include the GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU and an NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI-ready motherboard. The graphics industry evolves extremely quickly and it is quite an achievement when you can leapfrog your own performance milestones in succession like we have done with these GeForce 8 Series GPUs.”
The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra will be released May 15.
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