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512MB GeForce 6800 Ultra Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the conspicuous-consumption dept.

Timmus writes "If you thought the $500 GeForce 6800 Ultra and $550 Radeon X850 XT PE were excessive, wait until you see nVidia's GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB: it officially retails for $999.99! Firingsquad has a review of the card manufactured by BFG. They ran tests with 6 different configurations (including a pair of 512MB cards running in SLI) with widescreen benchmarks at 1980x1200 as well."

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  1. Now can someone help me with this? by aliens · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This card costs $999 with 512MB DDR3, someone tell me how much the Xbox 360 comes with?

    See where I'm going with this? Just how big of a loss are Sony and MS willing to take with their consoles this time around? I mean either way the consumer wins out big.

    Even by the time winter rolls around you're not going to see this card or it's 256MB version for $50.

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    1. Re:Now can someone help me with this? by utexaspunk · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Just how big of a loss are Sony and MS willing to take with their consoles this time around?

      Maybe the better question is Just how much profit are the video card manufacturers making?

  2. 3 PS3s by mnmn · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So for that price, I can buy 3 PS3s, or a PS3 with a large TV, or a PS3 with LOTS of titles.

    I have a geforce4ti, and wonder why will I need more GPU power anyway. HL2 and doom3 run fine, and seem to need more memory and cpu bandwidths than triangle-pushers.

    Theres a major lackage of a physics processor right now. Given the nice placement of GPU cards... on a high bandwidth bus of the northbridge, I'd say put the physics chip on the video card. Otherwise on a PCIX card.

    Anyone care to comment where a card like this Geforce will be REQUIRED?

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  3. 512mb.. by fenrisjlk · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What do people not get? Seriously, it's not the amount of VRAM that is included in the card, but the speed of the GPU. I'd rather spend that grand on two equally powerful cards, or a dual GPU card.

  4. Re:Quick comment and mirrors by Proc6 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I agree. I have never understood the artifical and illogical "acceptable" price for things. Hardly anyone scoffs at $30,000 for a car, but mention spending $5,000 for a comfortable bed you'll rest in 8 hours a night, the effects of which will last all day, and people would think you've lost your mind. They'll spend $2000 on the fastest CPU that will sit idle in Microsoft Word, but suggest $1100 for a 24" widescreen LCD and people think that's an astronomical amount of money to spend on a monitor. I don't really get it.

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