8600 Ultra

[deathwalker]

When the 8600 series was first announced there was mention of a Ultra series in the plans for this card. Does anyone really think we will actually ever see a Ultra in the 8600 series and if so when might it happen? Also will it really any kind of a significant improvement to the somewhat dissapointing performance of the current highest performing GTS line of 8600's?

 

[HardWarrior]

I really doubt it. The "Ultra" label shouldn't, IMO, be used to reflag cards that were never designed to be top performers.

 

[dug777]

Given the underwhelming crapness of the 8600s, i hope not

 

[A554SS1N]

GTX is still available, they should use that instead of Ultra.


Besides, a better idea would be to release 256-bit memory 8700's in about six months time.

 

[postmortemIA]

I don't ge that 128-bit memory game that ati and nvidia are playing with their midrange cards... put 256bit already!

 

[Gstanfor]

Both nvidia and ATi see the mobile (laptop) midrange market as more important to them than the midrange destop market, and their midrange gpu's were designed with that in mind. It will also be easier to provide better desktop performance at a given die size with refresh products on a smaller process.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: A554SS1N
GTX is still available, they should use that instead of Ultra.


Besides, a better idea would be to release 256-bit memory 8700's in about six months time.

You thinking an FX5600->FX5700-like shift?

 

[yacoub]

The 8600GTS should have had 256-bit memory bus and 64 stream processors. That is currently an open segment right now that many enthusiast gamers would love to see: A card that can actually perform really well in modern games for a good price (compared to the crap 8600GTS we got that can't even beat a 7900GT but they want to charge you as much for it). Something around MSRP $200 that offers those hardware specs is unavailable right now and would have no competition which means it could round up a lot of sales.

I guess what NVidia decided to do though, is drop the pricing on the 320MB GTS which is already pushing down into the $250 range, to try to bridge the gap.

 

[Shamrock]

I guess alot of people missed this?

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=2041489

Wait till June to see if this materializes. 256 bus and 512MB ram

Translated text:

In June I become information to us on a future revision from the GeForce 8600GTS being sent during the first week of June. This new revision would have a controller of memory able to handle these with a bandwidth of 256-bit. This in comparison to the present model of 128-bit would duplicate effective bandwidth between graphical processor and the memory attack to same operating frequency. The new model of GeForce 8600GTS civil employee to the same frequency of nucleus and memories, nevertheless the reference model in addition would have 512MB of memory, thus duplicating not only bandwidth to memories but also the capacity of storage. It is to hope that one is a launching with noise during Computex - the fair of computer science of Taipei - since the dates ironically agree.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: Shamrock
I guess alot of people missed this?

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=31&threadid=2041489

Wait till June to see if this materializes. 256 bus and 512MB ram

Translated text:

In June I become information to us on a future revision from the GeForce 8600GTS being sent during the first week of June. This new revision would have a controller of memory able to handle these with a bandwidth of 256-bit. This in comparison to the present model of 128-bit would duplicate effective bandwidth between graphical processor and the memory attack to same operating frequency. The new model of GeForce 8600GTS civil employee to the same frequency of nucleus and memories, nevertheless the reference model in addition would have 512MB of memory, thus duplicating not only bandwidth to memories but also the capacity of storage. It is to hope that one is a launching with noise during Computex - the fair of computer science of Taipei - since the dates ironically agree.

damn those civil servants...... the bane of the uk those guys are and theyre all inept!