8800 Ultra edition cards will be few and far between

[Nightmare225]

Originally posted by: Fallen Kell
Wow... I am actually glad the R600 is about to come out. This might force Nvidia to cut the price on this monster. The early benches on the R600 show it 25% faster then the 8800GTX. And since it will be at more normal prices (i.e. $500 or so) which is half the price of the 8800 Ultra, and still have the same or even more performance. It might force Nvidia to release their next batch of cards that are done (i.e. the full 8900 series, 8950 as well)

Link to the benchies which show a 25% improvement? CPU-limited 3DMark scores don't count, since that doesn't represent true game performance.

 

[Ackmed]

Bad news if true, but just wait for reviews and the launch. I have my doubts about their avail, but its pretty pointless to get all bothered about it right now.

Originally posted by: Pugnate

Originally posted by: dguy6789
Typical nVidia. They have done this quite often in the past. When the Radeon X800XT PE came out, it was superior to the 6800 Ultra. So nVidia launched a 6800 Ultra Extreme/6850 Ultra card to win benchies, but it was never really available. When the Radeon X1800XT came out and was slightly faster than the 7800GTX, nVidia released the 7800GTX 512, which was again there just to win benchmarks, next to nobody actually bought one. It comes as no surprise that nVidia will be releasing another ultra performance, zero availability card upon the launch of their competitor's new one.

Buddy I was with you till you discounted the 7800GTX 512. What do you mean no one bought it? It was widely available, sold well, and was a big improvement. It was a legit product, though I agree with you on some of the other stuff.

7800GTX 512MB widely available? Please. It was very, very hard to get, and only then at a price well over MSRP.

 

[BlizzardOne]

it was a good investment though at the time (sic)...

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
I think this is gonna be like the 6800U 512 MB: just there to win benchmarks and only reviewers will be able to get it.

 

[AmdInside]

Do you think NVIDIA is stupid? I wish there was a sticky INQ thread where people could post INQ links cause I am tired of every other thread being a stupid article from the INQ. No company is going to restrict manufacturing of a flaship product when there is demand for it. That would be stupid and something I would not expect of either NVIDIA or AMD/ATI. If NVIDIA or ATI spends hundreds of hours manufacturing a graphics card and developing drivers for it and branding and marketing it, they are going to lose major money if they limit sales to only 100 units. I swear common sense is so lacking on this forum. There are so many credible web sites out there that I really wonder why idiotic INQ links end up on Anandtech Video forums so often.

 

[Auric]

Nvidia isn't in the bidness of selling cards. Taint outlandish to speculate that if $1000 cards are produced in an extremely limited quality it is simply for prestige and the faux claim of being fastest. That doesn't mean there is profit in it for both Nvidia and their AIB pardners [sic]. Ergo, if they aren't actually available from various AIB's in volume then it is a sham. Even so, performance would have to live up to the price -over and above non-consumer cards.

 

[BFG10K]

Buddy I was with you till you discounted the 7800GTX 512. What do you mean no one bought it? It was widely available, sold well, and was a big improvement.

I could be mistaken but I'm pretty sure it had very limited supply and as a result very high prices.

 

[5150Joker]

Don't really care about an 8800 Ultra edition, I'm sure we could just OC our GTX's by a bit and get near that speed anyway. nVidia's true refresh will come when they die shrink the 8800 like they did for the 7800-->7900.

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
Bad news if true, but just wait for reviews and the launch. I have my doubts about their avail, but its pretty pointless to get all bothered about it right now.

Originally posted by: Pugnate

Originally posted by: dguy6789
Typical nVidia. They have done this quite often in the past. When the Radeon X800XT PE came out, it was superior to the 6800 Ultra. So nVidia launched a 6800 Ultra Extreme/6850 Ultra card to win benchies, but it was never really available. When the Radeon X1800XT came out and was slightly faster than the 7800GTX, nVidia released the 7800GTX 512, which was again there just to win benchmarks, next to nobody actually bought one. It comes as no surprise that nVidia will be releasing another ultra performance, zero availability card upon the launch of their competitor's new one.

Buddy I was with you till you discounted the 7800GTX 512. What do you mean no one bought it? It was widely available, sold well, and was a big improvement. It was a legit product, though I agree with you on some of the other stuff.

7800GTX 512MB widely available? Please. It was very, very hard to get, and only then at a price well over MSRP.

I thought the X800XT PE was the "phantom edition". With little or no availability.