Death of the 8800ULTRA?

[ArchAngel777]

Newegg used to have about 7-8 8800 Ultras on their website, now there is only one, and it is a BFG with a water block... Is this a sign that the new 8800GTS is displacing it? Or is it a sign something better is coming out shortly? Maybe the webpage is glitching? I find it interesting...

 

[JAG87]

GTX and Ultra are EOL in January. etailers are not ordering anymore once they run out.

 

[taltamir]

Nor CAN they order more... they don't manufacture them anymore. And eventually stock runs out.

However in 6 days the new GTSv3 comes out and it is supposedly right between a GTX and ultra in performance with MSRP 300-350$... even price gouged it is a lot better deal the a 700$ ultra or a 500$ GTX.

And the 1GB version coming soon should outperform the ultra in super intense games like crysis (read, games where the extra performance is actually NEEDED)

 

[JAG87]

Originally posted by: taltamir
Nor CAN they order more... they don't manufacture them anymore. And eventually stock runs out.

However in 6 days the new GTSv3 comes out and it is supposedly right between a GTX and ultra in performance with MSRP 300-350$... even price gouged it is a lot better deal the a 700$ ultra or a 500$ GTX.

And the 1GB version coming soon should outperform the ultra in super intense games like crysis (read, games where the extra performance is actually NEEDED)

negative, the 256bit bus will cripple that card and the GTX Ultra will still top it in high res w/AA situations.

Im not gonna waste anymore time on people who worship the 256bit bus, you will find out for yourself the hard way. All you are doing is paying extra for 512mb of vram.

Think of it this way, people = data, ram = cars, 256bit bus = 4 lanes, 384bit bus = 6 lanes, which scenario will bring people to work faster? Whats the point of adding more cars to the 4 lane highway? Is it really going to make things go faster?

 

[taltamir]

oh stop it with the stupid analogies; cars are cars and video bus speed is video bus speed.

I am not just throwing assumptions here based on specs. I am telling you what I saw on review sites, that the 8800GTSv3 outperformed the GTX in Crysis on max everything. Maybe they lied, as the NDA didn't lift there isn't enough data to corroborate.
My only assumption is that the 1GB of ram will give it an extra edge compared to the 512MB on the exact same card... And that is a pretty safe assumption. But even without it the difference is negligible and price is half.

 

[Cookie Monster]

So i presume G80 has finally reached EOL?

 

[Nanobaud]

Originally posted by: JAG87

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Think of it this way, people = data, ram = cars, 256bit bus = 4 lanes, 384bit bus = 6 lanes, which scenario will bring people to work faster? Whats the point of adding more cars to the 4 lane highway? Is it really going to make things go faster?

Depends on if there are more people (data) than the existing cars (memory) can contain and how crowded the highway (data fetching) is. Expanding to a 12-lane freeway from Cat Creek, Montana to Musselshell , while making for a titillating earmark, wouldn't really make that commute any faster.