IF Geforce FX 5800 Ultra is dead, then it means also that the 500Mhz certified cores had some serious problem running stable with conventional cooling methods in order to meet NVIDIAs approval.
It is possible Nvidia to clock these cores (and maybe some of the regular 5800-cores) to 450Mhz (with conventional cooling method) and still combine them with 500Mhz DDR2 (effectively 1GHz) memory modules.
This is something that makes sense, since 3,6Gigapixel (450Mhzx8 pixel units) will still be too much for 16Gb memory bandwidth (all FX 5800 tests confirm this), at least in this current Gpu design (NV30).
The performance difference between this and FX5800 Ultra should't be more than 5% in no-antialiasing-anisotropic game tests with no difference at all on antialiasing-anisotropic game tests
So maybe we 'll have FX5800 PRO after all (I hope for 349$).
It is possible Nvidia to clock these cores (and maybe some of the regular 5800-cores) to 450Mhz (with conventional cooling method) and still combine them with 500Mhz DDR2 (effectively 1GHz) memory modules.
This is something that makes sense, since 3,6Gigapixel (450Mhzx8 pixel units) will still be too much for 16Gb memory bandwidth (all FX 5800 tests confirm this), at least in this current Gpu design (NV30).
The performance difference between this and FX5800 Ultra should't be more than 5% in no-antialiasing-anisotropic game tests with no difference at all on antialiasing-anisotropic game tests
So maybe we 'll have FX5800 PRO after all (I hope for 349$).
