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Computex 2005: NVIDIA holding back an Ultra G70?

by Ryszard Sommefeldt on 1 June 2005, 00:00

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NVIDIA holding back an Ultra G70?

NVIDIA holding back an Ultra G70?




NVIDIA's G70 graphics processor, likely to be bound up in a range of products carrying GeForce 7 branding, may have an Ultra version waiting in the wings, to counter any ATI high-end product launch. Current speculation, in advance of an announcement, points to there being GeForce 7800 GT and GeForce 7800 GTX products on launch, with the GTX moniker said to replace the Ultra branding NVIDIA have used for so long, as the flagship SKU.

This hack smells a rat with that suggestion, and I get the distinct impression from talking to certain industry insiders at Computex that they're holding back a no-holds-barred Ultra SKU, packed with 512MiB of framebuffer and clocks to shame the GTX, while they wait and see what ATI push out with their R520 graphics processor.

The irony is that ATI are likely to do something very similar with their PRO, XT and XT PE variants of whatever product R520 will end up powering. My money is on X900.



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Hey there, Pureoverclock were (i think) the first to mention this about an Ultra version: http://www.pureoverclock.com/story.php?id=222

Perhaps you could link to pureoverclock in this article for getting the story out first. Btw, yes, i do run the site. Just wondering…..

Thanks.
Well we didn't claim it was exclusive info, so I don't see a problem with you guys being first to obtain said news. As for linkage, I've found the e-mail in my news inbox from you originally breaking the story, which was filtered into the wrong folder, hence why I never posted it up. Let's leave your above link in and call us even :P :)
no prob :cool: