Nvidia introduces world’s fastest GPU: the GeForce 8800 Ultra

Nvidia today introduced their latest offering: the Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra. Those of you who keep up with hardware and graphics chip news would know that this new graphics processing unit is being touted as the new holder of the “world’s fastest GPU” title.

Here’s the skinny on the new GeForce 8800 Ultra:

• The GeForce 8800 Ultra performs an average of between 10 and 15% faster than the GeForce 8800 GTX GPU, previously considered the fastest GPU on the planet, across a wide range of top games and applications.
• Nvidia nForce 680i SLI-based motherboards for Intel processors provide the fastest and most feature-rich platform for the GeForce 8800 Ultra.
• GeForce 8 Series GPUs are the first shipping DirectX 10 GPUs and are the reference GPUs for Microsoft DirectX 10 API development.

Graphics cards equipped with the Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU and 768MB of video memory will be available worldwide by May 15 for around €699 (US$ 950).

Nvidia today introduced their latest offering: the Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra. Those of you who keep up with hardware and graphics chip news would know that this new graphics processing unit is being touted as the new holder of the “world’s fastest GPU” title.

Here’s the skinny on the new GeForce 8800 Ultra:

• The GeForce 8800 Ultra performs an average of between 10 and 15% faster than the GeForce 8800 GTX GPU, previously considered the fastest GPU on the planet, across a wide range of top games and applications.
• Nvidia nForce 680i SLI-based motherboards for Intel processors provide the fastest and most feature-rich platform for the GeForce 8800 Ultra.
• GeForce 8 Series GPUs are the first shipping DirectX 10 GPUs and are the reference GPUs for Microsoft DirectX 10 API development.

Graphics cards equipped with the Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU and 768MB of video memory will be available worldwide by May 15 for around €699 (US$ 950).