Two weeks ago, we attended AMD’s launch on their R600 GPU in Malaysia and managed to get one of those monsters to show you guys it’s supposed prowess, only to be disappointed by its performance saddled back by immature drivers. At about the same time, Nvidia launched their latest top-of-the-line GPU, the Nvidia 8800 Ultra. The 8800 Ultra comes with a core clock that’s 36 MHz faster and a 180 MHz boost for the memory. All 8800 Ultra will also come with 0.8ns GDDR3 memory instead of the 1.0ns GDDR found on the GTX

With a similar core as the 8800GTX, exactly what more does this latest addition to the G80 family as to offer? We will take a brief look at its performance by pitting it against its predecessor, the 8800GTX.

First, let’s do a brief comparison of specs for the G80 family.
  GeForce
8800 Ultra		 GeForce
8800 GTX		 GeForce
8800 GTS
Stream Processors 128 128 96
Core Clock (MHz) 612 575 500
Shader Clock (MHz) 1500 1350 1200
Memory Clock (MHz) 1080 900 800
Memory Amount 768MB 768MB 640MB or
320MB
Memory Interface 384-bit 384-bit 320-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 103.7 86.4 64
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 39.2 36.8 24

Let’s go on to take a look at some ultra pictures.