NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra Review

The GeForce 8800 Ultra represents the current pinnacle of graphics cards on the PC. From its feature set to its performance, and the NVIDIA platform on the whole, there is nothing else available right now that can match it. When NVIDIA announced their nForce 680i SLI and 8800 series cards and christened them the ‘Ultimate Gaming Platform’, they weren’t kidding. There is no other gaming platform - including consoles - that can offer the features and performance of NVIDIA’s current high-end products.

The news isn’t all good, however. NVIDIA has set the MSRP of the GeForce 8800 Ultra at an extremely expensive $829. Considering the price of standard GeFore 8800 GTX cards has fallen to about $550 and pre-overclocked GTX cards that will perform similarly to the reference clocked Ultra are available for a only few dollards more, the Ultra doesn’t represent a good value. Of course, flagship graphics cards never represent the best value and there has never been a shortage of enthusiasts willing to ride the bleeding edge, regardless of price.

In the end, the new GeForce 8800 Ultra is what NVIDIA intended it to be - the most powerful desktop graphics card available, bar none.

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