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Albatron First-to-Market with GeForce 6800 Ultra

Toxicfume   on 10 May 2004 - 10:27 · 13 comments & 1003 views

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Thanks to crusher for posting this in the BPN Forum.

Japanese stores confirmed recently that Albatron may be the first-to-market with its Trinity GeForce 6800 Ultra graphics cards. The information published by Akiba PC Hotline claims that the first batch of such products is anticipated to arrive in the middle of the month – days from now.

An Albatron’s spokesman lately told that the company’s latest graphics cards, the GeForce 6800 and the GeForce 6800UV, will hit the shelves in Taiwan in early May, a lot earlier than NVIDIA said on the launch day of its NV40 graphics processor. Even though there are no reports about such products availability today, there is information that the add-in graphics cards are expected to arrive in days from now. Officially NVIDIA promised that its partners would deliver the GeForce 6800 Ultra-based products in late May or early June.

The GeForce 6-series of graphics processors will be available across entry-level, mainstream, performance-mainstream, high-end and, apparently, so-called ultra high-end graphics cards. The new series of NVIDIA’s graphics processors is the company’s second generation lineup of DirectX 9.0-compatible offerings that greatly leverage the feature-set of NVIDIA GeForce FX graphics chips and brings important additional caps like Shader Model 3.0 as well as great performance improvements over the previous generation hardware.

So far NVIDIA has unveiled only a $499 offering called the GeForce 6800 Ultra that is based on a 400MHz chip that integrates 16-pixel pipelines, 6 vertex pipelines as well as equipped with 256MB of GDDR3 memory at 1100MHz. Later graphics cards powered by similar graphics processors priced at $399 and $299 will be introduced.

News source: X-Bit Labs


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#1 Varsity on 10 May 2004 - 12:39
Isn't PCI Express.
(2 replies) #2 Tikimotel on 10 May 2004 - 13:05
QUOTE
Even though recommendations are effective only for the USA, there are no huge differences between them and pricing in the rest of the world.


with release prices of 550€ and a dollar to Euro ratio of 1.21 that´s almost 665$
(665-499=166$ higher)

What´s their definition of huge difference then, 400$ or more maybe????
#2.1 yakumo on 10 May 2004 - 15:03
yeah, PC related stuff coming to the UK goes the same way. 1:1 though.

$499 end up being £499

fun with currency conversion.. (http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic)

499 US Dollar = 279.630 British Pound (oh how i wish they'd cost this...i'm skint but i'd buy one tomorrow )

499 British Pound (GBP) = 890.466 US Dollar (USD) (fun huh guys? )

499 British Pound = 749.812 Euro
#2.2 Tikimotel on 10 May 2004 - 15:58
komplett.co.uk offers a gainward 6800ultra in pre-order for 400pounds...
that's a bargain
(3 replies) #3 Fanon on 10 May 2004 - 13:12
The only card out of this lineup that will be worth anything seems to be the GT. In the tests, the GT and ATi X800 seemed to be head to head (of course, that's with beta drivers, too).
#3.1 Grappa on 10 May 2004 - 19:34
Yeh, but that's the ATI 420 chipset... the 480 comes out in June, and I have a feeling it's going to pwn the 6800...

#3.2 yakumo on 11 May 2004 - 01:28
yes, joy, lets always compare the new tech to the old tech.. and put down the old,
whats the point, when 480 comes out i'm sure nvidia will have a new part too.
#3.3 Grappa on 11 May 2004 - 13:56
Actually, if you read the review of the 420 at Tom's Hardware, the ATI card is using "old tech". And it's still beating the Nvidia.
#4 sks447 on 10 May 2004 - 13:40
****.....i still want a 9700 pro.......$500 is way too much to play a game!!!!
#5 mstx on 10 May 2004 - 20:10
Don't forget to buy a $150 PSU
(1 reply) #6 MicroZombies on 11 May 2004 - 01:24
Doesn't any American company make "Boards" anymore? I am noticing quite a disturbing pattern. You have American Chip companies like Intel - AMD & Nvidia - designing & making these chips in the USA & then exporting them to Taiwain were they make the Boards for the Chips. It is then Imported back to the USA. It probably saves them money - but I would say that it lowers the Quality of the Product!! Can't an American "Board Manufacturer" figure out how to compete with the Taiwanese & Koreans?
#6.1 ev0| on 11 May 2004 - 02:50
It's not that - it's just that they would have to pay americans more to make it, where they can pay taiwanese people much less, hence, they save money.
#7 MicroZombies on 20 May 2004 - 00:17
Ah the Technology Market vs. The Labor Market. The same problem is also encountered in the Software/Programming World - its a Sad State of Affairs. American Programmers are Just as Good as Indian Programmers - its just that they can get away with paying an Indian Programmer less Money - I guess Everyone is trying to play an angle on this "Global Economy" thing these days huh?

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