Nvidia Aims GeForce 8800 GT at Gamers

By Geoff Duncan October 29, 2007

Nvidia Aims GeForce 8800 GT at Gamers

Graphics developer Nvidia has announced its GeForce 8800 GT graphics card, the latest entry in the company’s high-performance GeForce 8 series of desktop graphics systems. The 8800 Gt is designed to give gamers high-end processing power and performance at a friendly price.

The PCI-E 2.0 GeForce 8800 GT card sports 512 MB of video memory, a core clock speed of 600 MHz, a shader clock running at 1.5GHz, and a 256-bit memory interface running at 900 MHz. In addition, the card features 112 stream processors individually clocked at 1.5 GHz, full support for Microsoft’s DirectX 10 and DirectX 9 for compatibility with the most demanding games, Nvidia PureVideo HD² technology for quality high-definition video performance,

“When we introduced the GeForce 8 Series family, our most savvy customers and press demanded a product with 64 stream processors and a 256-bit memory interface to deliver more performance at the popular $199 to $259 price point,” said Nvidia’s general manager of GeForce desktop CPUs Ujesh Desai, in a statement. general manager of GeForce desktop GPUs at NVIDIA. “At this price point, gamers are getting more performance and features than ever before.”

Nvidia says the 8800 GT is available now from leading manufacturers, system builders, and retailers, and although the company hasn’t published a suggested retail price, the card seems to land around the $200 price point.

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