Nvidia 8700GTX Ultra (NOT 8700m GT) to be released early 2008

Hey,
I'm new to the forum, so if there has already been a post about this I apologize, but I did do a search.

During a e-mail conversation with Eurocom, I was told the following about a potential configuration of a m570ru.

In case you didn't catch the relevant part:

This is great news This means that the laptop owners will soon have some added dx10 graphics power! The first thing that I though then was, will I be able to upgrade if I buy a 8700m or 7950GTX now?

In another e-mail:

Awesome!!!

Anyway, thought I would let you guys know. Seems that the 8800 is coming to notebooks with the name 8700GTX!

BTW- all this information comes from the Clevo reseller, Eurocom.

 

pretty cool if it's true

 

The info came from the owner of Eurocom, so I hope so

 

Needless so say Nvidia's names are getting very descriptive. Not only is it GTX, but it's Ultra too. With such a long name to market it's power, I wonder why they just didn't straight out call it a 8800M? I think 8800M would be much more catchy anyways, in an easy understood sort of way.

I'm betting they aren't calling it a 8800M because it won't be related to the 8800. The early 2008 timeframe combined with the retention of the 8700 title, points to it being a highly overclocked 65nm shrink of the 8700M GT. Even overclocked I doubt the 8700GTX Ultra will truly be desktop 8800 performance level. Otherwise the would call it a 8800M. The 8700M GT slots in between the desktop 8600GT and 8600GTS, so the 8700M GTX Ultra likely slots between the 8600GTS and the 320MB 8800GTS. It probably nips at the heals of the 8800GTS enough that they can claim 8800 level performance.

 

soo, if it is taking them this long to make a graphics card for a notebook, imagine the nine series.

 

Its all business guys. Once ati finally gets their 2xxx series line into laptops (in the mainstream that is not just a few, like the 8 series is) then nvidia goes guess what 8700 (whatever version) is here. Then when ati releases its 2700 or 2800 nvidia announces 9 series. Like chess, gotta think a few moves ahead.

 

Forerunner has it on the head. Nvidia has no reason to come out with anything right now. They'll save it until just after the ATI stuff is out, then pounce on them. Unfortunately, I too was one of the many that wanted to wait for DX10 enthusiast cards for mobile, but thats still a while off.

 

I agree with you. I dun think there ll be 8800M anymore, unless ATI pulled a big rabbit out of the bag, the Mobility HD 2900. It ll pwn any current gen gpu if they can keep the heat down. And at that time, we might see a Nvidia 8900M or such... but seems like DX10 is going 10.1, i doubt they ll be releasing these beast oso.. oh well.. wait for the HD 3XXX series or Nvidia 9XXXM series.

 

Guess I'll stick with the 8700 in the NP5790.

 

What do you mean? NP5790 = M570RU, so you can upgrade it. If you have the money, that is. I better start pulling weeds now if I wanna have enough by the time it comes out.

 

I'm more inclined to agree its an overclocked 8700, or perhaps the 64 shader 256-bit card we've all been waiting for. (hey, I can dream, right?) I highly doubt it will match the 8800. ATI's got nothing that can match the 8800 GTX on the desktop market; like forrunner says, its likely they are just waiting for good ATI cards before springing the trap. I can see 8700 GTX U -> HD 2900 -> 8800 M GTS/GTX in that order. However it turns out, it will be good for the end user assuming nVidia and ATI can get their product launches in line.

 

Yeah yeah I know that. I was just saying I'm not going to wait until they start shipping them with those cards already in it since it seems to be all the way in 08. I'm planning on ordering the PC right when my mom gets back from her business trip(later tonight).

 

Just ran across this older thread while doing a bit of research and wanted to add a note that many a time resellers have quoted to me that this or that will definitely be in a system by such and such a date and it turns out to be hogwash. I was told in March the Clevo D900C would have 8800M dual graphics cards and a quad core processor by a reseller that will remain unnamed. It never happened, and won't.

And next year is a way off still, if you wait until then to buy assuming this rumor is true, there will be some thing else better coming in 5 months from that time too. Holding out for the next great thing in technology is a function with a time limit of infinite.