Nvidia G70 Ultra Cancelled

6 Sep, 2005 at 4:09pm ET Article published in Tech

Nvidia has suprisingly decided to cancel its upcoming G70 Ultra card in an attempt to solidify and secure sales of the standard G70 line.

Nvidia G70 ultra would likely be very competitive to R520 XT but it would hurt G70, Geforce 7800 GTX sales and therefore Nvidia won’t release it. So all of you who have been waiting for 7800 Ultra you can just forget about it.

Business wise it’s better to ship many GTX and GTs and sell them in quantities than to release a limited but faster Ultra. We learned that Nvidia shipped a few tens of thousands of GTX and GTs already and it has been shipping in numbers ever since. Last thing you want is to upset people with releasing Ultra, a card that would be marginally faster than G70 and likely to create more problems than solve them.

Source: The Inquirer

Comments

6 Sep 2005 ~ 4:44pm djstubbs Ironically that makes me happy.
6 Sep 2005 ~ 4:52pm GHoosdum It's not ironic... customers like you are the reason they're not releasing the Ultra - they want to keep you happy for an entire GPU generation, rather than interuppting your 7800 goodness with a minor one-up.
6 Sep 2005 ~ 5:19pm djstubbs

GHoosdum wrote:

It's not ironic... customers like you are the reason they're not releasing the Ultra - they want to keep you happy for an entire GPU generation, rather than interuppting your 7800 goodness with a minor one-up.

Well that's essentially what I meant, just misused the word.
6 Sep 2005 ~ 7:55pm RWB

GHoosdum wrote:

It's not ironic... customers like you are the reason they're not releasing the Ultra - they want to keep you happy for an entire GPU generation, rather than interuppting your 7800 goodness with a minor one-up.

Me too.... but I just can't afford a stupid video card that costs as much as my truck. :o
6 Sep 2005 ~ 9:36pm entropy No kidding. I would love to build myself a new computer right now, but I just can't see it happening. I need a decent car, damnit! This van is going to kill me.

And after that comes college. And with how often (or not often) I work, it'll probably be another 6 months before I can get that car and then buy a new computer (assuming a $2000 budget for a new one... I want that sucker to scream! (plus an LCD monitor would be really nice).

This stuff is just so expensive
7 Sep 2005 ~ 12:28pm shwaip You don't need a car for college. Not having a car saves a lot of money (insurance, gas, the actual cost of the car), and there's public transportation and/or your friends.
7 Sep 2005 ~ 3:32pm entropy But for the next few years I will. Mooching off of friends (for a year or two) is just being a jerk, and there is no public transportation in this town. Literally, none.

When I go to college I might not even take it (or be able to), but from now till then the savings in gas money would more than make up for what I pay for the car.