[H]ardNews 9th Edition

Sparkle GF 6800Ultra 512MB:

Sparkle has jumped on the 512MB bandwagon and announced a GeForce 6800Ultra 512MB video card. DigiTimes has all the info on the new cards as well as photos of each card. The new 512MB 6800Ultra is estimated to cost a whopping $850 each. Wow…SLi anyone?

The PCI-Express SLI Sparkle GeForce 6800 Ultra with 512MB of GDDR3 RAM is Sparkle’s first graphics card with 512MB of memory and will retail for around US$849. The Sparkle 6800 PCIe graphics card sporting 128MB of DDR memory will also support SLI, and will be priced at around US$349. Finally, Sparkle’s offering to the value end of the high-end graphics card market, the AGPx8 Sparkle GeForce 6200 will sell for around US$89.