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If you have $1000 burning a hole in your pocket, NVIDIA has their 512MB cards on preorder already. For those who missed the abysmal benchmarks on the not yet shipping Radeon X800XL 512MB cards, check out the review here first. The GeForce 6800 Ultras 512MB are really nothing more than 512MB Quadro cards which have been available for some time, but to some the distinction may be important.
Considering the SLI problems plaguing 6800 Ultra and 6800GT cards right now, I know I certainly don't need to be convinced to stay away from these. For the curious, however, we have already started monitoring prices on these cards in our price engine:
http://labs.anandtech.com/search.php?q=6800+ultra+512mb
BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB OC - $999 ZipZoomFly
XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB - $899 Monarch Computer
So far all of the cards are on Pre Order or extending shipping, but the confirmed date merchants are telling us is May 5th.
Considering the SLI problems plaguing 6800 Ultra and 6800GT cards right now, I know I certainly don't need to be convinced to stay away from these. For the curious, however, we have already started monitoring prices on these cards in our price engine:
http://labs.anandtech.com/search.php?q=6800+ultra+512mb
BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB OC - $999 ZipZoomFly
XFX GeForce 6800 Ultra 512MB - $899 Monarch Computer
So far all of the cards are on Pre Order or extending shipping, but the confirmed date merchants are telling us is May 5th.