PNY Offering Limited Edition OC'd 8800 GTX

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, May 08, 2007, 02:45 PM EDT

PNY has just announced a factory overclocked, limited edition $579 GeForce 8800 GTX card. Here's a quick run-down of some of it more interesting specifications:

BUS Technology	PCI Express
Memory Amount	768MB
Memory Interface	384-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec)	96 (versus 86.4 standard)
Fill Rate (billion pixels/sec.)	39.7 (versus 36.8 standard)
Stream Processors	128
Shader Clock (MHz)	1450 (versus 1350MHz standard)
Core Clock (MHz)	621MHz (versus 575 MHz standard)
Memory Frequency (effective)	2.0GHz (versus 1.8GHz standard)

At the clock speeds listed above, this card should offer almost all of the performance of the recently announced, and much more expensive GeForce 8800 Ultra.

Tags: GTX, pny, edition, limited edition, mit, GT, TED, IM

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