Situation with the price Of geForce 8800 Ultra resemble to the market for high end desktop processors: Intel set the price of $999 for the fastest processor with free multiplier, and it recently even released the Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (2.93 GHz) witch cost over $1199. The theories here is simple: if no one can propose faster processor, why not to set the maximum price?
GeForce 8800 Ultra also do not have competitors. In any case, for the moment. There is also no need for reducing the prices other video cards family geForce 8800.
We succeeded in obtaining the official recommended retail prices for video card NVIDIA in May this year. We give it as reference information:
- GeForce 8800 Ultra - > $829 +;
- GeForce 8800 GTX - > $599-$649;
- GeForce 8800 GTS 640 mb. - > $399-$449;
- GeForce 8800 GTS 320 mb. - > $299-$349;
- GeForce 8600 GTS - > $199-$229;
- GeForce 8600 GT - > $149-$159;
- GeForce 8500 GT - > $89-$129;
- GeForce 8400 GS - > only for OEM;
- GeForce 8300 GS - > only for OEM;
- GeForce 7600 GS - > $89;
- GeForce 7300 GT - > $79 (supplied as video chip);
- GeForce 7300 LE - > $59 (supplied as video chip);
- GeForce 7200 GS - > $49.
We found some interesting value . First, the upper limit for the GeForce 8800 Ultra prices is not set.
In the second place, we can note that video card geForce 8400 GS and GeForce 8300 GS on the new chip g86 with directX 10 support could cost less than $100, if they will appear in retail. The video cards geForce 7950 GT, GeForce 7900 GT, GeForce 7900 GS and GeForce 7600 GT do not figure in the new NVIDIA price list , since they was been already removed from production.
The GeForce 7300 GT and GeForce 7300 LE are supplied to NVIDIA partners in the form of graphic chips, but not video card. Producers have to make on the base of these video chips finished graphic cards, proposing them on prices from $79 and $59 respectively.
Finally, the cheapest NVIDIA graphical solution before this season is GeForce 7200 GS. This product has some potential in the prime cost reduction , since the chip g72 is transferred on 80 nm technical process.