7800 Ultra Cancelled!

[FurbySlayer]

I believe it was anandtech covering the launch who mentioned Nvidia was dropping the ultra moniker feeling that the GT was a more marketable name

 

[Sly]

There's been no confirmation of a 7800 Ultra model in the first place why make a public announcement that it was cancelled?

Unless nVidia was gloating.

same way all the nvidia bots here say the R520 missed its launch date....even though it never had one publically.

Yes, the members of the ATI fanclub tend to exaggerate a lot and make something out of nothing just to have virtual ammo to fire at the nVidia side.

http://www.beyond3d.com/

While ATI have previously been a little coy about R520’s release dates in public, with ATI’s CEO, Dave Orton, saying that they had initially hoped for an early summer release but it will now be late summer, it is blatantly obvious that it has been delayed. In a recent investors Q&A session ATI’s Senior Vice President of the PC Business Unit, Rick Bergman, on the subject of R520 said "We had hoped to have that product in the June timeframe, but unfortunately due to a variety of design issues it has moved out to the September / October timeframe for launch". This is more or less in-line with the late summer launch previously mentioned by Dave Orton.

Yup no specific launch date announced. Just that most people would interpret that summer begins in March and the new launch date rumor is at september (or is it october now?)

It makes sense.

In the past, hasn't nVidia always released their fastest cards first, followed by the slower models (Ultra, GT, regular)?

It would make sense that nVidia would release the GTX, GT, and plain jane 7800 wouldn't it?

From what i can tell (Not totally sure tho). Normal cards first, followed by high end, followed by low end, then finally, the super deals near the end of the product cycle like the ti4200 for the GF4, 5900xt for FX, there wasn't one for GF6 tho, might be coz the GF7 came out too soon. Maybe we'll get lucky and they'll release a 7800XT

 

[trinibwoy]

Have you ever seen one,it's only been talk as of right now. I couldn't agree more the R520 is just as available as the 7800 ultra, as are the spec's.

The existence of the R520 has been officially acknowledged by ATi in numerous interviews and investor briefings - because some random plebe on a forum doesn't have one doesn't mean it doesn't exist. On the other hand, the Ultra is complete fiction.

http://www.soneraplaza.fi/tietokoneet/artikkeli/0,2998,h-9112_a-303085,00.html

But to be honest, we’ve had our share of challenges with the R520 and RV530 chips. Even though all the simulations that were done with the chips were looking good, there were still issues with the silicon when it came back from the fab. It was also surprising that RV515 and RV530 were designed by the same team and manufactured in the same fab using same technology, but RV515 worked perfectly and RV530 caused us problems".

Is that proof enough for you of the existence of the R520?

 

[furocious]

I find a lot of their stories funny, and entertaining. My only problem would be who writes it? It seems like they give highschool kids five bucks a story to pour out some craptastical tech story, very poor usage of grammar, and sentence structure, almost as bad as mines.

 

[0ldman]

Bashing The Inq is almost as stupid as blindly believing them.

It is a news site with that posts rumors and states them as such. If they really took themselves seriously, I'd see bashing them. Seriously, I'll give them odds they're right 70% of the time. The sheer amount of speculation and rumors posted (often contradicting each other) the numbers are in their favor.

Bottom line, its behind the scenes news, rumors, etc, when they're right, great. When they're not, big honkin deal. I don't remember them stating their site is 100% accurate.

 

[Russ]

Ah, the sweet smell of "I told you so."

Contrary to what someone said the GTX name replaced the Ultra name. This was publically stated before the GTX came out.

And I get my news from [H] too!

 

[Sly]

Ah, the sweet smell of "I told you so."

Contrary to what someone said the GTX name replaced the Ultra name. This was publically stated before the GTX came out.

And I get my news from [H] too!

I may have missed it but who publicly stated the existence of the ultra? Unless a news is confirmed by a company exec (like the R520 launch date) it's gonna be really hard to believe.

 

[CMAN]

Quote:
Originally Posted by DaveOrton
But to be honest, we’ve had our share of challenges with the R520 and RV530 chips. Even though all the simulations that were done with the chips were looking good, there were still issues with the silicon when it came back from the fab. It was also surprising that RV515 and RV530 were designed by the same team and manufactured in the same fab using same technology, but RV515 worked perfectly and RV530 caused us problems".


Is that proof enough for you of the existence of the R520?
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Ah, yes confirmation from ATI,theres a real reliable source,just like it was to be shipped in june.

 

[BullseyeBob]

lmao

Inq posts garbage about ATi for weeks now and you guys just bash bash bash away like 'look at the truths i found at the INQ!!" And now that something negative is posted about Nvidia "IT CANT BE TRUE!!! LIES!!!" So hiLOLarious I'm just gonna sit here and wet myself.

 

[CrimandEvil]

I'm just gonna sit here and wet myself.

You do that.

I don't see much "IT CANT BE TRUE!!! LIES!!!" posts other then yours and a few n00bs.

If you bothered to even glace over most of the other posts it's all "The Inq posts nothing but rumors" posts.

If you threw enough s$@% against the wall some of it's going to stick.

 

[Russ]

I may have missed it but who publicly stated the existence of the ultra? Unless a news is confirmed by a company exec (like the R520 launch date) it's gonna be really hard to believe.

you are saying the same thing that I think. I agree with you. I guess you misunderstood me or something.

 

[finalgt]

Then how come I always find information on there thats been on other sites like anandtech and tomshardware?

1. CTRL + C
2. CTRL + V
3. Profit

 

[Sly]

you are saying the same thing that I think. I agree with you. I guess you misunderstood me or something.

Sorry, i wasn't contradicting you Misquote.

 

[Russ]

Sorry, i wasn't contradicting you Misquote.

ok. Funny thing is no one really seems to be arguing in here about teh real existence of an ultra. In all the other threads where the ultra was mentioned, people got into heated debates on why nvidia was holding back a card. Guess now that we finally have some more information all the wishful thinkers will shut up.

The only thing people are talking about is how bad the Inq is, lol.

 

[CEREAL_KILLER]

well you have to think that any site that carries that name cant be 100% correct. they post anything and everything they hear and then when its right they look good. when its not right they push it to the back of their minds and forget it ever happened.