NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Launched

The NVIDIA has released the GeForce 8800 GT graphics processing unit giving gamers even more high-performance graphics power and intense gaming experience for next-generation DirectX 10 games like Crysis, Hellgate: London, and Gears of War. GeForce 8800 GT is priced from  $199 to $259, and also supports current DirectX 9 games. 

In addition to 112 stream processors—each individually clocked at 1. 5GHz—and a 256-bit memory interface running at a blazing-fast 900MHz, the GeForce 8800 GT is designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus standard and is backwards compatible with the original PCI Express standard.

The GeForce 8800 GT also marries the best-in-gaming with the best-in-HD. It leverages NVIDIA’s revolutionary second-generation video processing engine to deliver high-quality playback of HD DVD and Blu-ray movies on everyday PCs. The new programmable video processing engine takes on all of the high definition H.264 video decoding, freeing the CPU to perform other tasks and significantly reducing power consumption, heat, and noise.