GeForce Go 6800 Ultra: Powering the Dell Inspirion XPS Gen 2

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• Regs - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

  If im not mistaken, the only difference between the GT and Ultra are their clock speeds #7. These benchmarks are baffling. I'm having a hard time believing them. How on earth did they pull it out?
  
  Is this a prelude to what's to in the next generation of desk top cards? I'm think, if they can make a mobile card this fast, they should surely make a faster desk top counterpart with less heat, space, and power restraints.

• Mingon - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

  Odd how a 12pipe / 5 vs @ 450mhz can out pace a desktop 16pipe 6vs @425. What optimisations have been done? I can understand it beating a 6800gt due to greater vertex/pixel shading power (450 x 5 vs 350 x 6) but it shouldnt beat an ultra.
  
  Is the nv41m on 0.13 or 0.11um ? the die seems quite large any idea on transistor count?

• pxc - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

  http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1769520,00.as... batterymark 2 hours 13 minutes with the P-M 2.13GHz, WiFi, 1GB and 80GB hard drive.
  
  The base price of the computer is $2249 with:
  P-M 760 (2GHz)
  512MB DDR2 dual channel
  17" WUXGA (1920x1200)
  256MB go 6800 Ultra
  combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM
  60GB HD
  9 Cell battery (80WHr)
  WinXP
  etc
  
  http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx...
  
  It's about the cheapest go 6800 laptop, but it includes the fastest version.
  
  total.ownage

• bamacre - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

  You can configure one now. $2745 for a well equiped system. Intenal Audigy, 6800 Go Ultra, 2.0Ghz P4 "760," cdrw/dvd drive, 1GB ddr2. Not bad for what it can do.

• Icehawk - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

  Amazing, just a few years ago the idea of gaming on a laptop was laughable. Now you can get a DTR that can pretty much keep up with the latest desktops - wow!
  
  Not just battery life... but cost. This has got to be a $3k+ machine :(
  

• seanp789 - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

  For a laptop to come even come to close to desktop performance is simply amazing. so be on par with? Wow, just wow.
  
  they manage to do all this with a laptop battery and cooling?
  
  I would really like to see that go card translate into a desktop part. It would make running SLI a little easier.

• DerekWilson - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

  We would too :-/
  
  We just didn't have time to perform any battery life or power tests as we had to spend all the time we had with the system benchmarking games.

• dvinnen - Thursday, February 24, 2005 - link

  I would love to see the battery life for this thing.