NVIDIA DECIDED to cancel its upcoming G70 Ultra card, a real shocker. We checked this news really well as it sounded crazy to us at first place. However, there is good business sense behind that hard decision.
Nvidia knows that ATI can no ship many R520 XT’s running at 600/1400MHz and therefore won’t get into relaunching a new faster clocked G70 chip. The G70 Ultra was supposed to be a faster version of G70 card based on existing 110 chip, just clocked faster.
This news does make sense, but it could mean that when ATI releases the R520, it *could* be faster than the 7800GTX. Of course, they will be in very scarce quantities, while the 7*00 series are not. Check out the posting at The Inquirer.