Forecast

Clearly the Mars/2DI/4GD3 will be the fastest card on the market when it gets available. 25'949 points in 3DMark Vantage Extreme Presets are astonishing and it surely will take time until another card will throw the Mars/2DI/4GD3 from the throne.

4 GByte GDDR3 memory, 2.8 billion transistors, a total memory bandwidth of far more than 300'000 MB/s as well as the enormeous dissipation power which probably breaks through the 300 Watts wall are very impressive facts. That the card is limited to 1'000 pieces world wide makes it exclusive from the beginning but probably so much exclusivity will have its price.

At last we'd like to guess at about exactly this point. If you take the price of two recent GTX 285 GPUs you will end up with CHF 800 (EUR 266.-). If we now add some kind of very juicy exclusivity bonus and also 2 GByte more GDDR3 memory we might probably see a price an astonishing price tag of CHF 1'500.- (EUR 1'000.-.). We think such a devilish price would fit perfectly to such a mostrous graphic card!


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Author: m.buechel@ocaholic.ch