Today NVIDIA is launching two video cards, the first of the next generation DirectX 10 compliant cards to hit the market, the GeForce 8800GTX and the GeForce 8800GTS. The companion review to this piece, the ASUS 8800GTX takes the flagship card through its paces. This review will cover the EVGA 8800GTS to give as complete a picture of the new cards as possible in two separate reviews.



NVIDIA is now basically the sole independent provider of graphics chips in the world, as companies like S3 Matrox and VIA are not a factor in the graphics market. ATI is now part of AMD as the merger was recently completed. As to whether we will continue to see graphics cards from AMD, that is a probability, but not this year. NVIDIA has annual revenues exceeding $2 billion US dollars, and is growing into other markets with the recent purchase of PortalView expanding their company.



EVGA is one of the top NVIDIA partners here in the United States. The company has a commitment to its customers second to none, with support that features a Lifetime Warranty on its retail graphics cards, a Step-Up program that no other company offers anything comparable to, and generally the best performance of the cards with the same chip.