PNY Technologies, Inc. today announced immediate availability of the XLR8 GeForce 8800 GT 512MB graphics card. Based on the NVIDIA GeForce 8 Series of GPUs, this card features a strikingly immersive DirectX 10 gaming experience at an attractive price point and performance sweet spot.

"This is the perfect graphics card for gamers seeking immersive Direct X10 gaming experiences this season,” said Nicholas Mauro, senior marketing manager for PNY Technologies consumer graphics cards and memory. "The card's new architecture offers a future-proofing bridge to tomorrow's most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications. In fact, many of the most highly anticipated and newly released game titles of 2007, including Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, Crysis, Gears of War, Hellgate: London, Huxley, Lost Planet: Extreme Condition, and World In Conflict, are optimized for GeForce 8800 GT.”

PNY's XLR8 GeForce 8800 GT combines ultimate gaming enjoyment with a superior entertainment experience. Featuring the revolutionary second generation NVIDIA PureVideo HD engine, it delivers astounding Blu-ray and HD DVD movie picture quality on a PC with 100% offload of H.264 video decoding from the CPU with significantly reduced power consumption. Additionally, the XLR8 GeForce 8800 GT:

• Is compatible with the new PCI Express (PCIe) 2.0 bus architecture by maximizing the 5 GT/s PCIe Gen 2.0 bandwidth (twice that of first generation PCIe);
• Is fully backwards compatible with existing PCI Express motherboards for the broadest support;
• Features 112 stream processors clocked at a blazing fast 1.5 GHz and 256-bit framebuffer running at 900MHz;
• Comes equipped with multiple I/O connectivity options including analog SDTV/HDTV output, up to two dual-link DVI connectors, and integrated dual-link HDCP support; and
• Supports NVIDIA SLI(TM) technology for up to 2x the performance of a single graphics card.