After months of rumors and broken NDAs, NVIDIA today finally announced the GeForce 8800GT graphics card, which is now available in retail stores.

“When we introduced the GeForce 8 Series family, our most savvy customers and press demanded a product with 64 stream processors and a 256-bit memory interface to deliver more performance at the popular €199 to €259 price point. Today we decided to raise the bar and deliver GeForce 8800 GT with 112 stream processors, a fast 256-bit memory interface, and our second-generation PureVideo HD technology, giving our customers an incredible value proposition.” said Ujesh Desai, general manager of GeForce desktop GPUs at NVIDIA. “At this price point, gamers are getting more performance and features than ever before.”

If you’re looking for a card to play Crysis, then this is it. “GeForce 8800 GT is the perfect card for gamers that want to play Crysis,” said Cevat Yerli, CEO of Crytek. “By bringing such high performance to the sub-€250 price segment, NVIDIA is allowing even more gamers to experience the full range of Crysis’s stunning visual effects at maxed-out resolutions.”

The card also features hardware-based playback of HD video content including HD-DVD and Blu-ray movies. It is also designed for the new PCI Express 2.0 bus standard and is backwards compatible with the original PCI Express standard.

It has already been benchmarked and reviewed by major hardware sites including AnadTech and The Tech Report, just to name a few.