Nvidia introduces Quadro FX 4800

Posted by Dennis Sellers Dec 2, 2008 at 11:10am

No one on if or when it might appear in a Mac Pro (it would have to be a Mac Pro with the price tag), but Nvidia has introduced the US$1,999 Quadro FX 4800 ultra-high-end professional graphics card.

With advances in GPU architecture, added graphics memory and 30-bit color, the Quadro FX 4800 gives professionals the right toolset to dramatically push the boundaries of realism, performance and quality, says Jeff Brown general manager, Professional Solutions, Nvidia.

Equipped with 192 CUDAT parallel computing cores, the Quadro FX 4800 delivers a 2X performance increase over previous generations of ultra-high-end graphics cards. Brown says key features in the Quadro FX 4800 include:

° Real-time visualization of large data sets: equipped with 1.5GB graphics memory, the Quadro FX 4800 has the capacity to process large textures and frames in real time while providing fill rates of 38 billion texels per second and geometry performance of 300 million triangles per second.

° A 128-bit precision graphic pipeline and 32x FSAA for better image clarity and quality.

° Dual 10-bit display ports delivering a color palette of over a billion colors, orders of magnitude greater than previous generations of graphics cards. Also included is a single dual-link digital display connector for ultra-high resolution panels of up to 3840×2400 at 24Hz.

° A CUDA parallel computing processor architecture exposed through a C language environment and tool suite.

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