Nvidia's Quadro FX3000G gives it an edge

A FEW DAYS BACK, Nvidia released one more beast for the professional market place, wrenching its own performance crown from the Quadro FX 2000, the only member of NV30 generation that could actually bring money into the firm's coffers.

ATI in this area stands little chance, as Nvidia's offering outperforms them for a significant margins even though there are some new drivers that could make the Canadian firm's X1 fly a little bit higher than before.

The Quadro FX 3000 G comes with Genlock/Framelock - a nice device that can help you control your card frame by frame, and used heavily in video editing.

According to Nvidia's own figures here, the Quadro FX 3000 - even it has double the bandwidth of a Quadro FX 2000 - does not perform twice as well.

This simply means that there is not much room left for speed increases with this architecture, and that's why Nvidia took so long to announce the card.

But we reckon that professional users and big companies will want to buy these cards as soon as they are announced.

The PRO E 02 score will increase from 40.8 to 41.6 with the new card that of course includes 256MB of memory and a 256 bit memory interface versus 128 bit memory and 128MB memory on the FX 2000.

And yes, it's the only true 128 bit card since as you possibly know ATI hardware including FireGL X1 is 96 bit colour precision only. µ