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NV brings Quadro FX 4800 to the Mac
NVIDIA ANNOUNCED it is bringing its Quadro FX 4800 high-end graphics card to the Mac Pro platform.
The card sports 1.5GB of graphics memory and boasts memory bandwidth of up to 76.8 GB/sec. It has two Dual-Link DVI connectors, for big displays, and a a three-pin mini-DIN connector for you to plug in stereoscopic glasses, shoudl you feel the need.
And, if you don't have any nice pictures to look at or games to play, you can always use the card to work out your shopping bill, as it supports Nvidia's Cuda parallel processing jiggery-pokery.
Users wanting use Windows apps on their Macs can use the card with Boot Camp, or buy a proper PC.
Nvidia said the Quadro FX 4800 for Mac arrives in May at a cost of $1800 (each!). µ
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Been looking forward to a new main stream workstation card that does not cost a arm and a leg. Looking forward to the benchmarks and see how it compares with its bigger brother the 5800 and also how it fairs with other cards in the price/performance range.
you don't consider that to be an arm and a leg? you must have very big arms and legs, my friend... I'd say it's the FX580 that offers reasonable performance for a reasonable price... but that is 72.5% of the performance for 11% of the price of an FX4800!! I'm not sure they'll sell it for the mac, though (and I don't care, either). 3dproffessor already has a review on the FX4800 and FX3800, I'd expect the rest of the lineup to come around there soon (meanwhile, nvidia's official numbers paint FX580 in splendid light)
The PC version has 2 Display Port and 1 DVI, while the Mac version has 2 DVI and no Display Port. Wonder if including display port has been seen as a mistake and this is a backpedal.
BTW - What's the difference with a Mac version vs the PC version. Is there an actual hardware difference, or does it just make driver support official?
It's called "marketing".
If its Vantage Score, Theory leads one to incredible 76,000 synthetic score. Wow. GodZillia Lives. Born in UnderSea EarthQuake from Anciet Dinosauer Egg....Heres ATI Nonpro rebuttal, in sense its' DX 11 capable, yet R870.always buy 4 of 'Em.
With DirectX 11 scheduled to debut in the second half of this year, both NVIDIA and AMD are working on new GPUs to fully support the upcoming API yet only one will get to claim the "worlds first" title and, according to recent rumors, itll be AMD. Likely manufactured on TSMCs 40nm node, the RV870 GPU is said to be ready in July, Two Months. STeWie drashek Beta Dx'd.
DirectX is very little to do with Quadro cards and nothing at all to do with Mac Quadro cards.
Our applications run on OpenGL and Quadro drivers are tuned for OpenGL applications.
This is a work station card not a toy for playing games.
"And, if you don't have any nice pictures to look at or games to play..."
Anyone playing games on this thing is insane. That's what GeForces are for, and a GTX285 may very well provide the same level of performance for gaming. Quadros are for rendering and whatever else people do on workstations, not gaming, and using them for games isn't really that great an idea.
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