Nvidia Releases 4-GB Graphics Card For Professional Market.
Mac Observer (11/12, Barylick) reports, "Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia announced on Tuesday that it has released its Quadro FX 5800 graphics board. The 5800, which is designed for the professional graphics market as opposed to the gaming market, boasts 4 gigabytes of VRAM, 240 processor cores, supports the stereo DP and Dual Link DVI connection protocols and a carries $3,500 price tag." The graphics board "is designed to tap into the parallel processing power of its cores to crunch massive amounts of data without overloading the primary processor(s) within a computer."
ChannelWeb (11/12, Bosavage) reports, "NVIDIA's new graphics card features a massively parallel processing architecture and 4 GB of RAM aimed at energy exploration, medical imaging and design applications -- and not at gamers. At a price tag of $3,499, NVIDIA's high-end product is targeting a select customer group with specific technology needs." ChannelWeb explains, "Professionals in oil exploration, medical diagnostics and product design wade through mountains of data to get their jobs done. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 is geared toward turning that data into a form those professionals can comprehend, analyze and use to make decisions." Ars Technica (11/11, McGlaun) also covered the story.
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