NVIDIA Unveils Quadro FX 4800 Graphics Card for Mac Pro

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Today NVIDIA announced the availability of their ultra high-end Quadro FX 4800 graphics card for Mac Pro users.

The card NVIDIA describes as “market’s most advanced professional graphics card” features similar specs as the recently-released PC version, including:

• A “massive” 1.5GB frame buffer
• Memory bandwidth up to 76.8 GB/sec
• Boot camp support
• Two dual-link DVI connectors equipped with 3 pin min-din connector for added “3D stereoscopic imaging” according to the release

NVIDIA GM of Professional Solutions, Jeff Brown, said in a statement, “Some of the world’s most challenging visual computing problems are solved on the Mac platform. The Quadro FX 4800 provides the power and speed to meet these demanding requirements.”

Posted on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:45:00 CDT | by James Douglas

NVIDIA Announces Quadro FX 5800

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NVIDIA has announced its latest Quadro graphics card called the FX 5800. The card uses CUDA massively Parallel Processing Architecture and is designed for robust performance for the oil and gas exploration, medical imaging, and styling/design applications.

The FX 5800 offers 4GB of graphics memory, a first in the graphics industry. Other features include up to 240 CUDA programmable parallel cores and more. NVIDIA says that other advanced features of the card include interactive 4D modeling with time lapse, memory bandwidth of up to 102 GB per second, fill rates over 52 billion texels per second and 300 million triangles per second and more. Read more

Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:18:21 CST | by Shane McGlaun

New NVIDIA Quadro CX is a $2k Photoshop User's Dream

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NVIDIA introduced its new accelerator for Adobe Creative Suite 4 software, the NVIDIA Quadro CX. The Quadro CX was architected to deliver the best performance for the new GPU-optimized features of Adobe Creative Suite 4. If you have $2,000 you can take your Photoshop experience to completely new levels.
With NVIDIA Quadro CX users can encode H.264 videos at lightning-fast speeds with the NVIDIA CUDA-enabled plug-in for Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, RapiHD from Elemental Technologies; accelerate rendering time for advanced effects; and accurately preview what deliverables will look like with 30-bit color or uncompressed 10-bit/12-bit SDI before final output.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 software now has added optimization to take advantage of GPU technology, including the parallel processing capability in the Quadro CX GPU. Read more

Posted on Fri, 17 Oct 2008 01:48:33 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New NVIDIA Quadro Fx Notebook GPUs announced

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NVIDIA announces the introduction of a new series of NVIDIA Quadro FX mobile GPUs, featuring an NVIDIA CUDA Parallel Computing Processor.
Workstation manufacturers such as Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP and Lenovo are now offering the new series of Quadro FX mobile GPUs across a wide range of professional notebook workstations.

Highlighting the flagship product of the series is the Quadro FX 3700M, with 128 CUDA Parallel Computing Processor cores, which offers an unprecedented 1 GB of dedicated graphics memory for graphics-performance hungry industries such as oil and gas exploration, mechanical design and digital content creation. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:39:34 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA Quadro Plex Systems unveiled

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The new NVIDIA Quadro Plex Systems bring visual Supercomputing to the deskside with 480 processing cores, NVIDIA CUDA programmability and 8GB of Graphics Memory.
The new D series of NVIDIA Quadro Plex Visual Computing Systems (VCS) are available in deskside or rackmount configurations.

The Quadro Plex systems are ideal for the styling and design, geosciences and scientific visualization industries, working with extremely large 3D models, datasets and power walls. Read more

Posted on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:35:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA QuadroFX 3700 512MB $1,700 Graphics Card Review

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Hothardware published a review of the $1,700 NVIDIA QuadroFX 3700 512MB Workstation Graphics Card.

Quote from the review: "We take a look at NVIDIA’s latest entrant into the mid-range workstation graphics card market, the QuadroFX 3700. This card has an MSRP of about $1,700, which puts it smack-dab in between the price tags of NVIDIA's mid-range and ultra-high-end products, although street prices for the QuadroFX 3700 are much lower than its MSRP. This card is based on NVIDIA’s popular G92 graphics processor, which has been prominently featured in their GeForce 8800 GT / GTS lineup at a very competitive price point. Read more

Posted on Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

NVIDIA Announces Quadro FX 3600M Mobile Workstation Graphics

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Alongside the announcement of the 9600 GT desktop graphics card today, NVIDIA also announced a new graphics card for notebooks as well. The NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M graphics card for notebooks is intended for use in mobile workstations.

The card is ideal for mobile engineers, designers and scientists who need desktop level graphics rendering in a mobile platform. “Design professionals, who rely on the high-performance and advanced features of NVIDIA Quadro graphics in a desktop workstation, can also experience this same level of performance in a notebook workstation," said Jeff Brown, general manager, Professional Solutions, NVIDIA. "With the new NVIDIA Quadro FX 3600M GPU, the notebook becomes a powerful workstation, allowing professionals to work anywhere, anytime without sacrificing graphics quality or performance." Read more

Posted on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:53:38 CST | by Shane McGlaun