You hear it all the time: My PC can't run that! But the guy who picks up this new card probably won't ever have that problem.
Nvidia's Quadro FX 5800 is a beast, packing up to 240 of their CUDA graphics cores on on one massive card. How does 4GB of on-board graphics memory sound? I think it sounds f*cking insane! The only thing more insane is the price: $3499.
With a memory bandwidth of 102 GB per second, and fill rates that exceed 52 billion textels and 300 million triangles per second, this PCI Express device would make a kickass gaming card. It's actually intended to be used in the medical and scientific fields, though.
The card supports OpenGL and DirectX 10, so I wonder if you could really game with it.
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2:45 PM on 11.10.2008
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SOMEONE MUST FIND OUT!
That explains why there is no half naked chick on it.
That's the sound of me fapping to this card
Anything that has drivers not explicitly tailored for gaming is crap (remember Matrox?). I'm willing to be that the specialized OpenGL performance of the card is absolutely amazing though for imaging and rendering, hence the graphical application only.
I want a computer that can run like six Crysis' at full settings at the same time windowed. Why? Because my penis isn't big enough for my liking and I'd like to compensate by purchasing an overpowered machine that probably won't even have a quarter of it's potential tapped into.
:P
"Even though it's not meant for gaming" <-- Key phrase.
I wonder how many Sterlings would require fellatio before I can get that for free.
SOMEONE MUST FIND OUT!"
I agree. Someone test this thing on all new games and post results.
BTW, I'm not gonna buy it, lol. Just curios.
Before $3500
After $3500
All I'm saying is that is a SHIT load of cash...my $250 GPU card works pretty damn well with todays game.
Actually I know some people in the 3d business that work on normal video cards (gaming video cards), like the GTX280 and say is most of the time the same thing.
Unless you're drunk, then it still lags.
I just think it'd be interesting to see how this stacks up against a SLI set of the most expensive consumer model in 3D modelling/simulation apps... though I don't know if the RAM stacks on SLI...
It wouldn't be a fair contest. The tailor made card for imaging will blow the doors off of consumer model cards.
As someone that has worked in the computer imaging field in a previous development job, consumer level products can't hack it. It's funny, even recently some of those high powered specialty video cards can't run Diablo 2 because they don't have the right drivers for Direct X/3D compatibility.
And don't even get me started on the sprites! Those clouds don't look at all realistic.
Doesn't drinking just add motion blur? Man I wish there was a website about getting the best out of your system in "Life".
The "drinking adds motion blur" tip would be right up there in the top 10 best i think.
I prefer motion blur that doesn't backfire into crazy headaches when i wake up the next morning.
Flash the BIOS with a GXT 280 BIOS.
Then tweak the drivers to see all 4GBs of RAM.
And, Voilla! You now have a $3500 GTX 280.
That would perform just as well as the $600 one.
Unless you are running a monitor that can do 4320p (7680x4320 Resolution.) You're not going to see the RAM make much of a difference. 1GB can handle just about all the textures a resonable monitor can display at its max resolution.
Maya isn't exactly just a high-end version of the Doom3 engine.
So according to Nvidia the ATI 4870 has 800 processing Cores!
I agree that this is nothing but a GTX 280 with 4GB VRAM and some driver tweaks that unlock the Quadro features. After all Nvidia doesn't want you to buy a $400 card and use it for gaming and CAD. They want you to buy a GTX280 for gaming and one of these rip-offs for $3500 to use for graphics design.