NVIDIA Releases "G80" Derived Quadros

maroon1

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NVIDIA today released three new Quadro products – the Quadro FX 4600, Quadro FX 5600 and Quadro Plex VCS Model IV. The new Quadro FX 4600 and Quadro FX 5600 feature NVIDIA G80-derived graphics processors tweaked for CAD/CAM and visualization applications.

With the G80-derived graphics processor, the new Quadro FX 4600 and Quadro FX 5600 have 128-unified shader units. The new Quadros are also compatible with CUDA technology too, NVIDIA’s answer to AMD’s Stream Computing technology. DirectX 10 compliance and support for shader model 4.0 are also feats of the new Quadros.

Differentiating the Quadro FX 4600 and Quadro FX 5600 is the amount of memory. The lower Quadro FX 4600 features 768MB of video memory – similar to NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800GTX. A whopping 1.5 GB of video memory is available on the Quadro FX 5600; besting ATI’s 1GB of graphics memory endowed FireGL V7350. Both Quadros have 384-bit memory interfaces though.

Although NVIDIA announced the Quadro Plex VCS Model IV at the same time as the Quadro FX 4600 and Quadro FX 5600, there are no details of the Quadro Plex VCS Model IV in the press release or Quadro Plex VCS product pages. However, expect the Quadro Plex VCS Model IV to feature the new Quadro FX 4600 or Quadro FX 5600 graphics processors.

NVIDIA prices the new Quadro FX 4600 at $1995 and the Quadro FX 5600 at $2999.
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http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6336

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Quadro FX 5600 has 1.5GB of memory. That's crazy !!!
 
Meh... Quadros are for like movie making, heavy photo work, CAD, etc right? Not the kind of card most people here would look for... not good for gaming.
 
That card will not fit at ALL in my system, please as mentioned before, its not good for gaming, so I don't see the point in considering one.
 
thank you for posting this maroon1, as I am a heavy CAD user and have been wondering when the new quadro gpu was going to come out. Just because most people here only care about gaming hardware doesn't mean workstation equipment doesn't deserve a thread.
 
I wasn't saying anything against workstation equipment, it's just that most people would be like "ZOMG 1.5GB!!!1111 I WILL B TEH PWN N D00M!!!111", thinking that more memory means better gaming, when it often does not.
 
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