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- cawpin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+53You people need to read stuff before you Digg it. It doesn't say 128 cores. It says "the rough equivalent of 128 1.35GHz processors". That ain't the same thing.
- venom8599, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37It's a Quadro card, which is not for consumers or gaming.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+292003 called, it wants its... hold on, the phone is ringing...
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Hmm. That was 2009. It told me first, to never use that joke again, and second, everyone should have voted for the other guy. - Bean945, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25I think i'll hold out till the GTS version.
- dandiemer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21@hater: at least you chose your name appropriately.
- billbillbilly, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23dear god what is the world coming too? i think that thing has 5 time the processing ability of my whole computer.... but i bet that thing needs dedicated dual power supplys to run.....
- codyman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Being a film student, let me just say that this is a big deal....
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15If you have that many reasons, you need more money.
- ringo380, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15@pcgeek101
I hate to bring a tech discussion into a digg thread, but I am forced to ask if you've done anything special in terms of tweaking to get it to run like that. I have the same vidcard, 8800GTX, with a brand new cpu (core 2 duo 2.4) and a couple gigs of pc6400 ram, and while I get great FPS, it stutters like ***** crazy every time anything substantial loads onto the screen (like when I'm turning, or running around outside).
The rest of you, digg this down. I just need to know what he did to get it running like that on the 8800, and there's no PM system. - Satanael, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Reason #213582 For wanting to become a millionaire.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+203 grand for a graphics card that'll be up to date for at LEAST 2 weeks? What a deal!
- pegisys, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14@pcgeek101
maybe because the Quadro cards have always been crap for games, even though they are a lot more powerful then high-end consumer graphics cards - SirBotchness, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11This isn't the consumer card, this applies to about 100 people worldwide. You don't play video games on this.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9These cards are for people like me, who run inventor, COSMOS, Pro/E, etc., at work and need a card with a lot of 'torque' in our workstations... You gamers want cards with a lot of 'horsepower' to run your games. Completely different kind of cards here... Probably wouldn't run your games half as well as what you've got now, but on the flip side your 8800GTX won't run any of my 3D modeling software well at all.
- flipmeat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Well, the HD editors with big bucks will like it.
- Sedako, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7These cards are not designed for gaming, meaning you would actually get less performance using a Quadro vs an 8800. They are designed solely for high end video editing and applications.
- vitaboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I think the answer is that Apple's strategy is to grow organically. Don't grow so fast that you can't manage that growth effectively. Apple's entire business rests on its aura of quality (not to say that Apple is perfect in this area).
But it's sorta like how Apple is going after the enterprise market by not going after the enterprise market. First, they slyly advertise in magazines like Scientific American that Mac OS X is UNIX. Then they come out with enterprise-class hardware like the XServe and XServe RAID that is, pound-for-pound, cheaper than anything out there while denying it's for the enterprise. Nevertheless, enterprise gets interested and that's enough to get Apple's foot in the door, setting Apple up for bigger migrations on the corporate desktop.
For example, I talked to a programmer at an Apple Store last week who said that at his company, new hires are given a choice of a Dell or a MacBook Pro. He switched to the Mac mostly out of curiosity, but said he was liking it a lot. He said what surprised him was that 50% of the engineers at his company were using Macs now, and virtually 100% of new hires choose Macs. And all this is happening without Apple trying to bust through the front door.
The gaming situation on the Mac has never been really good, but again, I think Apple is following an organic growth strategy. The market for casual gaming is quite robust for the Mac, but in terms of hardcore gaming, only the best-sellers are on the Mac. But the situation will only get better and better, so it's really just having the patience to deal with the organic growth strategy. - ScottMaximus1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Quadros are not for gaming.
Period. - Altotus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Mac rumor boards have been talking about this for weeks now (in the context of a rumor that Apple will be debuting a new 8-core Mac Pro system with the new NVidia cards and a new version of Final Cut Studio).
- leonbev, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Sadly, the driver situation for ATI isn't any better. Anyone who's had to update the half dozen or so separate drivers required to get an AllInWonder card working correctly will know what I'm talking about.
- Kwipper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I would like to see someone take this graphics card and benchmark some of todays games on it. I know it's made for professional 3D work, but I just want to see the gaming potential of this card. Does it use D3D and OpenGL API's?
- Mejogid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7The driver scene for nVidia is a hell of a lot better than AMD/ATI, with the possible exception of Vista which no serious graphics professional (or gamer for that matter) uses yet.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.ministryoftech.com/2006/08/01/nvidia-quadro-plex-giving-silicon-graphics-the-final-death-blow/
- archerx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Maybe this could actually make After Effects work in real time... Heh who am I kidding?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not sure why you're being dugg down, you're absolutely correct. The BIOS of the card is also different from 8800GTX's. It's the same silicon under the heatsink, though.
- samarisi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3according to nvidia's chart, the quadro fx 5600 has a max power consumption of 171w. thats like 4x the power of my laptop charger.
- uppedbyhiggins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I COULD save up money to buy a house...or I could just buy a Mac Pro, this card, and an HD camera.
I wonder if HomelessHDProductions.com is taken... - catbertz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm not a mac guy, so I don't know the deal..Why does it seem that Apple never gives gamers what they want in hardware?
The PC side seems to find value in offering cutting edge gpu's. It would seem logical to bring gamers into the mac fold. *shrugs shoulders* - obeseotron, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5It's an 8800 with different drivers, real support and is certified for professional apps. This would be slower than a normal 8800 for games due to the drivers, but is probably certified for all types of professional software. It is not 128 core, it has 128 shader units. If this is 128 core, an Xbox 360 has 48 cores and an x1900 has 64.
- IndyAaron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2128 cores my ass. 128 unified shaders is a very different picture.
- neuropsychguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"These cards are not designed for gaming, meaning you would actually get less performance using a Quadro vs an 8800."
Which is why I said gamers with more money than sense will buy them thinking that it'll give them a performance boost. - joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I second that, the title is just plain wrong.
- avions, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2These cards cost around $2000. That would about double the price of a Mac Pro.
- BionicAntboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1True it's not 128 cores, but if the specs are anywhere close to accurate this is going to be a video editors dream (not to mention 3D animators), as in "I probably won't need to upgrade my graphics subsystem ever again because this is gonna do it all" dream.
That's WELL worth the admission price (especially when you can double down with SLI), and I'm sure most post-production developers would LOVE to jump all over the GP-GPU technology. - insomuchas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Quadro based cards arent designed for gaming nor do they perform as well as their geforce equivalent which costs several orders of magnitude less. If the cards were capable of gaming performance to make them worth the price have absolutely no doubt that Nvidia would make them available in a package for gamers. Do not buy one of these cards for gaming, you will be disappointed.
- kamikazecow, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6I don't think its 128 actual cores, but rather the 128 unified shader pipelines running at 1.35 mghz (like in the 8800 series) Notice they say "rough equivalent of 128 1.35GHz processors " Not actual cores. Still, this thing is a beast...Too bad the driver scene for nvidia is just a nightmare...
- pcgeek101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ringo: IM me if you want to know more.
- KennyElendi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I would totally spend 3 grand on a video-card...no wait, I wouldn't.
But seriously, I do agree that this is a huge step-forward in the field of video/graphics editing. Kudos to nVidia for being the first one out of the gate, yet again. - catbertz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Interesting response. Thanks.
I've always been intrigued by OSX, and would quickly jump in when they really embrace gamers. I have hope based on the whole Intel thing, which seemed impossible, but now looks like an awesome decision. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Buried as inaccurate. Get the title right next time brainiac.
- uppedbyhiggins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Agreed, real-time HD effects are going to rule--in 10 years when this is affordable = (
- Kragnerac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2But will it run Crysis?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1rocko's modern life!
- Ulvund, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Any comments from RIAA ?
- SVPirate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Get thee to an 8-core Mac Pro brother!
- schoate09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I couldn't take the Mac GUI seriously in a corporate environment. Plus there are many irreplacable MS Office Apps I know that aren't replaced anywhere else (linux, mac, OSS)
Maybe OS X Server... - LavaHot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To take a phrase from my favorite Marine Corps Drill Instructor, Apple's got a hard-on for these cards.
- schoate09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't get it, I ran Inventor on an 845G for several months until I got my new rig. It worked fine, for the huge workload .ipt, .ipn, and .iam files I made. It had 1 GB of ram. I really don't notice too much of a difference now.
- OwinC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I need one. Just to say I have one...
- SarahC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeah! That's what I thought too...
"128 cores with probably 64 shader pipelines in each! Wow! It must be on a rack or something!"
I opened the article, and it's just a re-branded NVidia 8800 with a few bells and whistles like better Open GL support. It's not 128 cores, it's 128 pipelines.... there's a difference! Though it is a very nice card, the titles misleading. -
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