News: 1GB GDDR - now from NVidia

[Cooper]

NVidia recently announced new QuadroFX series card which utilizes 1GB onboard memory and consums up to 135W.

http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/30917/quadro_5500_fx.jpg

Official Press Release (http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_30917.html)

[physics_geek]

Wasteful. Any word on MSRP?

[Cooper]

A waste of silicon!

Now tell this to all those CAD etc lovers :D
I bet they`d ask for more

[VulgarHandle]

Now tell this to all those CAD etc lovers :D
I bet they`d ask for more


as a residential cad draftsman for the 3rd largest home builder in the u.s., i'd LOVE TO HAVE THIS CARD!!!!!!!! oh, and jason's 2x opty 285's, and 8gigs of ram


edit: wait, 2 in sli please!

[Mr. Popo]

Quadro FX 5500 GX2 2GB GDDR3? :D
Now thats a greate idea!
I think I'm gonna mail nVIDIA! :p:
Quadro Quad-SLi setup is the future... :cool:

[nn_step]

Sexy..

[biohead]

damn I've liked those coolers when I first saw them... make it copper and bang, best gpu aircooler.

[coldpower27]

Blah it seems it's 1050MHZ GDDR2 1GB.....

[Cooper]

Blah it seems it's 1050MHZ GDDR2 1GB.....

It`s sad so on nvidia website. And b/w is equal to quadro 4500 - so it`s 1100MHz. GDDR2 surely gonna reduce total cost of the card and nobody gonna OC it :D

[coldpower27]

It`s sad so on nvidia website. And b/w is equal to quadro 4500 - so it`s 1100MHz. GDDR2 surely gonna reduce total cost of the card and nobody gonna OC it :D

http://www.pny.com/products/quadro/fx/5500PciEx.asp

33.6GB/s = 1050MHZ on 256Bit

http://www.nvidia.com/page/qfx_uhe.html

33.6GB/s again..

Do your math 1.1GHZ = 35.2GB/s.

[Pinnacle]

MOre info

http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/1198_large_quadro_x2.png

[OmegaMerc]

damn I've liked those coolers when I first saw them... make it copper and bang, best gpu aircooler.

Not to mention rip the entire card off its base :D

[nn_step]

Not to mention rip the entire card off its base :D
not unless they add extra supports for it :p:
1GB Graphics ram.. so how long before it is required to game? :rolleyes:

[Drunner611]

Mmm, that will take a while to digest. A whole Gigabyte....

[T2k]

1GB? It's great if you're a compositor and using Fusion 5 often...