NVIDIA's Tesla GPU-based high-performance computing workstations and add-in cards have been on the market for
a whole year now, and to celebrate, they're getting birthday cake, balloons, and an upgrade to
GT200-based chipsets. Like AMD's recently-announced
FireStream 9250, the new T10P processing units are capable of breaking the teraflop barrier, up from the first gen's paltry 518 GFlops, and they're up to 240 cores from the first gen's 128. You'll have to shell out to get all that horsepower, though: the entry-level, 900GFlops C1060 PCI card will sell for $1699, while the four-GPU 1U S1070 blade will sell for $7995 for two PCIe-interface version or $8295 for the single PCIe connect model. The standalone Tesla workstation has been discontinued, as customers were increasingly buying the cards, so it looks like those are really fast collectors' items for now. So, who's going to be the first to add one of these bad boys to the
Engadget Folding@Home team?
[Via
Tom's Hardware, thanks Matan]
posted June 16th 2008 3:20PM
but can it run crysis?
yes, doom aswell...it will even steal your blow up doll...can we let this joke die already?
On a serious note, is any special hardware needed to put one of this bad boys into your rig or will it slot into any old PCIe Slot?
I'll be sure to keep you posted ... can you give me your full name, address, phone number and SSN - I need to run a credit check to see if you are eligible for the results.
You're about 5 months too late, time to shut the fuck up.
at least you didn't say first
Did you notice there arent any video outputs on the card? How would you run any game?
No it can't. As of now the GT200 top end card the GTX 280 is SLOWER than the 9800GX2. Even when overclocked from 602MHz to 700MHz it fails to dethrone the almighty GX2.
And I ordered a GX2 *just* before the GT200 reviews came out today, thinking that I'll have to settle for second best etc cos I cant afford the GTX 280. Turns out I got the best after all.
@Kurian:
WRONG!
The GTX 280 is actually better than the 9800GX2. You obviously haven't read as many reviews and news as you say.
Now onto the matter of this Tesla card..
They are sort of a waste of money. Because it's not better hardware, just better software. Your paying for special drivers that make it work better for 3d modeling programs and the such. This can be seen with older versions where people were able to take the firmware from the Tesla's and put them on GeForce cards. Bringing pretty much the same performance gains in programs.
Kurian-
Keep in mind the 9800GX2 has a couple minor caveats being a 2 GPU card.
-More power consumption
-More heat production
-2-GPU is SLI, meaning:
---Some games don't support it (not many, anymore)
---Random, wonky compatibility issues
---Inconsistent performance in some games
-Maximum multi-card performance will be less than GTX280, as you can only SLI 2 of them instead of 3.
But given all that, it's definately the best performing card right now, and it is cheaper than the GTX280.
Another thing to note is drivers...once GTX280 drivers mature a bit, I would think we'll see close to a 5% improvment across the board, and up to a 10% on some games.
Omg morrons, this card is ment for HPC, you can't do graphics stuff on it. It's meant to do calculations like a CPU.
@Those bashing the GX2.
Its not better in every test, but given the price difference with on average the SAME performance its DEFINITELY the better buy.
kakkoii:
u mean ppl haxed quadro firmware onto the geforces.
not tesla.
What are the ports in the top right corner? Display port or HDMI?
There are no display ports. No ports except for power.
The point is to add processing muscle for demanding applications.
If that was a serious question and you were referring to the upper right hand corner of the picture displayed in the posting, those would be power connectors.
The not so serious answer is those are displayport ports, because all the cool new shit connects inside your case where its complete nonuser friendly use.
(Assume the role of an Apple user)
Hey guys, will this work on my Macbook Air?
so... how are you less annoying them? i'll give you this, you're even more consistently a tool than clak. at least he's kinda funny.
Apple users usually bring ignorance and superficiality with them into a conversation.
On the flip side, at least PC enthusiasts can carry on a technically illuminating conversation if the situation calls for it.
This time however, I felt like shedding some light on the typical Apple user because only 2 days ago, one such user actually posted on the topic of the ATI/AMD 3870 GPU and whether or not it would actually work with their Apple laptop, in all earnest.
It's those very types of responses which warrant the derision and contempt that they receive to offset their unwarranted smugness -- in light of ignorance of course.
who gives a shit what "they" do? i'm calling you out on your overbearing, ubiquitous obnoxiousness, plain and simple.
I'll shed some light on the typical PC user:
Errr, why doesn't this card fit into my computer?
No way I'm touching THAT (true story, it involves a stick of RAM)
Now, what I'm trying to point out is that there will always be people who do not know shit about computers. So going "LOL LOOK AT THAT IDIOT HE TRY TO FIT DESKTOP GRAPHICS CARD INTO LAPTOP LOL!" and laughing at him because he has a Mac is just stupid. There are inept PC users too you know.
Oh and in case you haven't noticed: You're making yourself look like a complete dumbshit.
Kizorblade,
You can't be serious, you are basically rebutting my comment with a rather baseless one.
Asking whether or not a card will fit into a computer is a VERY legitimate concern.
If you happen to own an 8800 GTX or a 9800 GTX or a 9800 GX2, then you would know exactly why that question is asked.
People have gone through the trouble of actually modding their cases with dremels in order to make room for those cards.
For you to equate the intelligence of a PC user asking a legitimate question such as "will this card fit into my machine" with the intelligence (or the lack thereof) of a Mac user asking if that very same card will fit into their laptop is downright disingenuous.
Not even a worthy attempt, try again.
i bet Jen-Hsun wil cut his cake with a ati FireStream 9250
Join your Folding@Home team? Sure! Just give me the $8295 and I *promise* I'll join.
Last time I checked, you couldn't run folding@home on Nvidia GPUs, only ATI...
There is a folding client for NVIDIA cards coming, not sure how it will take but it can't be long anymore.
Wrong again, you can in one week. :)
Wrong again, what's that supposed to mean lol?
Can somebody explain why these exist when CUDA will run on any current GeForce card? I'm not being a sarcastic prick either I'm seriously considering buying into this GPU for floating point calculations to do some fluid dynamics modeling and since the drivers for CUDA are available for any card and this card is not any more powerful than the GTX280 then what's the point? Also anybody know what the deal is with Snow Leopard's OpenCL vs CUDA? Are nVidia and ATI both planning on supporting this platform in lieu of their own respective ones? There's a lot of extremely promising work that can be done GPGPUs but before I start adapting tons of code for a platform I'd like to know that that platform is going to be around for a while.
@decapitator:
How about 4gb of ram and faster clocks?
What's the point of spending so much on this when you can achieve similar performance with the 9800 GX2?
remember fastra? it cost those guys less than 4000 euros to make, and yet it had 8 GPUs.