http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/ Engadget Comments for NVIDIA delivers 1.5GB QuadroFX 4800 workstation graphics card http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=649
http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/11/adobe-friendly-nvidia-quadro-cx-gets-reviewed/]]>Dec 21st 2008 1:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/
I know, but can you handle maturity? Apparently not. It's old.]]>Dec 21st 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 22nd 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/
-Gletob
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I think that's only true for AutoCad (I only know this because he mentioned it) but apparently they use another software that does use GPUs for rendering (don't remember the name, or if he even mentioned that one to me), and they did the price/performance evaluations according to my source, and the GTX 260s were what they needed.

I don't claim to now any of this stuff, merely reiterating what a professional's (target market for the Quadro cards) opinion was.]]>Dec 21st 2008 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 1:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/
Bu you can pick up 5 GTX 280s for the same price, right?]]>Dec 21st 2008 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/
You just pick and choose portions of comments that fit your argument?]]>Dec 21st 2008 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 12:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 12:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/
Put this in the MacBook Pro? They could put the MacBook Pro in this!

Also, does anyone else find it humorous that graphic cards keep getting bigger while everything else is getting smaller?]]>Dec 21st 2008 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 5:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/
Would seem impressive if I liked twitch FPSs]]>Dec 21st 2008 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/
Folding@Home > Crysis]]>Dec 21st 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/just to be clear, these cards, 4800 & 5800 are only a repackaging of tech which is optimized for OpenGL.
(as opposed to DX10 or whatever as games are)

There is NO new or higher end tech included in these that make them different then the gaming solutions.
They are generally the highest quality chips of the production runs, but they are not special fancy in anyway else.

In fact if you look around the web you can find out how to turn your gaming nVidia card into Quadro if that is what you want.

As far as Autocad and other precision engineering software, its not that there are specific hardware limitations (although some of older quadros had weirdo hardware drm on them to force people to pay for them), its the Quadro professional drivers that are signed.
These drivers include specific error correction and QOS guarantees, which are important to make sure that there is no integrity problems in your work, generated by possible visual & processing bugs in the processor or driver.

Unlike games which generate countless errors and visual defects while playing, engineering models cannot afford to have these.

nVidia has ALWAYS ripped people off with these cards.
They are not even truly halo models like in the car world. (a Mercedes McLaren SLR, is a halo car for Mercedes-Benz.)
They are just tuned versions of there mainline processors.
don't be fooled, really nothing special here.
nVidia = Scammers

]]>Dec 21st 2008 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/has double the memory.

if you want to save some money Run GTX 280 or GTX 260 in SLI and you can Do a Bios MOD so it Runs like a QuadroFX 4800.

Review of Nvidia Quadro FX 5600

http://www.beyond3d.com/content/reviews/40/1]]>Dec 21st 2008 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/They are not even truly halo models like in the car world. (a Mercedes McLaren SLR, is a halo car for Mercedes-Benz.)
They are just tuned versions of there mainline processors.
don't be fooled, really nothing special here.
nVidia = Scammers"

Well not really...
Agreed, these cards are 98% the same as the gaming counterparts they are based on. The only real significant difference on the hardware side is that these cards are double precision processors are opposed to single precision.

However, You are really paying for the custom drivers here. These drivers are specially optimised for programs like Avid Combustion, AutoCAD inventor, Cinema 4D, 3DSMAX etc,,, I use Avid Combustion on my home PC and I have a 7900GTX in my PC. I hacked the installer for the Quadro Drivers so that it recognised my 7900GTX as its counterpart Quadro card. The difference in those apps was really quite amazing. I mean render times were the same since thats done on CPU but the preview was vastly better.]]>Dec 21st 2008 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Dec 21st 2008 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/Consider the cost of down time of a) seismic survey vessel (cost approx $150,000 - $200.000 per DAY), b) real time drilling operations, c) oil and gas exploration ... and cross plot that with the cost of Geforce & Quadro line graphics cards.

In short : The price of these graphics cards are *non issues*. If the seismic vessel's PCs crap out then they could buy 60 of these cards JUST to cover *one day of operation*. (Now, seriously, Nvidia Quadro's are used all over the world in vessels for advanced analysis and real time visualization of terabytes of data. Not a Geforce to be found in sight.)

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"Professional" graphics cards are the biggest ripoff ever! It's an industry wide collusion. Software vendors can just as easily tune thier software for DX or the card manufacturers could write better drivers for OpenGL, but such is not the case. Instead, somehow its worth 5K to piss on a videocard. Engineers don't need big expensive video cards regardless of how big or complex their assemblies are. They just need to learn how to use their software.

My prediction. ATI is gonna fuck nVidia up in this market by substantially undercutting them.]]>Dec 22nd 2008 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/21/nvidia-delivers-1-5gb-quadrofx-4800-workstation-graphics-card/
I am pretty sure we agree.
They are literally charging you + $3000 extra for higher quality OpenGL drivers and the higher quality parts in their processor bins; specifically so that the previews are precise and without the flaws the gaming drivers tend to have since their focus is speed, not visual quality.
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