blastarr
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NVIDIA Ships 128-Core Graphics Cards for High-End Film Editors, Graphics Pros: Apple "Excited"
- QuadroFX 5600
NVIDIA just cranked up its highest-end Quadro graphics cards a notch or two, rolling out three products, the NVIDIA Quadro FX 4600, Quadro FX 5600 (pictured above), and NVIDIA Quadro Plex VCS Model IV that the company says represents the biggest leap in performance for its graphics cards yet. One giant leap indeed, because these parallel processing monsters have the rough equivalent of 128 1.35GHz processors cranking away at graphics in a whole new way.
These cards have more circuitry than ever, with three quarters of a billion transistors on board, and NVIDIA says not only can they display larger graphics faster than ever but use a concept called GP-GPU, allowing general-purpose programs to run on the GPU instead of the CPU.
Sharing some of the same technology with NVIDIA's GeForce 8 series of consumer cards released last November, these cards are aimed at high-end film effects artists and oil and gas explorers, and maybe a few absolutely fanatic gamers. More info, pics and pricing, plus a tantalizing hint from NVIDIA about Apple's interest in this technology, after the jump.
These cards have a brand-new GPU architecture on board, representing a brand new approach to graphics, where NVIDIA goes away from the pipeline model and into parallel processing.
- QuadroFX 4600
Jeff Brown, General Manager, Professional Solutions Group at NVIDIA told us these new cards were four years in the making, and that NVIDIA spent half a billion dollars putting together this technology. He also gave us what might be a hint at what Apple has to show at NAB in April with its rumored workstations that are geared toward professional video editors and effects artists.
Said Brown, "Image processing is the fundamental algorithm set that video editing guys use, and traditionally that has been very CPU-centric, and now we're starting to see more and more image processing moving to the GPU. So folks like Adobe, Apple, Avid are excited about this concept. It gives them much, much higher levels of performance."
Expect to see those video editing giants, Adobe, Apple, and Avid, taking advantage of these graphics cards, perhaps showing systems involving the technology at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in mid-April. We'll be there to see what happens.
Meanwhile, these graphics cards aren't cheap, where the Quadro FX 4600 will retail for $1995, and the Quadro FX 5600 will run $2999. NVIDIA didn't say what its highest-end Quadro Plex VCS model IV will cost.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripher...ditors-graphics-pros-apple-excited-241478.php
Olhem com atenção para o cooler da primeira imagem.
Concerteza já repararam que é mais comprido do que o da 8800 GTX, e tem algumas diferenças de pormenor adicionais (heatpipes mais compridos, 6 saídas de ar junto à back-plate em vez de 5 ou 4, etc).
O PCB em si também parece mais comprido, aderindo ao form-factor habitual das workstations gráficas (a R600 que temos visto, tal como a 7900 GX2, usavam esse tipo de PCB).
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Renderings em tempo real? 
são 12 ou 24 chip de memória (12 do outro lado do PCB)
Mas os softmosds acabaram nas 6800 baseadas nos NV40 e agora vem bloqueadas por hardware 
