SoftwareNvidia Quadro FX 4800 Pro Goodness.
Nvidia has launched the Quadro FX 4800 professional graphics card, featuring 192 processor cores and 1.5 GB of memory.
Nvidia has been hard at work lately pushing out new high-end products for the professional market; last month releasing the Tesla personal supercomputer, as well as the worldò€™s first 4 GB graphics card. While not quite as exciting as those releases however, Nvidia has started off December with the launch of its new Quadro FX 4800 ultra-high-end professional graphics card. The new graphics card features 192 CUDA parallel processor cores, 1.5 GB of GDDR3 frame buffer memory and 76.8 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Designed for applications such as digital content creation and high-performance computational analysis, the Quadro FX 4800 seems to be the replacement for the aging Quadro FX 4600 graphics card, both of which are currently priced at $1,999. Loaded with 192 parallel processor cores though, the new Quadro FX 4800 has even more processor cores than the Quadro FX 5600, while having a lower price and requiring less power. According to benchmarks located on Nvidiaò€™s website, the Quadro FX 5600 and Quadro FX 4800 perform identically.
Processor Cores Memory Size Memory Bandwidth Memory Interface Power Consumption Price
Quadro FX 5800 240 4 GB 102 GB/s 512-bit 189 W $3,499
Quadro FX 5600 128 1.5 GB 76.8 GB/s 384-bit 171 W $2,999
Quadro FX 4800 192 1.5 GB 76.8 GB/s 384-bit 150 W $1,999
Quadro FX 4600 112 768 GB 67.2 GB/s 384-bit 134 W $1,999
Quadro FX 3700 112 512 MB 51.2 GB/s 256-bit 78 W $799
The Quadro FX 4800 comes equipped with two DisplayPort connectors, a single Dual-Link DVI connector and has support for DirectX 10, OpenGL 3.0 and Shader Model 4.0. The card fills up the space of two slots, consumes 150-watt of power and assuming that a system can handle two of these cards, there is support for SLI frame rendering.