Nvidia is releasing an $18,000 video card
09-15-06, 09:17 PM
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Nvidia is releasing an $18,000 video card
Nvidia's $18,000 video card
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. Who in their right mind would buy this?
As if PC gaming wasn't expensive enough, Nvidia have unveiled a graphics card that will be known to shooter fans simply as 'God'. The $18K Quadro Plex 1000. How's your e-penis now?
You could buy a pretty decent sports car for that kind of money. Or, according to Nvidia, you can have 12 mega pixel hi-def video, and a card (actually it's more like a series of cards) that will run every PC game due for release in the next century.
"According to Nvidia, a node can achieve up to 64x full scene anti-aliasing (FSAA), deliver a performance of up to 148 megapixels on 16 synchronized digital-output channels and eight HD SDI channels. The firm says that the fill rate reaches 80 billion pixels/s while the geometry performance is rated at seven billion vertices/s."
The cheapest model starts at $17,500, and it just goes up from there! When they're released in September, we'll probably give a few away. Or, maybe we'll buy a house instead!
The only problem with owning one of these cards is you'd need about 20 of the latest CPUs in order to feed it data quick enough that the CPU wouldn't become a massive bottleneck. Of course, they're designed for integrated graphics computers and engineers, not really gaming!
If anyone out there actually plans to purchase one of these suckas, we'd love to hear how many of your children you intend to sell in order to fund such a venture. Of course, we do not condone such things.
You could buy a pretty decent sports car for that kind of money. Or, according to Nvidia, you can have 12 mega pixel hi-def video, and a card (actually it's more like a series of cards) that will run every PC game due for release in the next century.
"According to Nvidia, a node can achieve up to 64x full scene anti-aliasing (FSAA), deliver a performance of up to 148 megapixels on 16 synchronized digital-output channels and eight HD SDI channels. The firm says that the fill rate reaches 80 billion pixels/s while the geometry performance is rated at seven billion vertices/s."
The cheapest model starts at $17,500, and it just goes up from there! When they're released in September, we'll probably give a few away. Or, maybe we'll buy a house instead!
The only problem with owning one of these cards is you'd need about 20 of the latest CPUs in order to feed it data quick enough that the CPU wouldn't become a massive bottleneck. Of course, they're designed for integrated graphics computers and engineers, not really gaming!
If anyone out there actually plans to purchase one of these suckas, we'd love to hear how many of your children you intend to sell in order to fund such a venture. Of course, we do not condone such things.
. Who in their right mind would buy this?
09-16-06, 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by kgrogers1979
Major . Who in their right mind would buy this?
. Who in their right mind would buy this?
Of course, they're designed for integrated graphics computers and engineers, not really gaming!
09-16-06, 01:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Joe Molotov
So...I'm guessing integrated graphics computing people would buy it in their right minds. Nvidia's Quadro brand has been around for years. It's always been expensive, and it's never been for gaming.
Of course, when you're rich, price doesn't matter. Hell, I'd get it if I were rich. No more video cards for a century? I'm sold.
09-17-06, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by darkside
Next century? I bet a $300 dollar video card made a decade from now will outperform it.
09-20-06, 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by pizzamousechips
What kind of graphic intensive work can you possibly do that needs a card that expensive?
Of course, when you're rich, price doesn't matter. Hell, I'd get it if I were rich. No more video cards for a century? I'm sold.
Of course, when you're rich, price doesn't matter. Hell, I'd get it if I were rich. No more video cards for a century? I'm sold.
that was done on ATI's FireGL, but same thing
10-02-06, 09:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Groucho
For $18,000 I demand a fucking holodeck.
