Nvidia have officially announced a new version of their Quadro FX 4800 graphics card developed specifically for use with Apple’s Mac Book
Pro which comes complete with a 3-pin stereo connector promising ‘true stereoscopic imaging’.
“Some of the world’s most challenging visual computing problems are solved on the Mac platform,” said Jeff Brown, general manager, Professional Solutions, NVIDIA, who introduced the Quadro FX 4800 graphics card for Apple’s Mac Book Pro. “The Quadro FX 4800 provides the power and speed to meet these demanding requirements.”
“Some of the world’s most challenging visual computing problems are solved on the Mac platform,” said Jeff Brown, general manager, Professional Solutions, NVIDIA. “The Quadro FX 4800 provides the power and speed to meet these demanding requirements.”
This particular iteration of the Nvidia Quadro FX 4900 Graphics Card naturally shares the same specifications of its PC based counterparts in offering 76.8GB/s memory bandwidth, 192 stream processors, 1.5GB frame buffer and maximum power requirement topping out at 150W - as well as the aforementioned 3 pin min-din connector for stereo glasses support - and is set to commence shipping from May for a cool $1,799 a pop.
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 Worlds Fastest Graphic Card was launched by AMD (ATI); comes with 2.4 teraFLOPS of processing power.
These cards comprise the ATI Radeon HD 4800 X2 series, combining two ATI Radeon HD 4800 series GPUs with a more advanced cross-GPU connection based on the PCIe 2.0 standard, plus two gigabytes of memory.
X2 series perfectly suited for the most demanding games.
Based on an advanced 55nm design and leading DirectX(R) 10.1 support it delivers engineering elegance and the industry’s most compelling feature set.
It is immediately available from e-tailers worldwide priced at USD $549 SRP, while the ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 is scheduled to be available in September at an estimated price of USD $399
Key Features
- 2 GB of GDDR5 memory
- 2.4 teraFLOPS of GPU power
- DirectX 10.1
- 1600 stream processing units
- 2 x 256-bit memory interface
- 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and high performance anisotropic filtering
- Dual mode ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU support for highly scalable performance
- PCI Express 2.0 support
- Dynamic geometry acceleration
- Game physics processing capability
- ATI Avivo HD video and display technology1
- Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) for Blu-ray and HD Video
- Accelerated Video Transcoding (AVT)
- DVD Upscaling
- Dynamic Contrast
- Built-in HDMI with 7.1 surround sound support
- Integrated DisplayPort2
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