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NVIDIA's New Pro Graphics Quadro FX 3000 Reviewed

Posted by CmdrTaco on

SpinnerBait writes "NVIDIA recently took the wraps off their next generation Workstation Graphics card, the Quadro FX 3000. This card is based on the same general GPU architecture as the NV35 but optimized for CAD and DCC applications. This article over at HotHardware shows what the new Quadro FX 3000 is capable of and it makes a strong showing. However, you've got to pay to play (or work) on this card, that's for sure."

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  1. crazy by Boromir+son+of+Faram · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can't believe how powerful video cards are getting. Is it just me, or has the computer industry gone a little too far with the whole "bigger is better/more-more-more" consumerist mantrae? I mean, currenty video cards render full color frames faster than the human eye can perceive. A cheap PC has enough RAM to store the entire contents of the Library of Congress many times over. Most commodity hard drives are in the 100+ GB range. And yet the hardware producers continue churning out bigger, faster machines, as if anyone will ever need a 10GHz CPU. When will enough be, finally, enough?

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    1. Re:crazy by Verteiron · · Score: 3, Interesting

      You may not need a 10GHz CPU. I know I don't, at least, not yet. But as interfaces improve, as software becomes more complicated, hardware like this may well a requirement. After all, monitor images are still nothing like as detailed as a printed page, and even a very high-end monitor has only a fraction of the resolution that can be produced by a $100 printer. It's going to take serious hardware to acheive that kind of image clarity in real time. 10GHz CPUs may be just the beginning.

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    2. Re:crazy by 2nd+Post! · · Score: 2, Interesting

      When someone designs something that uses all of it.

      I own a Mac, so the situation is slightly different, but as a user of iMovie, iDVD, and Final Cut Express, I can use *all* the ram, CPU, and HD space I can get. Two hours of footage take 30gb of raw storage. Rendering 5 minutes of video takes 30 minutes. iPhoto takes 1.2gb of ram.

      So for me, it's not enough. I need more.

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