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The New Nvidia 6800 Ultra DDL Graphics Card
Dr. q00p writes "Since Apple doesn't offer much information on the new Nvidia 6800 Ultra DDL graphics card (and NVIDIA even less) which is required to drive the new 30-inch Cinema HD Display the readers of Slashdot might be interested to read a reply from Ujesh Desai, Nvidia's General Manager of Desktop GPUs, to a series of questions from Accelerate Your Mac."
nope -- the monitor is two TFT "panels" that are side-by-side. these panels normally come ot of the "panel machine" 4-, 6-, or 8-up in a sheet and are then sliced apart into individual displays.
what they've done here is left two stuck together.
check out the resolution -- 2560x1600. if you take two 1600x1280 screens, orient them vertically, and stick them together side-by-side, you get 2560x1600.
and now size -- a 21" 4:3 ratio TFT is roughly 16.8" wide x 12.6" tall. turning two of these panels on their narrow edge and joining them at a long edge yields a panel with roughly a 30" diagonal measurement (30.2 to be exact, but my original numbers weren't precise).
the card with two DVI outs is necessary to drive this thing because there are essentially two TFT panels to be driven.
Thank you very much for your reply. As someone who played around with OSX a little bit I should have guessed that. I'm still not convinced that OSX needs that much power to run well, but it's still valid reason.
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