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The New Nvidia 6800 Ultra DDL Graphics Card

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-does-it-mean-man dept.

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."

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  1. Worthless read by Achoi77 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Heh. After reading that interview I get the feeling that this guy doesn't know anything about the product he is selling. Generic one-liner answers that dance around the questions with emphasis on market speak. Here's an excerpt:

    GeForce 6 Series GPUs have the most advanced shading engines on the market. Compared to previous generation parts, the vertex and pixel shader engines on GeForce 6 Series GPUs have been completely redesigned from the ground-up. Pixel Shader performance is 4 to 8 times faster. Vertex shader performance is twice as fast. Performance numbers have been outstanding.

    Absolut (tm) Garbage!! Here's another, this time with the question:

    * Do you have any idea how performance compares on the Mac between the GeForce 6800 Ultra and the ATI 9800 Pro/XT card?

    GeForce 6800 Ultra represents the largest leap forward in graphics performance in our company's history. As expected, they are much faster than previous generation products from ATI. We will let the benchmarks speak for themselves.

    Talk about trash!! A simple NO would have sufficed. Looks like he's made the most of his Business-for-dummies Manual. Man, why am I so angry over this?

    1. Re:Worthless read by foidulus · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Talk about trash!! A simple NO would have sufficed. Looks like he's made the most of his Business-for-dummies Manual. Man, why am I so angry over this?
      Probably because he gets paid much more for spouting bs than any of us do for real work....

    2. Re:Worthless read by Exitthree · · Score: 4, Insightful

      While Apple does tend to make products that are often incompatible with older products, there is no way to make the 30" display compatible with older hardware since it requires a new port which isn't available on older products. And don't say, "Well, Apple should have stuck with the old port," because vanilla DVI doesn't support the resolution of the 30" display.

    3. Re:Worthless read by Exitthree · · Score: 3, Insightful

      VGA connections are prone to distortion. There is a reason the industry is switching to DVI (and subsequently DVI Dual Link). You are the first person I have ever heard suggesting that VGA would be preferred over DVI.

  2. usually good, but ... by for_usenet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm a heavy mac user, and I read this site pretty much on a daily basis, as the guy responsible for the site puts up a LOT of decent Mac hardware and software info on there. But this has got to be one of the most UNinformative, useless things he's posted. I know there's a desire for info about this card - but shouldn't we wait till some more detailed specs are released, or till someone has some actual silicon so benchmarks can be run ?

    Yet another example of "no news" being news ... As many other people have said, "Nothing to see here. Move along !!"

  3. Re:That was “interesting” by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The interviewer is not any better. I was particularly annoyed at this exchange:

    Mr Desai:
    * We are the first chip with an onboard video processor

    Interviewer's commentary:
    (Note: Some previous ATI cards like their AIW models have shipped with the "Rage Theater" video encoder/decoder chip on the card. It was first intro'd in 1998, and revised I'm sure since then. Of course the current generation of GPUs have more advanced features.)

    Now, how exactly is that comment relevant? Mr Desai claimed theirs was the first chip with an onboard video processor. Does the interviewer even understand the difference between a video card and its GPU?

  4. Re:Wow, what useless responses... by Achoi77 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Well, there was one question that he did give a precise answer to:

    * Does the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL have a low-noise fan?

    Yes, the GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL runs very quiet.

    I think this was the only question he was capable of answering.

  5. If you meant... by daveschroeder · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ..."the new ACD", as in "the new 30" Apple Cinema Display", ok.

    But if you actually meant ADC, or "Apple Display Connector", that is no longer used. With the new line of displays, Apple has (thankfully) gone back to standard DVI for the displays and for their future OEM video cards.

  6. Re:Annoying marketing regression by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yeah, because that .3" is a HUGE lie perpetrated by Apple, who obviously have a VESTED INTEREST! 30" is just a nice, round number. The fact that it's a little more than a quarter inch smaller than that is pretty piddling. Don't you have something more important to complain about?