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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. That was “interesting” by sebi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Reading that "interview" I can almost see the lawyer going over every answer and neutering it before it went out. Either that or Mr Desai is the most boring and lifeless fellow in the history of electronics.

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    1. Re:That was “interesting” by Peter+Cooper · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Clearly not, as the interviewer asked if nVidia would be introducing any retail cards for the Mac. nVidia doesn't make cards, but GPUs, as Mr. Dull-ai explained.

  2. Wow, what useless responses... by Goronmon · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As expected, they are much faster than previous generation products from ATI

    Thats basically like saying "Hey, this new souped Mustang is much faster than a 1992 Taurus!"

    I mean, it better be whole hell of a lot faster than the old cards for the huge premium you are paying right now.

  3. Mac user's number 1 hardware question by gsfprez · · Score: 3, Interesting

    why can't we buy and use "PC" Video cards? What is it that makes vendors have to build EPROMs differently (Different?) for the Mac vs. Windows machines for the exact same card otherwise?

    It reduces our choices and makes $100 cost $400.

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    1. Re:Mac user's number 1 hardware question by Quobobo · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Yeah, but Mac users are gouged on the prices, for just a different firmware (hence the many guides to flashing "PC" video cards for use in Macs). It makes no sense to charge so much more for simply having some different data on the card.

    2. Re:Mac user's number 1 hardware question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      What distortion? Yes, there are a whole lot of PCs, and none of them use FCode as they should, and as every other platform interested in cross platform PCI compatibility does.

      Did it occur to you that the fact that the x86 platform has such a huge marketshare is the reason why they don't support the standards? They can drive up the cost of everyone else's peripherals just by using an incompatible ROM.

  4. Re:Set up by afidel · · Score: 2, Interesting

    No, there are the same number of cables(2), it's just that more of the pins are actually used for digital data. You might run into a problem if a cheap cable was made assuming single link DVI but any cable which follows the spec should work fine. The interesting part is that there is no KVM capable of switching dual channel DVI AFAIK.

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  5. Re:Flamebait... by Carnildo · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And even if you don't care about gaming at all, this is the only card on any platform that supports the 30" cinema display, so if you want one of those you need the card anyway.

    The new 3DLabs Realizm cards have a DDL connector. I wonder if that means they can support the display.

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