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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's the Motorola 68000 or 68k not 6800 by mosb1000 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think you mean the 68000 series, as in 68020 / 68030 / 68040. No biggy, just an extra zero. Man, remember when you had to look for a computer with a floating point coprocessor listed as a feature? I used to have a Performa 630 without a FP. You would not believe how slowly things render when the FP is emulated. I eventually "upgraded" to a PPC 601, but that actually seem to slow the OS down because it had to emulate a lot of the old 68000 code present in Mac OS 7.5 at the time. Now I feel old and I'm only 22.