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World's First 2GB Graphics Card Is Here

Posted by timothy on from the way-too-much-overkill dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TUL Corporation's PCS HD4850 is the world's first graphics card to offer on-board 2gig video memory. The card is based on RV770 core chip, with 800 stream processors and 2GB of GDDR3 high-speed memory." That's more memory than I've had in any computer prior to this year — for a video card.

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  1. Re:UNIX did it a decade ago by Fujisawa+Sensei · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Didn't the Silicon Indy (or was it the Onyx) have a 2 GB video card? Glancing over the specs, the SGI Onyx4 could have up to 8 GB of graphics memory. Note that these machines are on the order of a decade old.... Granted, not exactly home gear, but still this isn't the "World's First 2 GB Graphics Card". So in fine tradition... another thing that UNIX had already done 10 years ago. (Hmm... maybe it was closer to 15....)

    IIRC the Onyx with the RealityEngine2 could have up to 2 Gig. I do remember the InfiniteReality could have 2 Gig on board.

    PC technology, bringing 10 year old technology to today.

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  2. Obligatory: by lordofwhee · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But can it run Linux?