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NVIDIA Makes First 4GB Graphics Card

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the making-everything-else-cheaper dept.

Frogger writes to tell us NVIDIA has released what they are calling the most powerful graphics card in history. With 4GB of graphics memory and 240 CUDA-programmable parallel cores, this monster sure packs a punch, although, with a $3,500 price tag, it certainly should. Big-spenders can rejoice at a new shiny, and the rest of us can be happy with the inevitable price shift in the more reasonable models.

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  1. what a revolution by jollyreaper · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does this mean we can finally run Crysis now?

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    1. Re:what a revolution by dreamchaser · · Score: 5, Funny

      Oh come on, you can run Crysis with half that number of cores and only 2 gig of video RAM. This card is obviously being built because of the impending release of Duke Nukem Forever.

  2. no it's not by hcdejong · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... "the most powerful video card in history", it's "the most powerful videocard yet".

    [/pet peeve]

    1. Re:no it's not by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      I dunno, those Germans made quite a powerful video card back in the 1940s.

      It certainly had more power than those steam-powered video cards the French made in WWI.

  3. Re:misread the subject by Bromskloss · · Score: 4, Funny

    I read that as 4*MB* video card.

    I fucking hate the beginning of work weeks.

    Working hard, I see.

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  4. Re:Power != memory by LearnToSpell · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's times more powerfull and flexible than CUDA.

    I like how statistics are so meaningless we're not even putting the numbers in anymore.

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