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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. Just what I always wanted! by Jaysyn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    A video card I can't use on XP32 since it can't properly allocate that much VRAM & system RAM at the same time.

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    1. Re:Just what I always wanted! by IanCal · · Score: 5, Insightful
      If you're doing scientific computing requiring about 4 gigs of ram, and need the processing power of current-gen graphics cards then you should be able to figure out how to migrate from XP32 to 64 bit.

      That you are using an old operating system incapable of dealing with this new hardware is not the fault of nVidia.

  2. you're all confused by DragonTHC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't believe anyone claimed this was a gaming card.

    This is a scientific number cruncher. Its use is in visual computer modeling for anything from weather models to physics models.

    How about folding@home? this does it faster than any computer on the block.

    All of you kids making jokes about crysis are missing the point. This might run games, but it's a science processor first.

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