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NVIDIA Corp. unveils Quadro FX 5800 graphics card

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SANTA CLARA, California -- NVIDIA Corp. has unveiled the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800 card. According to the company, the Quadro FX 5800 graphics card offers unprecedented performance and scalability to rapidly visualize and interpret massive datasets that until now were unattainable on a workstation graphics board.

The card offers:
•Interactive 4D modeling with time lapse capabilities
•Massive memory bandwidth of up to 102 GB per second
•Fill rates that exceed 52 billion texels per second and geometry performance of 300 million triangles per second
•Support for next-generation OpenGL and Microsoft DirectX 10 applications
•Advanced multi-system and multi-device visualization environments with Quadro G-Sync II

The Quadro FX 5800 GPU features true 10-bit color enabling billions rather than millions of color variations for rich, vivid image quality with the broadest dynamic range, the company says.

11/10/2008

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