Nvidia Quadro FX 4800 Pro Goodness
Nvidia has launched the Quadro FX 4800 professional graphics card, featuring 192 processor cores and 1.5 GB of memory.
Nvidia has been hard at work lately pushing out new high-end products for the professional market; last month releasing the Tesla personal supercomputer, as well as the world’s first 4 GB graphics card. While not quite as exciting as those releases however, Nvidia has started off December with the launch of its new Quadro FX 4800 ultra-high-end professional graphics card. The new graphics card features 192 CUDA parallel processor cores, 1.5 GB of GDDR3 frame buffer memory and 76.8 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Designed for applications such as digital content creation and high-performance computational analysis, the Quadro FX 4800 seems to be the replacement for the aging Quadro FX 4600 graphics card, both of which are currently priced at $1,999. Loaded with 192 parallel processor cores though, the new Quadro FX 4800 has even more processor cores than the Quadro FX 5600, while having a lower price and requiring less power. According to benchmarks located on Nvidia’s website, the Quadro FX 5600 and Quadro FX 4800 perform identically.
| Processor Cores | Memory Size | Memory Bandwidth | Memory Interface | Power Consumption | Price | |
| Quadro FX 5800 | 240 | 4 GB | 102 GB/s | 512-bit | 189 W | $3,499 |
| Quadro FX 5600 | 128 | 1.5 GB | 76.8 GB/s | 384-bit | 171 W | $2,999 |
| Quadro FX 4800 | 192 | 1.5 GB | 76.8 GB/s | 384-bit | 150 W | $1,999 |
| Quadro FX 4600 | 112 | 768 GB | 67.2 GB/s | 384-bit | 134 W | $1,999 |
| Quadro FX 3700 | 112 | 512 MB | 51.2 GB/s | 256-bit | 78 W | $799 |
The Quadro FX 4800 comes equipped with two DisplayPort connectors, a single Dual-Link DVI connector and has support for DirectX 10, OpenGL 3.0 and Shader Model 4.0. The card fills up the space of two slots, consumes 150-watt of power and assuming that a system can handle two of these cards, there is support for SLI frame rendering.
As far as I know the only dif is the 5600 has 2 dual link DVI ports. Whoopdie freakin do.
5800= gtx 280 (with more video ram)
4800= gtx 260 (with more video ram)
4600= 8800gtx (same memory, and shader count is the same @ 128 not 112 like the article says)
3700=8800gt=9800gt
only thing different between them are drivers and the price tag. be aware thaat you can find all cards save for gtx 280 with same/more memory than the quadro model has.
Read this:
http://www.nvworld.ru/docs/sqe.html
They are the same things, you're just paying for drivers.
silly thing calling me a fool in matter you clearly you know nothing about. You should have at least researched a bit before calling my post wrong.
Antilycus
Wrong. 3D DCC programs cant use 30% of modern GPU power. Well, that’s also wrong. Its not that they cant use it, its that people using 3d don’t use it. 8800+ cards are capable of displaying 100 million polygons in real time, its just that most of us, 3d users, don’t need them to do as many.
Only trouble with this is if you’re using non quadro card in non DirectX program. OpenGL is hacked in non quadro drivers to work at minimal speed. Since most new programs have DirectX only poor Mac/Linux users are stuck in need of a quadro- but they too can simply softmod their card to trick drivers into thinking that it’s a quadro and boom- all performance gained even under OpenGL with a non quadro card.
How is this possible, you might be asking yourself (wavebossa)? Simple- both cards use the exact same chip- see my post above for true exactness.
Tindytim
Exactly. You can get more ram on partner made modification of the base line chip. I’ve seen 8800gts being sold with 2gb of ram. Still, its true that I haven’t seen any with 4gb, but you’re HIGHLY unlikely to need that much video ram. More so when you consider current CPUs bottlenecking even 1gb ram cards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Quadro
excerpt:
FX 5800 | GT200GL | Chip also used in GeForce GTX 280 (240 shaders)
Hmm. I can't seem to find the guide I was using.
But just check the specs of the cards, they should be the same, or very similar.