NVIDIA announced its latest Quadro graphics card today, called the FX 5800. The card goes into the Quadro line, which features some of the most expensive graphics cards to roll off big green's assembly lines.
The FX 5800 keeps up that tradition, coming in with an MSRP of $3,499. That much loot buys you the industry's first graphics card to use 4GB of graphics memory. In addition to sporting more RAM than any two of NVIDIA's gamer-oriented graphics cards, the FX 5800 offers up to 240 CUDA programmable parallel processing cores.
The folks in Santa Clara say that the card is capable of interactive 4D modeling with time lapses. It has a memory bandwidth of up to 102 GB per second, and fill rates for the beastie exceed 52 billion texels per second. NVIDIA claims a geometry performance of 300 million triangles per second.
You might wonder where this sort of performance would be needed. The card is aimed at those involved in oil and gas exploration, medical imaging, and styling/design fields. Thilaka Sumanaweera, CTO of CyberHeart, gives a good example of how the power of the FX 5800 can be used. Sumanaweera said in a statement, "The advanced textured graphics capabilities of the Quadro FX 5800 are enabling CyberHeart to provide 3D radiosurgical target visualization and definition tools for the purpose of treating cardiac arrhythmias. Our applications are processing very large data sets acquired by the state-of-the-art 64-slice CT scanners using respiratory- and cardiac-gating. The Quadro FX cards provide us with the extreme bandwidth necessary to support our cutting-edge technology, and essentially, save lives."
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