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.
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I'll have to compare this to the Quadro CX - just because Nvidia and Adobe push the CX as "THE accelerator for Creative Suite 4" doesn't mean it's actually the best card for the job.