2CPU.com » News » November 2008 » NVIDIA Breaks Visual Computing Barriers With First 4GB Graphics Card

Nvidia, the worlds largest graphics chip manufacture has just raised the bar again. The Nvidia Quadro FX 5800 series professional graphics solution. With a DRAM capacity of 4GB(4096MB), it's the only card on the market to pack this much memory onboard. Previously, Advanced Micro Devices launched the Fire GL 8650 with DRAM capacity of 2GB.

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#40072 Posted on: 11/18/2008 12:57 AM I'm assuming you need 64bit version of Vista because Vista wants to map the video RAM into system address space. Windows XP series might be able to cope but any app that needs more than 1GB per GPU core probably needs more than 2GB RAM (ie. >4GB, 64bit) for app data.

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#40073 Posted on: 11/18/2008 04:07 AM Yes but does it fold? 121 total Ghz, 304GB in total memory... Arch Linux - stable : 3930k @ 4.4Ghz, 64GB DDR3, 120GB Samsung 840, HX850 DAS - Norco 4020 - 20x Seagate 3TB, 1KW PSU FBSD 10 ZFS server - SM Chassis, SM X8DTE, 2x L5520 Xeons, 48GB Reg DDR3 ULP, IBM 5015 w/ 512MB DDR2 cache, RAID-50 - 42TB storage Dell C6100 - 4 nodes, 2 1.1KW psu's, 2x L5520s, 6x e5530s, 192GB reg DDR3 (48GB each), F@H, etc

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#40074 Posted on: 11/18/2008 04:49 AM I'd be curious to see two of these in a 32 bit system. I don't think that'd be possible...

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