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Comments on: Nvidia unveils new professional graphics card

Nvidia introduces the Quadro FX 5800 graphics card that's arguably the most power professional card on Earth.

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by scythie November 12, 2008 6:31 AM PST
You can install drivers that will make "professional cards" run like your regular gaming cards.
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by laser21 November 12, 2008 7:55 AM PST
If this would support SLI, I would intantly buy 2 :-D
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by mmntech November 12, 2008 10:34 AM PST
These cards are intended for vary high resolution rendering (such as in medical imaging), which is why they have so much RAM. They're not ideal for gaming since they're tuned for rendering accuracy over frame rate. I figure this card is probably based on the Geforce GTX 280 GPU. You can buy two of those for under $1000 and run them in SLI with 2gb of RAM. That amount of memory is plenty for the resolutions gamers play at. Geforce cards can be modded (via firmware) to Quadros but that voids the warranty.
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by Masterofallz12 November 12, 2008 7:39 PM PST
Sooo... Is this the card that can handle Crysis?
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