News - NVIDIA launches Quadro FX 5800 armed with 4GB of memory

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NVIDIA claims its latest workstation graphics card to be the "most powerful professional graphics card in graphics history".

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4GB on-board RAM....

I want to know what happens if you install it with a 32bit OS hehe

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Originally Posted by shaithis

4GB on-board RAM....

I want to know what happens if you install it with a 32bit OS hehe

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You only get to address half of it. And your applications have sod all RAM to play with. I'd like to see an application that will actually use that much video memory exclusively.

"ideally suited for oil and gas exploration, medical imaging, styling and design, and scientific visualisation", says NVIDIA "and also, Crysis at 1024 x 768 with full settings, if you disable anything running in the background"

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Originally Posted by Shooty*

"and also, Crysis at 1024 x 768 with full settings, if you disable anything running in the background"

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loooooool

But can it play solitaire?

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Originally Posted by Rob_B

But can it play solitaire?

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obviously not!

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Originally Posted by aidanjt

You only get to address half of it. And your applications have sod all RAM to play with. I'd like to see an application that will actually use that much video memory exclusively.

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Medical imaging is often done at a resolution that allows you to render separate cells in an organism. Rendering a medium-sized bone at this resolution could take up a few dozen gigabytes. Oh, and I'm pretty sure you'd like a decent 64-bit OS to do that ;)

""ideally suited for oil and gas exploration..." - because the fan fitted to it doubles as a handy helicopter to get you and up to 6 colleagues out to the rig? :P

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Originally Posted by nichomach

""ideally suited for oil and gas exploration..." - because the fan fitted to it doubles as a handy helicopter to get you and up to 6 colleagues out to the rig? :P

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Don't you hope that you find an oilfield to power the damn thing for twenty minutes or so?

OK scratch the power problem... it uses less than my 8800 GT :'(

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product...x_5800_us.html