The Most Expensive Graphics Card

I never knew graphics cards could be so expensive. This is for the highest of high-end applications. The Nvidia Quadro Plex 1000 graphics units are not really for gaming, mind you, but more for workstation uses.

Via GameWorld Network:

You could buy a pretty decent sports car for that kind of money. Or, according to Nvidia, you can have 12 mega pixel hi-def video, and a card (actually it’s more like a series of cards) that will run every PC game due for release in the next century.

“According to Nvidia, a node can achieve up to 64x full scene anti-aliasing (FSAA), deliver a performance of up to 148 megapixels on 16 synchronized digital-output channels and eight HD SDI channels. The firm says that the fill rate reaches 80 billion pixels/s while the geometry performance is rated at seven billion vertices/s.”

The cheapest model starts at $17,500, and it just goes up from there! When they’re released in September, we’ll probably give a few away. Or, maybe we’ll buy a house instead!

I hear you actually need the processing power of 20 of today’s latest CPUs to get the most out of the Quadro Plex. Otherwise, your CPU would actually be the bottleneck to great performance.

Sports car? I don’t think so. But that’s still pretty darn expensive.

August 4th, 2006 Posted by J. Angelo Racoma in Nvidia, Graphics cards, News at 3:42 pm 1 Comment »

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