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.
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.
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Using search strings, I’ve checked for the other “Most Expensive Graphics Card” and what did I found? Might be less than what you’ve indicated (a whooping $17,500).
Quadro FX 5500, on the other hand, might belong to the Nvidia-series of high-end, high-powered graphics card that you woudn’t mind buying a diamond instead. The cost? An estimated street price of $2,499 as to date.
September’s almost drawing near where the Quadro Plex 1000 will be available (as Nvidia said so) for purchase. You bet, we all have to stay tune about this.
Comment by Gil H. Villamater, Jr. — August 22, 2006 @ 10:48 am