NVIDIA’s Quadro FX 5800 - World’s First Display Card with 4GB Memory

NVIDIA Corporation, the world leader in visual computing technologies, unveiled the most powerful professional graphics card in graphics history — the NVIDIA(R) Quadro(R) FX 5800.

The Quadro FX 5800 has advanced features to allow massive datasets to be viewed beyond traditional 3D enabling professionals to make fast and accurate decisions. In addition to the massive amount of RAM, the FX 5800 offers up to 240 CUDA programmable parallel cores. The card supports interactive 4D modeling with time-lapse capability. Memory bandwidth is up to 102 GB per second and fill rates exceed 52 billion texels per second. Geometry performance is reported to be 300 million triangles per second. The card also features 10-bit color.

The FX 5800 supports both Open GL and DirectX 10 applications. Multi-system and multi-device virtualization is supported with Quadro G-Sync II. NVIDIA says that the levels of performance the FX 5800 offers is needed for demanding environments like oil/gas exploration, medical imaging, and styling/design applications.

Memory bandwidth climbs from 76.8GB per second to 102GB and lets the card reach its peak 52 billion textured pixels per second fill rate as well as raw geometry performance of 300 million triangles per second.